Quarter 2 Post 2B

I'm reading Just Listen by Sarah Dessen and it is getting really good and interesting even though I haven't read too much of it yet. I found a qoute that I would like to comment on for this post because I haven't had time to read very much this week.

"'Honey, I know,' she said, as if she actually did, which was totally not the case. Having raised three daughters, my mom was well versed in the politics of girls, which had made it easy for me to explain Sophie's sudden and utter disappearance from my life..." (26).

Annabel's mother is trying to sympathize with her because she is having a bad day and her best friend recently stopped hanging out with her because of something she did. (I must say that I am really mad that I don't know what happened to their friendship and what Annabel did to Sophie yet!!! Maybe the author would like the reader to see Annabel as a friendly person that they like before she writes anything that could make the reader dislike Annabel's character.) However, back to the quote, Annabel realizes that her mother knows what it is like to be a girl and what goes on in her daughters' lives, she feels that her mother will never understand what it feels like to be her and have her unique problems. I think most teenagers feel this way, that their parents don't know how stressful their life can be, but I think that normally parents can have a lot to say about something and some good advice to offer because they too were a child at some point in their lives. I think it is a bit odd that Annabel's mother didn't think that there wasn't anything deeper than Sophie just acting weird and not being Annabel's friend anymore. Good friends don't let stupid little issues come between them, and it seems like Annabel's mom would know this. It may just be that her mother is preoccupied with her three daughters and their modeling careers and if that is the case I feel sorry for Annabel because I know how preoccupied parents can get with their work and it can be hard on kids if their is something exciting or scary in their lives at the time.