Lo, the protagonist of our story has extreme problems with ocd or obsessive–compulsive disorder.After her brother Oren went missing her problems began to worsen slowly more overtime. Needing something to help occupy her time and help get over this loss, she decides to help solve the murder of a stripper named Sapphire. After the police put a miniscule amount of work into the murder, she knew she had to do this herself.We can see that she will do anything by this quote on page 19 when she states “ ..But It’s not enough-not for me. I can’t more. I need more” when she was thinking about the lack of effort the cops put into the case On her journey she meets several new friends both from school, and some trying to find inspiration for art in a trashcan. Even when hit with the harsh realization that she could be killed when doing this she stills goes out of her way to solve this case. Before she could even begin her research she realized that this would be a long and hard journey. She realized this on page 5 when the book states “A bullet. Which means gun” which is …show more content…
Flynt, a homeless teenager from Neverland that falls in love with Lo the instant they laid eyes on eachother. Over the course of a 300 page love story which worked out in the end with her asking him to go to prom with her. We can see this on page 314 when she says to him “‘Well, actually, tonight is...prom’.I squeeze his hand-quickly-three times.’And I want to take you. As my date.’” After that he says yes! And in the end her OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) ended helping her become just who she wanted to be. We learned early in the book that she had extreme problems with her OCD. She constantly needed to be surrounded by numbers such as 3, 6,6 ,9, and 12. She also used the phrase “tap, tap tap, banana” to comfort her in times of need. She doesn’t like to admit it but she is beautiful in her own way. And finally at the end of the book she admits that she
...through and seen as a child, she really overcame the battles of the community as an artist gathering bits and pieces of memories from the trash just to make something out of it. But, to Saar it meant the world to her to have that doll that was repaired for her on Christmas. She really didn’t see it trash but as treasure in her eyes.
Nevertheless, her attempts are futile as he dismisses her once more, putting his supposed medical opinion above his wife’s feelings. The story takes a shocking turn as she finally discerns what that figure is: a woman. As the story progresses, she believes the sole reason for her recovery is the wallpaper. She tells no one of this because she foresees they may be incredulous, so she again feels the need to repress her thoughts and feelings. On the last night of their stay, she is determined to free the woman trapped behind bars.
through character development, despite it being in the last moment of the book itself, as
her voice, then Daisy’s potential selfhood is finally betrayed by the world of the novel.
She always wanted to be the center of attention, she was prejudiced and believed things should stay the same, and she was very selfish. While she thinks she’s above everyone else, she feels that the world revolves around her.
she discovers what it meant for her to be attractive growing up. She was constantly
The obvious theme of the story is crime and mystery, however as a reader when reading beyond, it is realizable this story is not only based on finding the true evil. This novel consists of another theme which is decision-making, and friendship. In this novel, it is conspicuous the theme is crime due to the doings of the characters and the direction the author is leading the readers. Nevertheless, Collin has to make some difficult decisions in order to save himself as well has his new friendship with Alyssa. From Colin's perspective, we come to realize Alyssa is a beautiful female and him, as any young teenage boy feels once they get to know a beautiful girl, wants to help her out and become her Romeo. In this situation, Collin manages to give a hand to Alyssa often enough, at this point Alyssa begins to trust Collin furthermore. Alyssa now reveals to Colin as to why she vandalizes the posts he’s been cleaning daily. Following this event, Colin has to make a crucial decision, Colin has to reveal to the police the doings of the gang, however, all at once he has to make sure the gang does not find out Alyssa went to the cops or else Alyssa’s brother will face an unwanted life or death situation. This situation may not be something all teenagers are facing or even most, but this scenario does reflect upon other situations teenagers at this present time have to face. Being caught in between doing the right thing and helping your friend is a common situation most teenagers tend to face at this moment. Most teenagers tend to head in the route of their friend, however, this plot clearly portrays there is always a way around the obstacles. Collin instantly thought of a plan to help his friend and do the right thing. Alike this event, teenagers need to come to learn to think outside of the box, figure a way out and not narrow the
She is thirteen years of age who, at the start of the book, finds out that ...
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her husband, begins to have mixed feelings and, as a result, begins to realize who she truly is.
An example is her torture during the majority of the book. In 6th grade she went to her friends party, and to her astonishment, a couple began making out in the closet. She called her mom to tell her what was going on and her mom told the mother ...
She can be jealous and deceiving at times. Her jealousy of the other selected girls is very poignant when she sees that Maxon is giving them more gifts and affection than he is to her. The text in the first book states that, “. . . pointing to two beautiful hair ornaments that were covered in what looked like thousands of dollars’ worth of precious stones . . . This set the room into a new flurry of excitement and disappointment, and my newborn confidence disappeared” (pg. 259-260).
She shopped then got to the checkout while she was checking out the bag boy dropped a mayonnaise jar that instant she fell in love. Then he did not say anything only looked at her as he was packing bags and admired her confidence and everyone's around him. He went into a brown depression for the rest of
She hides her actions and attempt to justify them until she is expose by the letter from the paper regarding her novel entry. She is ignorant to her unrealistic judgements about Cecilia and Robert and attempts to fix the problem when she made it worse. She realizes her mistake when the letter questions the conflict of her novel and she witnesses her attempt to hide the true horror behind her decision. While she attempts at hiding her problem in the draft, she made it more noticeable to the paper and drain the luster of the plot. Her realization of her ignorance honor the lovers’ romance and made her strive to atone her former
the end of the novel as both the women in his life have other men at