Summary Of The Novel 'Jailbait' By Leslea Neman

In the novel “Jailbait” written by Leslea Neman is about the teen violence. The narrator developed the protagonist, Andrea Robin Kaplan, in the term of a teenage point of view. It provides the readers more empathy the teenager’s behaviour. Leslea Neman done an awesome piece of writing. The significant theme of it linked to the idea that the teenager pays more attention on the boy over on the school’s life. Andrea Robin has no friends, unattractive, not very smart and her only goal is to get through high school with the least amount of humiliation possible. However, one day, as she meets the man, Frank, who is a lot older. He makes Andi feel beautiful and special. Also, Andi is the girl that is trying to find herself and be happy with someone else, so he starts talking to a man. She feels very special and satisfying.

I have only read this book by Leslea Nema and I have not read any others by her.

I enjoyed how the book was written. I liked how the narrator makes me wonder how girls can be attracted to men that they do not even know. In my opinion, some point of this novel is very interesting but some points are too disturbing by the sexual teenage. The narrator provide the consideration point to the teenagers that the relationship between the boys and the girls do not important as much as the relationship between friends. In the Jailbait, Andi’s friends always ask her about her life and even consider her life more than her boyfriend. This makes me think about some people do not care about their friends, but when they get in trouble, friends are always there. Friends always talk to you, hug you, and make you do not feel lonely, whereas, the relationship of boys and girls can break up whenever two people are not understand or just feel bored with each

other.

This book had a lot of ups and downs for me. I cannot decide if I really liked it, or if I really hated it. I have reached up to the quarter to four of the novel. The story is quite dark and disturbed. Andi is only 16 years old, but she has sex with the man. She does not even know his surname or phone number. The story got to the significant point pretty fast, as Andi get into a strangers car, let someone pressure on her into sex. In my opinion, this is exactly what you should not do in real life. It seems like the main character just feel lonely, and wants to try something exciting. This makes me think about in the society, there are some people that have no common sense. They may just want to do something exciting or special in their life, but this can lead to the negative impact on the family of those people. The family may be disgraceful that their children do something unmoral, having a sex with the boys and not going to school.

I find this book is completely predictable from the title of its – Jailbait, which means a young woman considered in sexual terms but under the age of consent, but entirely unbelievable. The end of the book just kind of slaps me in the face. Leslea Nema provided the consideration point, which is impacted on the society at the following years. I would like to recommend this book to the teenagers and some of parents. Teenage may have the benefit to read the book, as the people should do something that has common sense, recall to the parents, the future and how this going to impact on their own.