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Cara Sierra Skyes has a hard role in Perfect by Ellen Hopkins. Cara is in love with her boyfriend Sean, she describes him as fun, good-looking, adventurous, and a jock. Everyone expects the perfect girl to go out with the perfect guy. Caras mom has always taught her, appearances are everything. So, Cara held onto that. She is a pretty and popular cheerleader. Cara holds a special trait, she is actually really smart and has a scholarship lined up at Stanford. Problem is, Cara has a twin brother, Connor. Connor is super suicidal and has tried many times to kill himself, sadly one day he succeeds and leaves a girlfriend and his family behind in his high school years. So everything is definitely not the idea her parents have of “perfect”. At Least she tries. Cara is in love with her boyfriend Sean but she starts to spark an interest for a girl at the ski slopes one day and she becomes very confused. Between dealing with all her school activities, her grades, and her brother that she worries about all the time, Cara is struggling to keep her life together and be …show more content…
“perfect.” She has lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Cara is very much in “love”. She dates the most popular guy in her school, Sean O’Connell. He is well known jock. The idea of a perfect relationship in high school is the cheerleader and star jock. Sean wants perfect. He lost both his mother and his father at a young age. Sean loves Cara but he knows that she is a little on edge about her feelings and is going through a lot. His goal is to be better than anyone at baseball and get a scholarship to Stanford to follow Cara and stay with her forever. So, he decides to take steroids and can’t always control his anger which just outs more stress on Cara. Cara Sykes is a very indecisive person about love anyway. Even though she is with Sean, something happens that changes everything. She meets Dani, a lesbian. They begin to hang out and Cara begins to question herself. Even though she loves Sean, she feels the same with Dani. Sean knows there is something wrong but can’t quite figure it out, he definitely doesn’t think that it is a girl in the way. Sean wants everything to be perfect. He isn’t expecting Cara to act this way. She doesn’t want to lead Sean on, so she ends the relationship very confused. Sean descends into a depression. The steroids symptoms just get worse and begins to become overly obsessive over Cara. She ends up having to get a restraining order on Sean, she had no other choice. Cara is expected to be “perfect.” Her parents expect her to pick up the lightweight of her suicidal brother.
She has to keep her grades up to hold her place at Stanford. She is a cheerleader, theater, honor choir, student council, and many other activities to keep her status. Not only is she smart, she is pretty. Her parents want her to be perfect. Perfect grades, boyfriend, friends, sport player, and a perfect life. Cara can handle pressure, she is very good at it. Her parents are wealthy and tell her that if she tries her best, they will reward her for that. Cara begins to have doubts about her responsibilities. She knows that her and Sean breaking up will only cause her to become a lesbian. Her parents won’t be too happy about that. Cara might not even be accepted into her family. According to her parents, a lesbian daughter is not their vision of perfect, smart cheerleader, going to
Stanford. Cara Sykes has a twin brother, Connor Sykes. He is suicidal. He tries to kill himself many times before it actually succeeds. Connor is in love with his girlfriend, Jenna. JEnna knows that he is sucia but decides to try to help him rather than leave him. Cara and Connor’s parents decide to put him into a mental hospital and on medication until he can control himself. He became suicidal when everyone put pressure on him. Cara gets the awful call one day that her brother has now passed away. Connor got released from the mental hospital with great signs of improvement. He was gone the next day. Connor jumped off a huge cliff and died instantly. He sent his family's emotions off the cliff with him when he died. Everyone is so upset. His family s crushed. They knew times were hard but he was doing better. Connor and Cara are seniors, months from graduating. He had a life to look forward to. Tragedy struck once and for all. Connor Sykes was dead, and his family and friends were crushed.
In Don't you dare read this. MRS.Dunphy is a popular book written by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
A character that was admirable in the novel “we all fall down” is John. John is the father of Will who is the main character, they spend nearly the entire story together looking for a way out of the world trade center during the 9/11 attacks. During the story you learn that John is very smart, brave, and respected. These are all characteristics which play a crucial role in saving lives such as his co-workers and a random lady they find on the way named ting, but mainly in the ending John and Will successfully escape.
“To climb…you have to be completely selfish”(pg.182). Though it may not always be true, to some degree it is. But it’s not just when you’re climbing, every single action that you take could be the difference between trust and suspicion, between death and life, between rising glory and simmering rage. People tend to be self-centered all the time, and sometimes, it really is the appropriate time to be selfish. On the other hand, it’s not always the best choice to be so selfish.
Jennifer Saake is the daughter of Ralph and Betty Camp. Jennifer was born in 1972, after her parents struggled with infertility issues. Saake spent her childhood years on the mission field in Japan.
The book Blind, written by Rachel DeWoskin, is about a highschool sophomore named Emma, who went blind after being struck in the face with a firework. When she first lost her sight, Emma was placed in a hospital for over 2 months, and once she was released, she could finally go home again. DeWoskin uses the characterization of Emma throughout the beginning of the text to help the reader understand the character’s struggle more. Especially in the first few chapters, it was difficult for Emma to adapt to a world without sight. For instance, DeWoskin writes, “And sat down, numb, on our gold couch. And tried to open my eyes, rocked, counted my legs and arms and fingers. I didn’t cry. Or talk” (DeWoskin 44). As a result of losing a very important scent, she’s started to act differently from a person with sight.
The Power of an Author Authors have the ability justify the worst actions. Authors have a way of romanticizing certain situations in order to convey a specific message. A good author has power to influence the reader into believing whatever it is the author wants. When it comes to the story of Hannah Dustan, authors such as John Greenleaf Whittier have romanticized her captivity story along with the actions she took throughout her journey. Introducing a character that will be seen in the story is one of the most vital parts when creating a piece of literature.
Clarisse is a very smart and thoughtful character. She isn't stuck on materialistic things like other people in their society; she enjoys nature. Some personality traits would be confrontative/extroverted, knowledge-seeking, scatterbrained, curious, and knowledgeable. Because of these things, she is considered crazy and is an outcast: "I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. Isn't this a nice time of night to walk?" (Bradbury 5).
In the short story, “Until Gwen” by Dennis Lehane, it starts off with the main character named Bobby who is getting picked up by his father from prison with a stolen Dodge Neon. His father wasn’t alone, he brought himself a company and it was a hooker named Mandy. We got a sense of who his father was, a “professional thief, a consummate con man” (647). We don’t know why he was in prison until the rest of the story slowly reveals the flashbacks he has with his girlfriend Gwen and the incident prior of going to jail. Bobby has no sense of who he is or where he is from because there no proof of record of him such as a birth certificate. After meeting Gwen, his life has changed and felt the sense of belonging into the world he is living in. Bobby’s
A teenage girl, away at boarding school, decides to experiment with her sexuality. Popular among the boys, she soon finds herself in many unrestrictive, lust-filled sexual encounters. The conflict of the story emerges with her inability to find emotional fulfillment in her promiscuous affairs. Further, she is unable to reconcile her distorted belief that females are obliged to physically satisfy males against the empty and hallow feeling her profligate lifestyle creates within her. As a result, the teenager, along with many of her female peers, feel depressed and desolate.
Yes, when the character entered the stage, she appeared to have a life off-stage. The first time we meet this character, she has a black eye and is wearing combat boots, tights and a crop top.
“Later, with Mom drinking so much, all Kenny had was me. I wanted to tell him that I did something in the war” (Myers 61). The story known as Fallen Angels, written by Walter Myers, is a book about the struggles of the Vietnam War as a United States army soldier. Even through the struggles of war, Richard Perry, the protagonist, has something to fight for. He has his little brother Kenny Perry. Kenny is a defenseless, strong, not very skilled.
In the realistic fiction novel Ellen Foster, written by Kaye Gibbons, a young girl named Ellen Foster yearns for a loving family and a better life after enduring a tremendous amount of abuse and loss. Throughout the novel, Ellen exemplifies resilience by making the most of difficult circumstances and finding ways to rise above hardships. Of all of the qualities that Ellen demonstrated during the hardships she faced, resilience was the most valuable to her future success, because it enabled her to develop a strong sense of identity and bounce back from adversity.
At first, she struggles with accepting herself. She kisses her best friend Irene when she was twelve, then questions whether or not there is something wrong with her. Without her parents to assure her that her feelings are not a “sickness” or “sin” like she believes they are, she constantly feels guilty about every encounter with another girl she has (99). After a while, she realizes that there is nothing wrong with her, and she begins to embrace her sexuality. She develops a crush on her friend Coley, and word gets around school without Cameron knowing. She is talking to her friend Jamie at prom, and the topic of her sexuality and what people think came up. Cameron worries that everyone is being judgemental, so she talks to her prom date Jamie about it. Instead of being supportive, Jamie tells Cameron to “keep on with the Coley Taylor think awhile longer and see what happens,” illustrating that Jamie feels as if Cameron’s crush is stirring up drama (155). At this point, Cameron realizes that although she may have learned to accept herself, others have not. Her friends and classmates are very judgemental, and they tend to talk about her behind her back. Cameron’s problems are made worse when
My book that I have chosen is “Perfect” by Ellen Hopkins. The main characters are Cara Sykes, Kendria Mathieson, Sean O’Connell, and Andre Kane III. Throughout the book it shows the different path each charters take for perfection. It also shows what the meaning of perfect means to each character. The book begins with Cara Sykes she has a twin brother Conner Sykes who has attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest and was admitted to Aspen Springs because of their parents unrealistic expectations and their very controlling mother, her parents just thought conner wanted attention. To Cara you can be perfect on the outside but on the inside you can be very ugly. Conner suicide change everything for cara. Rumors has spread all around school about conners attempted suicide . When he was at home there was someone to split the pressure of their parents with. Cara is dating Sean O’Connell which is the perfect athlete, very adventurous and very good looking Cara seems to have the perfect life, she is going to stanford and had great grades. She was raped by Sean and tries to convince herself that she said “now” when she actually said “no”. When she breaks up with him, he post mean things about her on online and
Suicide is a very dark topic that is covered very thoroughly in this book. Hannah Baker is not able to save herself in the end, but hopefully this book can shine a light on and spread awareness to the issue of suicide, and help people know that every life is precious an every life matters substantially, and that there is hope along with people who truly care. In this journal, I predicted that Clay would help Skye, questioned why Justin and Hannah didn’t say anything, and connected Hannah Baker to Taylor