How does your home and the people
in it affect you? Does it affect you? Lush by Natasha Friend shares this "cause
and effect situation". It explains how easy it can be to lie and say you're
okay when you're not. But what you're surrounded by does affect you, especially
at home.
Samantha, the main character is
dealing with regular eight grade issues but to add on to that. Her dad is an alcoholic.
Regular thirteen year olds usually only have to deal with lots of homework and "mean"
teachers but Sam not only has a drunk father almost every night but she also
want to make sure he is okay, so she
stays up to see when he comes home. But Sam can't even tell her best friends
about this. By hiding this she seems to have to let it out some way. So Sam
starts writing letters to a stranger in the library…
This communication goes on for many
letters without her know who the person is all she knows is that she has seen
"her" before. So Sam is okay with telling a complete stranger all her
feelings but can't tell her best friends any of it. This opened a new page in
the book, Maybe it’s the people she doesn’t know she feels more comfortable
with because she thinks they can judge he if they don’t "know" her.
Maybe she just doesn’t feel comfortable with telling the ones she truly knows
because she thinks they will try to help when in the end its just making it
worse.
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