Quarter 2 Post 7B

I just finished Sarah Dessen's Just Listen and I loved it!

I found a quote that relates to almost all the plots throughout the book.

"One weak, one strong. One scared one, one bold. I was beginning to understand, though, that there was no such thing as absolutes, not in life or in people. Like Owen said, it was day by day, if not moment by moment. All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest" (356).

This quote relates to Annabel's parents because of where it is placed in the book, but it can relate to almost all of the characters. Annabel used to see her mom as weak, because she suffered from depression, and her father as strong. However in the end of the book she sees that both have their ups and their downs and her mother can be strong and brave when she needed to be. Another example is Annabel's two sisters, Whitney and Kirsten. Whitney was always seen as weak because of her eating disorder and because she kept to herself while Kirsten was seen as bold because she put her feelings out there and was very forward with people. At the end of the book, though, Whitney becomes strong after therapy and is happy and social while Kirsten mellows out and lets others get a word in edgewise. At the end of the book, Annabel's family is closer and stronger than ever, including Annabel, who went from strong, to completely lost and then found once more.