Characters In Eleanor And Park

Eleanor and Park is a fiction novel by Rainbow Rowell. In this story, the characters, Eleanor and Park, have many differences on the outside, but on the inside, they are more similar than they appear. Just by looking at them, anyone would be able to tell that they come from two completely different households as Park lives in a rather wealthy, loving household, while Eleanor lives in a poor, dysfunctional household. Though their home lives are worlds apart, they do find things in common with each other such as their love for comic books and music. So, they are different because of the dissimilar households they live in, yet they are similar because of their common love for comics and music.

As a girl growing up around a group of bikers, boys and two parents who listened to eighties hair bands and metal, you wouldn’t think that I read or was read to frequently before starting school. I pursued in reading quite often, actually. When I finally started school, I had the tendency of keeping to myself and staying quiet. There never have been very many friends in the picture of my life. I learned at a young age that there often are going to be cliques, even when you’re an eight year old in girl scouts. I stood out in more ways than one, but for now I’m only going to elucidate why reading is so salient to me.

The book “Eleanor & Park” was written by Rainbow Rowell and was published in February 2013 by St. Martin’s Press. Rainbow Rowell is an American author who writes young adult novels. It is a romance novel between two misfit students in 1986. The novel is portrayed from two different viewpoints, from Eleanor’s and Park’s who live in Omaha, Nebraska. Eleanor was a 16-year-old girl with big red curly hair and big body, she has pale skin with dark eyes. Park was a 16-year-old boy who is half Korean with nice black hair and had an average body, not ripped nor skinny. The love story was unusual because not only the main characters have contrast look but their social and family life is different too. This essay will provide summary of the book “Eleanor & Park” and provide the response focusing primarily on bullying, domestic abuse, and child abuse from all the chapters in the book.

When I was younger, the amount of obligations upon me fewer and less likely to affect life in the long term, it was far easier to pursue my passion for fiction. School consumed less time, and the classes were introductions to various principles rather than in depth study. The books contained within the library of my elementary school weren’t great works of literature either. They were simple stories, with simple characters and events, but I loved them anyways. These simple things made sense, a comfort blanket that I simply had to reach into a basket on a shelf to find. When library time rolled around every week, I always managed to find three or four new ones to take home, and then read them all within a day or two. I had never been a particularly athletic child; I had the time and the will to devour as many stories as I possibly could.

Anytime she reads an innovative book, she wants everybody else to experience the same story she adored. As a result, she is always lending out her books to her friends. Anyone who needs a dystopian or romantic book could probably find it at her house; she is identical to a miniature library. Many people her age despise reading because they think it is just uninteresting, or extra work. Hannah’s acts of sharing her books have turned people from book haters to avid readers.

The reader wants to live a life in the real world without as many rules and be able to live the way they want, so when the reader reads a book about kids or a man breaking the rules or living a life without rules it intrigues the reader into wanting to read more and that is how it draws them in. The reader finds themselves reading about what they want their lives to be like. When Robert Warren says, “Only then will it satisfy our deepest need--the need of feeling our life to be, in itself, significant.” He states that when people read

It may be cliché, but books have always held a spot close to my heart. When I was three I had a book called Bitsy Witch that went wherever I did. When I was seven, my mom read a chapter of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone every night. In middle school, I worked my way through the entire children’s section at my local library. In high school, I took every English class offered, and when I entered college I to compromise with my family that I would also pursue a pre-professional program. My time outside of class was spent on my pre-professional degree until, my senior year in college. I took two classes that focused on children’s and young adult texts. Before those classes, I hadn’t realized that specializing in Children’s literature was

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Welty at one point describes how her mother loses herself in her imagination while reading books (878). The influence of books in both Welty and her mother’s childhood is especially present throughout the passage, but now it is a rare occurrence to see a child reading a book. Creativity and the use of imagination is arguably one of the most special thing a child has. Reading, being read to, and even looking at the pages of books as Welty did in her youth allows for inspiration to flow in ways technology cannot compare

I am very similar to the character Park, from Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor and Park, because of his love for music, his quiet nature, and a similar experience of becoming friends with a new kid. Thought the book Park uses music as an escape. During the bus ride to school, he listens to music for, "drowning out morons at the back of the bus" (Rowell 8). Like Park, music also acts as an escape for me. Whenever I am having a rough day, or I want to relax, I listen to music. Park and I also have a similar taste in music. This quote is used to describe his love for music, "He had an endless supply and an insatiable appetite for punk music" (Rowell 529) I believe this quote can also be used to describe my love for music because I can never get enough of it.

Eleanor, a character from the book Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, is a very complicated character. Her seemingly pessimistic and self-conscious approach to life can seem strange or even incomprehensible, but when her character development and past experiences are more closely considered, these views are much easier to understand. Her views are affected by three major factors: her family’s financial status, her abusive home life, and her endurance of constant bullying. While there are multiple other motivations behind her perceptions, these three factors all help push her to the state of internalizing much of her personal life, keeping it away from individuals she finds herself closest to, including her boyfriend Park.

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Many different people come away from reading Eleanor and Park with different options of what the main message of the book was, but one theme sticks out to me the most. The theme that sticks out to me the most is struggle gets better with the right person by your side. In the story all of Eleanor's life was dealing with struggling one way or another, from financial issues to being kicked out of her home for a year by her step-father while her mother ended up lying to her about when she would be coming back for her. Her abusive household and her nonexistence relationship with her Biological Father were also big impacts to her struggles. Her life just seemed to get by and she just went on day by day because she had to, not because she wanted

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