Rachel Hall

Rachel Hall
The Truth About Forever
Sarah Dessen
Realistic fiction
Just right
140

1. The main character is going out on a Friday night with the catering crew. Macy is used to being a tom boy and she doesn't really care about what she looks like. But, when she goes over Monica and Kristy's house they decide to try and dress her up. They put her in a very tight pair of jeans that fit her, and a very low cut tank top that she definitely isn't used to wearing. She has her first beer when she's out this night, and it was definitely a memorable night for her. The girls see how flirty Macy is with Wes and so they think that Macy doesn't like Jason anymore, which is not the case. So, the girls start to tell Macy how they don't like Jason and that she should go after Wes. She doesn't choose between Jason and Wes at the end of the chapter but you know enough that you could guess she doesn't want to leave Jason.

2.     I really enjoy the book. The thing that I think I enjoy most is that there are so many plot twist. Like you can sort of think that you know whats going to happened and then you flip the page and it's the complete opposite. I also just really like the characters, each individual character came into the book with their own life story and other things that happened to them. There were no two characters that were so alike that I got them confused. I also like that you get to see a lot of Macy going out of her comfort zone and trying new things, that she normally wouldn't have. For example just changing her clothes, rolling her hair, and having her first beer. Those are all things that she hasn't done before but she found to enjoy being able to test out and experiment with.

3.       I think that a major theme in this book is acceptance. Macy has to accept the fact that her father had a heart attack at a young age and that she won't be able to give him that last hug and just to let him know that she loves her dad. Not only in this book, but acceptance in life is a huge theme. There is not  single human that was, is or ever will be walking on this Earth and be able to say that they lived the perfect life. But especially in this book, I feel like Sarah Dessen couldn't have made this theme more visible to me. Throughout this book you see that it's not just a story it's a lesson that's teaching you, you can't always just be passive. You have to just be yourself, and being accepting is a huge aspect of that. I see this mainly in the characters. The characters see that if they spend all this time wondering about why some people don't accept them, then they're missing out on a HUGE part of their life. So once they see this they let go and just be themselves. 

4.       My favorite character is Kristy. Kristy is one of Macy's good friends and she honestly is my favorite because of how unique she is. When she was twelve years old she got into a terrible car accident, and had to go to the hospital. At the hospital they had to give her an operation on the back of her head, which means they had to shave all of her hair off. Why I like her isn't just because she had to go through this terrible thing, but what she did with what she got. Kristy is very open to talking about it, and it tends to happen a lot since she has scars all over her face and head. Since she has all these scars, some people just come right up to her and ask her what's wrong with her. This is what makes her my favorite character, is because she doesn't get offended by this. Kristy would much rather have someone come up to her and ask her point-blank, rather than just staring at her and thinking up ways of why it happened. 

5.        My least favorite character is Jason. We only see a little bit of him at the beginning and he seems like this great guy and that Macy is lucky to have him. But it bothered me a little bit that he still wanted to be dating Macy even when he was leaving for overnight camp for 2 moths. At the beginning of the book Macy says that Jason is perfect, and that's exactly what she needed. I think that was a little bit of a stretch though. I don't think that they should've stayed together for 2 months when they weren't even near each other. I personally don't think that long distance relationships work. So it was almost annoying that Jason wouldn't sit down with Macy and just say that because he's going away that they should just break up for the time being and then maybe when he gets back they could try to go out again. If he was so "perfect" he would've known that it wasn't right to let her wait for him like that.

6.       I think that Macy will leave Jason for Wes in the ending. When Macy meets Wes when Jason is away, they immediately hit it off. Wes isn't the kind of guy that Macy is usually interested in. From how we know Macy she likes to feel safe and doesn't like going out of her comfort zone. So, finding out that she might have feelings for this new guy that she met over Jason is very hard for her to picture. When she's with Jason, they don't always have the most exciting of times but he makes her feel safe. I don't think that she's really thinking about what's going to happened when they break up or if they meet different people when they're apart. Which is what is happening with Wes. I think that once Macy finds a new comfort zone, maybe with Wes she'll like it a lot more than with Jason. I want her to end up with Wes in the end because from what I know now, I like Wes more. Wes seems more fun to be around and just like a living in the moment kind of guy.