Misfits?

Eleanor & Park (Exclusive Special Edition)

Misfits? Have you ever felt like one? What exactly is a misfit? 

  Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (10/4/2016) Realistic fiction

   This is a story that almost everyone can connect with. The realistic fiction of this book is amazingly told about two kids who are so different yet fall in love. They are from two different worlds and the saying of opposites attract come alive in this book. Eleanor is a red headed girl who comes from a family that struggles with personal dilemmas including abuse. Eleanor goes through rough times at home but yet carries on a great friendship with Park. Park is privileged boy who comes from a loving home. He lives a normal life without abuse and has many friends. When reading this book the irony is that Park and Eleanor hate each other but yet build a bond on a bus ride each day that brings them to loving each other. The theme of bullying is prevalent in this book in how the author writes the feelings of Eleanor and all the students around her at school. Her normal day of school is a scary realistic issue of bullying that goes on in schools today. I want to leave you with this part of the book.... You decide would this be a book about true love, bullying and family abuse all wrapped up in one?
Standing behind him until he turned his head. Lying next to him just before he woke up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough. Eleanor ruining everything. Eleanor, gone. He’d stopped trying to bring her back


My reaction to this book is that it was written about issues of teens today and they all can relate to these. I would be honest in worrying about some issues this book goes into such as sexual intercourse and bullying issues that become larger and make others act differently. My reaction about the story that takes place of two polar opposites is something that happens all the time yet the real story is looking at someone not just in the outward appearance but what lies inside. All teens have strengths (things they are good at) and things they are not. I loved that each character Eleanor and Park fostered a love of reading.

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