Quarter 2 Post 4B

I'm reading Sarah Dessen's book Just Listen.

The section I just read was all about Annabel's family falling apart and then attempting to recover which is a work in progress. Whitney has an eating disorder and her mother refuses to believe Kirsten until it is so serious that Whitney passes out a second time and is hospitalized. She enters treatment and then comes back home. She is slowly overcoming her anorexia. Kirsten decides that she doesn't enjoy modeling anymore and this upsets their mother greatly because she always took pride and joy in her daughters' modeling jobs. Kirsten decides to go back to school so she can get a "real job".
"Again, my sisters were at extremes yet similar at the same time: Each was starting over, but only one by choice" (62). Whitney and Kirsten are polar opposites, but they are going through changes in their lives and have torn their family apart with their problems. Kirsten has full control over her life and is happy while Whitney is forced through treatment and has barely any control on her life currently. They are angry at eachother and refuse to talk even though it could be beneficial to both of them to have eachother to turn to and help. "As different as my family was that night it all began from what we appeared to be-- the five of us, a happy family, sharing a meal in our glass house-- to anyone passing by on a roadside, looking in" (63). Their family looks perfect from the outside and no one knows how much they have been through. Annabel believes that the whole situation has changed her, yet she is the only one who can see it. This is similar to their family issues because only they know about it.