Anna Blake Chapter 1 Analysis

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Chapter One: Underlying Art After all of the madness and drama, that was happening day, after day, everyone was not in the right place. Numerous amounts of people did not know how to feel about Palmer or just everyone around them. For Anna, things were different. Her life is just a swirl of pastels on the floor. However, throughout the problems Anna goes through,we can somewhat see glimpses of the importance of art to her. “There is a reason why paintings are better than photos. It’s because they are closer to true human vision… A painters brush can actually come closer to that truth…” (Blake, 25). From the beginning of the book, we see that Anna has already developed a liking for art, specially panting. We later find out that art really …show more content…

Towards the very end of the book, one more art project is done by Anna, connecting what we learned from the beginning, to the end. “When I started this project, it all made sense to me. I wanted to say something about our narcissism, about how the value of the self-image has changed so much with our generation.” (Blake, 130) From Anna's struggle with real life conversations, she was able to let up on these struggles, and focused on putting her feelings somewhere she can truly express …show more content…

“Like I said, Nikki was confused when I abandoned her. Rad, on the other hand was angry.” (Blake, 12) You look at Rad and see she was always more popular, constantly taking to guys, buying the latest, “just in” lipstick and being just Radical. When you see Anna walk down the halls you can just tell people are just constantly judging her. “...and the whole world remembered that i’m socially irrelevant.” (Blake, 1) Rad in everyone’s eyes, is the stereotypical perfect high school girl. Anna on the other side with her antisocialness, not always being the ideal her, and constantly stressing herself out, makes more room for the difference between them. They start off cold, and warm up in the end, soemthing many do not take note of. We also see - towards the middle of the book- they become closer. “Rad tenses next to me as we finish reading it aloud… ‘You okay?’” (Blake, 103) Before, Rad wouldn't even think of a word to say, but now she's comforting Anna through a pretty hard time in her

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