The key idea of the text is that friends are important because they

they help us through tough times and are always there to back us up or tell us when we need let loose

Have our back if and when we need them no-matter what, can put rumors behind them because you shouldn't believe in what other people say that your friends said if he/she is your true friend believe in him/her, not other people who could be jealous.

Explanation:

d. pushing his plate away from the edge of the table idk what the other guy was trying to

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.