Katie. Com Analysis

Katie.com is about a girl who realizes the horrors of the internet. The first few chapters described her life leading up to meeting Mark. A guy who would eventually cause a lot of trouble in her life. In the first chapter, she described her life until age 13. She started off describing her town as, “the richest town in the richest state in the country.” She said there were no fast food restaurants and every house was two stories with wood siding. Everybody who lived there was rich, and the people who stood out weren’t the pretty ones, but the average looking. Her feelings about her town were, “I have a love-hate relationship with the town of New Canaan. I love it because it is beautiful….but after everything that happened to me when

She wrote how she accepted the image of beauty as the one she saw on magazine covers; being beautiful meant blonde, perfect hair, slim, and great teeth. She came to think if you were beautiful success came to you, and if you had success you made yourself beautiful. She read every magazine she could learn from and took their lessons. After she gave a detailed explanation of what beauty was, she went to describe her routine to be “beautiful.” She said she was not beautiful but she still put time and energy into her looks. She wouldn’t spend more than two minutes in the shower and would avoid looking at herself in the mirror. Afterwards, she would blow-dry her blonde hair and part it in the middle. She then described how she dressed, and where she bought her clothes from. She tried every day to wear a different outfit for a whole year with no

She practiced several hours a week, and over the years her coaches started depending on her to win. After she described her swimming she described her life with her friends and how she only had one, Karen. Karen had more experience than Katie with dating. Katie did not do the kind of stuff the other girls her age would do. Katie described her idea of a perfect family as one who likes to spend time together, has a strong belief in God, they are “good,” they don’t swear, and they do not say they hate anyone. She imagines them having a family portrait above the fireplace, being intelligent, athletes, and have a lot of home-cooked meals. Her family is not like this. Her mom works all the time and her dad left before she could crawl. Now she has three sisters and a stepfather, David. Her older sister, Abby, and she were a lot closer when she was 13 than her and Carrie. She and Abby did a lot of stuff together including going to New York City and Starbucks. She would sometimes be compared to Abby and when Abby went to a private boarding school the focus shifted and she was compared to Carrie. Katie was smarter, but Carrie was a better swimmer. One situation that was different between her and Carrie was Carrie lived with her real dad. When Katie was young her mom married David, Carrie’s dad, and Katie felt as if David was not a real father to her. She felt this way because her and David never did