JUST LISTEN by Sarah Dessen

In my last post I was discussing how people are judged by their appearance and their family, and as read further into the book i notice that this would be an occurring theme. Not only with the main character, Annabel, but with many miner characters as well. In the book Annabel meets Owen for the first time, he is defined by others as hostel and very dangerous. Because of this no one speaks or looks at Owen. No one Knows him. Except Annabel, she finds that he is a different person than the one described by other observers. While in the past she was doing the same thing to him, judging by his actions. So in the part where she meets his sibling, she prepares herself for a goth girl/boy in all black. So while reading this I was wondering was it good for her to be expecting the worse, even if she has never meet him/her before. Even though she begs people not to do the same to her. She forcefully wants to be a different person from her family. Is she not seeing that other than her world, that other people go through the same thing.While in Annabel's mind Owen is a nice Music love ling guy, she is afraid that he might judge her for what he think she is. Because of these accusations she has lost all of her friends trying to get where she used to be. Connecting back to my last post Annabel describes her house as her family, and herself also. I thought that was a  good way to represent the Perfection everyone sees in her house and her family but on the inside it is hanging by a thread. I think that Annabel might be the only one actually trying to pull everyone back together, while every one else has lost hope. Maybe Owen is the only thing that is stable for her right know thats why she likes him. I hope I get the answers to my questions by the next post                        

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

      I just started reading this book named Just Listen by Sarah Dessen so far it is about a girl named Annabel who last summer apparently lost everything, her friends, and her sisters. On the outside she lives the picture perfect life, loving family, she is beautiful, but on the inside it is a different story.
     This made me think about how your peers or your family forces you to be someone that your not. Many people assume different things by how you present your self or who your family is. But, is this the right thing to do. If we " Judge the book by its cover" with every person we meet, we will never know the real person. All of the opinions and assumptions people might throw at others, could really ruin their life.Is it easier to be popular, but have every one relying on you to stay perfect, throughout your life, or be left on the outside, being who you are and no one else. Well it also depends on who your family is because the pressure starts at home. For example in the book, Annabel's two older sisters were, her mothers craved imaged of perfect. So all of her life she has tried, and sometimes failed to strive to be just as perfect as they were. Her mother always thought she knew what was best but, what she wanted wasn't what she wanted. But, just because your family or your friends live or is none to have a certain reputation does that mean that's automatically your choose. I hope I find the answer to my question as I further read what Annabel's choice might be.    

TTFN (Ta-Ta- For-Now)

The book TTFN is the sequal to TTYL, and is about 3 teens finding themselves while going through everyday high school. The formate is the things that grabs you right away. When reading IMs( the format the book is in) is like looking into someones personal life, more like interupting it. Because it is only in IMs there are no descriptions of the characters, so there are like no idenitities to the IMs, they have a mind of there own. There are only actions of the characters.
What i have noticed so far in the sequal is  about the connections and friendships that come and go through the highs and lows of high school. The friendships in high school really make or brake you. If you have good friend, that supporte you and give you advice, they would help you make the right decission. If you dont have the right people beside you, it feels more like your alone than having friends. But when we do come to have the right friends,  some still go off and make the wrong decisions. In the book this happens quite often.i found out that, when meeting new people, they find that the lifestly they use is much better than the one they live through with their friends. So they change, thinking it is for the better, but is it. Is leaving with the old and going with the New always the best choice. Or is staying with what made you, you the  good way to go.