Lara Jean is a teenage girl in her Junior year of highschool, she is just an innocent girl that lives with her dad, and two sisters, Margot and Kitty. They help Lara Jean through all of her problems, but her older sister Margot is moving to Ireland for school, and Lara Jean will hardly ever see her. Margot is like a mother to Lara Jean, giving her advice, comforting her when she needs it, and Lara Jean needed a mom. Her mother passed away when she was little and she’s always wondered what she would think about here now. Her mother was Korean and Lara Jean resembles her perfectly, as he dad tells her everyday. She is just trying to survive high school with all of the drama, but it seems a though the can get tangled in if she hangs out with the wrong people. …show more content…
So after a fight Lara Jean writes a note to Peter admitting that she missed him and everything she feels about him, which is a lot. After a New Years Eve dinner with her family she goes over to his house to give him the letter but he doesn't seem interested so Lara Jean was just going to leave it alone. After some talking with Peter, they work it out, but Peter is the type of guy who just likes to go with the flow, and Lara Jean is the exact opposite. As long as Peter and Lara Jean are together, she wants nothing more, she thinks her whole life is perfect, and she can just live like this
The story began pleasant and straightforward. With Lara Jean, as the main character, being a hopeless romantic who write letters to her crushes but never sends them—rather, she places them in her special hatbox. However, things got out of hand when the letters were mailed out of nowhere without Lara knowledge. What’s worse is that one out of the five letters were about her older sister, Margot’s, ex-boyfriend, Josh.
Throughout her childhood, Jeannette is faced with instability. Her parents had a very unique style that could be classified as “hands off” parenting. For example, Rose tells Jeanette that “If you don’t want to sink you better learn to swim… That’s one lesson that every parent needs to teach their child” (Walls 137). Instead of growing up in a traditional house, Jeannette and her family constantly moved from town to town. When her mother got bored, or her father got in too many bar fights, Jeannette was forced to pick up her life and move to another small desert town. Due to her nomadic lifestyle, Jeannette refrained from establishing deep friendships amongst her school and
Jeannette’s parents tried to embrace in their children, to live life to its extent. As you can imagine, the parents lived mostly on the wild side. Rose Mary, a drug addicts who worries about herself constantly. She endlessly searches through garbage and panhandles for money, usually forgetting everything that is occurring at the exact moment. If
1. In the novel, The Glass Castle, fire plays an important role. Not only does fire play a physical part in Jeannette Walls’ life, but it also plays a mental role. In the way beginning of the novel, Jeannette explains an incident she had as a child.
First of all, Jeannette is a hard worker, unlike her parents. For example, she got a job at thirteen years old, and after working hard on her school’s newspaper junior year, she went to New York her senior year at a public high school that offers internships instead of classes.
Unlike her father and sister Jeanette shows us that it is capable to reach your full potential regardless of what you have gone through. Even through the hardships of her childhood Jeanette is set on moving to New York with Lori and becoming a reporter. By putting her past aside she is able to achieve this and finally reaches her full potential. “I still went into the office in the city once a week, but this was where John and I lived and worked, our home—the first house I’d ever owned. Mom and Lori admired the wide planked floorboards, the big fireplaces, and the ceiling beams made from locust posts, with gouge marks from the ax that had felled them.” Unlike any of the houses she lived in as a child, her current home goes above and beyond. If you compare Jeannette to her sister Maureen it’s clear that becoming all that you can be depends solely on yourself. Maureen went through the same experiences as Jeanette, yet Jeanette is the one who decides to do something with her life, while Maureen continues to let her life be the same as it always was.
Firstly, Every hardship and obstacles she endured throughout her childhood helped Jeannette to become a successful adult.Jeannette’s parent were very unpredictable, her mother was self absorbed in her hobbies, and her father was an interminable alcoholic. Even though her parent neglected and gave less attention to Jeannette,
Jeannette was always dirty from her adventurous because she lived in the desert for some time and would chase around the wild animals and insects. Jeannette was always traveling with her family and had no control of her life. Her parents were selfish, law breaking people who couldn't keep a job. Jeannette was young and didn't understand why her parents
Jeannette’s personality shows the most with her independence and maturity at such a young age. An early example of this is when she tried to cook a hot dog on the stove and accidently burned herself when she was only three years old. As Jeannette ages, she begins to see the world in brand new perspectives because of her experiences with different lifestyles and environments, such as living in the desert with hot temperatures, to living in the poorest neighborhood of Welch, to finally living in the ever-moving city life of New York City.
Rayona is in a way lost and can’t seem to find her place in the world. She thinks about herself in the way that she thinks others think of her. She is fifteen years old at the time and does not have a lot of sense of her self. Rayona is half African American and Native American, which makes her think she’s different from others and makes her have a low self esteem. She struggles with her identity and physical appearance. Another thing that makes it difficult for her to find her true self is that she lacks information about her heritage. Her dream is to have a “normal” life, meaning to have a functional happy family and to be able to fit in. Rayona feels like a real family is the opposite of what she has. She goes through a series of events and learns a little about her self in each of them. Rayona is
She doen't think she is not a typical everyday girl she is a girl who has to move alot and everytime she moves there would always be another one who came with them so totally there were six in her family, her mom,dad,carlos,kiki,her sister nenny and herself. The house on the mango street is theirs because they don't have to pay rent or anything and everything is theirs except for the garage her dad is trying to get. Her parent lwys dreamed of having their own house where piped were running and nothing was broken and there would be three bathroom with a big yard. But the house on mango street looked small and tight. She didn't expect that but she didn't have a choice. she hopes she has the house that her parents dreamed to live
The main factors in this book were family life, schooling, government and the occasional sports. Family, for Adeline (the main character) was not very good. When Adeline was just born her mother died and her older siblings blamed her for her mother’s death. From the start, her siblings had already disliked her. When Adeline’s father remarried (to a younger lady named Niang) they had two children.
Jeanne is the youngest out of the family, and also her father's favorite. She observes and says things about her family’s experience. In the beginning of the book she is an ignorant seven-year-old, but as she gets older and matures she loses her ignorance and comes to finally understand the nature of camps, her family, and herself. Jeanne’s father,known as Papa, is a first-generation Japanese immigrant
Providing the two heroines with strong and engaging personalities, the novel portrays the life of two young Chinese girls, who because of historical events and family secrets, have to grow up faster than what they had planned. The book delivers emotional themes that are powerful yet familiar, and is written in a compelling manner.
The resentment within the young girl’s family is essential to the novel because one can understand the young girl better as she makes her decision.