Blog 10...The End Of The End

So...I finished "Does My head Look Big In This?". I really liked the book, until the end. I thought that this author was way to close to perfect for most of the book. She was funny, fresh, and yet at the samee time she was deep and could have a "serious" talk with the people reading the book. Plus, I thought the whole plot idea was great and super creative. I really thought that she could write a book about rocks, and make it interesting. Near the last five chapters of the book, I realized that she really should have written a shorter book. The four chapters before the very last chapter of the book, were all "fluff". I felt like I didn't want to finish the book. Until Leila ran away...

Amal's best friend from her old school, Leila, has a crazy mama. Her mom is always setting up marriages, and says women were only meant to cook and clean. Leila, being one of the smartest girls at her school, wants to be a lawyer. She just can't deal with the stress, and runs away... She finds out she really can deal with being an adult.

In the end of the story, Amal realizes it is the different, un-perfect, immigrants who are her friends and family and who have shaped who she is and who she will become.

So, Amal's character is finally shaping up to be who she will be as an adult.

Near the beginning of the book, Amal talks about Adam as her friend. Towards the middle of the book she finds out that Adam actually, despite her scarf, likes her and he tries to kiss her at his birthday party, but instead of following her heart she follows her head and her religion. Amal is a good friend to most people in the text except for those three stuck-up girls. At a venerable moment in the toilets, Amal runs into Tia, Claire and Rita, after a little ‘b****y’ talk about everything wrong with Amal. The relationship between these three girls and Amal is anything but friendly, as I explained last week. Eileen and Simone practically faint when they hear the story about Amal rejecting him. Simone has a story of her own though. Her and Josh finally made a date!!! EEP!!!!! Still a great book!

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Tia and Rita. If I could USE a swear word to describe them I would. For right now, I'll just say that they are witches. You can imagine what I mean. Anyway, talk about giving a girl a hard time. Rita and Tia are already known as the "Popular group"...so you can imagine what they say when Amal walks in with her scarf. Eileen and Simone, Amal's best friends, also get a hard time. Since Simone is so concerned about her wait, Tia and Rita are always making fun of it. Those are only four of the colorful characters her class mates are. Josh, a nice jewish boy, is one of the only people who understands Amal's desicion, other than Simone and Eileen. He's popular, cute, and funny. Right now, the author is foreshadowing a relationship between him and Simone. The boy talked about most, though, is Adam. The way he's just a little of, but still SO CUTE. Basically, the couple of chapters I read this week, talked about them. I kinda wish that the author did more than describe characters, but it's still a fu book. It's light, yet such a deep subject. Still lovin' it.

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