Summary:
During the course of this reading, Susy has become a spinning image of her mother minus a few things. At the age of fourteen she has graduated from middle school and is starting the ninth grade at a boarding school. It's difficult for her to adjust and she explains how she misses home. When she talked to her mom, it was brought to her attention that the seventeen year old boy she once had a crush on was now in relationship with her mother and has lost his virginity to her. Previously before this, her mother was in a relationship with one of friend's brother, Paul who was nineteen. Surpisingly, Sue told her new friend Katy that her mother had slept with her boyfriend and they hadn't even broken up yet. While she is there, she experiences her first kiss with a senior by the name of Larry. This is something she made sure occurred everyday that is until he broke up with her. Aside from the break up, she still felt as if she could kiss anyone after doing it with him. After hearing so much about boys from Sue, Katy explains to her that she has become boy crazy which offends her. She felt as though her friend didn't understand her feelings because she never had any experience which is what she needed in Sue's opinion. She fell for a boy by the name of Hammond and one day he tried to force himself on her. This didn't really take a toll on Sue the way it would a normal girl. She just found it as a joke but still she informed the school and teachers and he didn't care. She felt cold and alone which is why she left, aside from the fact that she needed to be with her sister after her mom injected herself with cocaine in her thigh. Sue was immune to all of this which surpised her English teacher after she had written about it. She'd be going to a new school in Colorado after her sixteenth birthday which eventually came around. For her birthday, she, her sister, and mom had gone out to a bar where she'd been told that a boy she was interested in named Theo fancied her. She was given three presents on her birthday. A pen, blank diary, and her own gram of coke which she and her mom sniffed together. Her mother promised her that she'd get him to come over for a drink only to later hear them in her mother's room having sex. She told her she did it because she didn't seem to take much interest in him which was true so it didn't bother Sue much. After being in school for some time, Sue began to crush on her English teacher, Dr. Crawford but was turned down. She became fairly close to losing her virginity to Lincoln which became a whole new lie for her to go by.
Quote:
"I missed home, my mother's rumpled bed, Penelope's James Taylor music, which I didn't even like. I missed being me."
Reflection:
This quote somewhat demonstrates a "Bildungsroman" because Sue is moved out her comfort zone and she doesn't act like herself in order to fit in with the other people at her school. She knows that what Hammond did to her was wrong which is why she told but she didn't take it as serious as it should've been. I'm not sure whether I could consider her to be accepted by others in her school or not. I've noticed that the author involes alot of dialect throughout the book and entrys in Sue's diary which helped me to see how she was actually turning into her mother. The way she would act and the things she would write made me think of her mother when reading it. The things she looked down on her mother for, she began to do herself which I found suprising yet interesting at the same time.
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