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** spoiler alert ** This book was inspiring to me because the girl in the book reminds me of myself a little and the changes she made are some that I hope to make. After her mom and her were moving around a lot her mom made a life changing decision to lose weight. Her mom and her were no longer over-weight and her mother was inspired so much so that she started her own work out show and became a star. But....the girl still remembers all the pain from being made fun of as a child and even in high school still suffers the self-consciousness. As her mom goes on a travel to a different country for her TV show, the girl, Colie, is stuck with her weird Aunt over the summer. She gets a job at a restaurant called Last Chance Diner in the small town and meets another girl that teaches her that she can be beautiful if she is confident in herself. Colie blooms into a girl that can feel good about herself and she knows that it's time to let her past go. Before this she had dyed her hair black, got a lip piercing that served as a security blanket for her(she always ran her tongue along it when she felt sad), and you could tell that the depression of her past had set in. This was important to me because in school and out of school I always feel like I'm walking on glass, doing everything I can to make everyone else not hate me. I thought that if I could be invisible, as quiet as I can, then I couldn't make a mistake. While keeping people as far away as I could, I had no friends and no one to talk too. I felt inspired after reading this book because I know that I can be everything that I want to be and I don't have to be afraid about what others will think of me. Even though I know I have a long way to go to feel good about myself I also know that I have a lot to offer and its time to stop living in the past. Another thing about the book that I found important was that as soon as Colie felt confident in herself, she was noticed and it was easy for her to make friends. I think that I would have more friends if I be myself, though I'll have struggles with this. I also learned from the Colie's aunt, Mira, that constantly got made fun of behind her back because of her being over-weight and weird. Mira didn't care, in fact, she just ignored them and continued being herself. She wasn't sad, she was carefree and happy. This was yet another great book by Sarah Dessen that just happened to be a book that was just for me. Sarah Dessen's books are designed for teens but this book happened to be a book designed for me, a person on the road to feeling self-confident. I think that it's up to me to be me so that others can be themselves too and respect each other for that. I know that I'll probably have some people make fun of me, it's inevitable, just like Colie, but the funny thing to me is that I don't care and neither did she. As soon as people figure that out, then they'll move on to the next person to hate and maybe, just maybe, they'll realize what a mistake they're making; What goes around comes around and it's coming around alright.I'm also lead to believe that people that are mean only win if you let them have your anger and sadness. I finally believed my parents when they said that the people that are jerks in high school have lives that suck afterwards and people that are put down by them have great lives. When a mean girl that knew Colie from school saw Colie, she tried to stop her cousin from becoming friends with her but her efforts were futile. The mean girl's cousin saw that the Colie was an amazing person and wanted to get to know her. I hope that the same can happen to me; this summer, I'll be making some changes about myself: Molding myself into everything that I am inside my heart.

2022-10-28 05:49