What kinds of successes does Anderson cite when demonstrating to the reader the emotional progress she had made by her eleventh grade year?

In order to underscore the tremendous damage that a victim of sexual violence undergoes, Anderson uses basic activities and tasks to convince the reader that she was doing better in her eleventh grade year than she had in the previous two. Rather than naming great big successes, Anderson states, “I remembered to return library books,” “I got a job and wasn’t fired,” and “I wrote down important things on a calendar” (84). These seemingly small tasks were important milestones in Anderson’s journey toward healing.