Exit Here: Cross-Book Inquiry

I am currently reading the book Exit here by the author Jason Myers. This book really relates to the college/teenage life and scenecs that would probably appear in any place at any time. Well it seems very closeto the party scenes that you would expect at a college age, which relates  to another book that I have read pretty recently. The book that this book relates to is called Be More Chill, it is similar to this book because it just relates to the social life that is a  hugepart in both books, and for the same fact that they are bothsimilar ages living in our world. They are both searching for something in their life too.

In both books, they seem to be searching for a girl they both seem to always need to find that missing part in their life.Like in Be More Chill,he takes a pill in order to be cooler so he can get this girl of his dreams. The main character in Be More Chill seems to have a verystrong need for the girl to be his girlfriend, without it seems as if his life isn't complete. Also in the current book I am reading now it seems as if the main character, Trevor, is missing something in his life without his old girlfriend Laura. People in the book start to notice it a bit that he seems less excited. It probably is the fact that he doesn't have his old girlfriend like he used to.

In both books it kind of seem that drugs and the party scene is a bad problem in their lives. They both seem to have a dramatic downfall in their lives because of the drugs and craziness that goes on in these parties. Especially for Trevor, Trevor faces serious problems in his life because of this. He started to drop his grades very low, andd it led him to getting arrested. Tome it seems like away to get rid of his loss of Laura. It makes him forget the moments that he;s in and justt forget them as if it never happened, it's his own healing mechanism. For the main character in Be More Chill, it's just tomuch for him to engulf at once,it makes him do things that he's not prepared for. He starts doing crazy things like cheating with a boy's girlfriend.

In conclusion,they are both close because they face similar problems, in life that affect them greatly (in bad terms). They can't seem to face their own problems truly without anything else.

Looking for Alaska is a book about a personnamed Miles who goes off to boarding school and encounters new things that he has never seen before in his life, such as smoking, sex and basically he starts to go towards his rebellious side. I've noticed many archtypes in the story because of the new environment he's put in.

The obvious hero in the story is Alaska she is also a mentor because of the fact that she does teach and guide him through boarding school life, but she deserves the spot as a hero because she does have many flaws in her life, but it is very courageous. Alaska has many flaws in her life. She's not veryloyal because of the fact that she cheated on her boyfriend, and made out with Miles. She is also not very content with herself she is always finds herself to be unhappy, "I am an unhappy girl."She is so unpleased with her life,which considers her to be unperfect. She is very courageous, afer hearing that she is an unhappy person this is surprising. She's not afraid of getting in trouble, it'probably the fact that she doesn't care about her life.

The mentor in the story would have to be "colonel", he is the the mentor of Miles because he is very influential on Miles in a positive way. Colonel is never the one to go over the top  with anything, so he's always he suttle one.This is why he's able to restrain Miles fom going overboard with Alaska's courageous ways. He also symbolizes experience because he teaches Miles from past experiences ways that he can get caught smoking (they smoke a lot) and who are people that you should not trust in the boarding school.He was also the first person to take Miles under his arm the moment Miles went to te boarding school. He's really been thefirst real friend Miles had ever.

The shadow would haveto be the "weekday warriors" or the rich white people in the school. The first timeMiles arrived in school he was harrassed by dumping him in the lake and making him nearly drown. They're like the bullies of the school. This is the shadow or the darker side because they're the ones that basically started the whole problem in the school with Miles in the first place. After they did this to Miles, colonel got angry and started to play pranks on them. It started to become a prank war, and their dislike for each other increased a lot. Their snottyness makes them seem as bullies of the school,and they are basiclly trouble makers.

The shapeshifter of the story would have to be the eagle, he is basically the dean of the school. He's a shapeshifter because he doesn'treally take authority's side like he's supposed to. He pretty much supports Miles' side and other kids because he's not very strict into expelling people unless neccessary. He really justt focuses on the school reputation more than the law if it's right or not. He sometimes takes the laws side like when he expelled two kids for alcohol ingestion,, it was onl once though so not really. That's how Alaska and Miles do bad things without getting caught.

Looking for Alaska: book connection to Spud

I am currently reading the book Looking For Alaska by John Green. I have just started the book this week and it’s really good it’s the first good book I have read in a while. This book seems to resemble the book Spud because of the similar boarding school experience with girls, and adventures that happen during on campus. I noticed that many similar things happen during the story it almost seems that all books about boarding schools are so cliché. It seems that once a person enters life on campus their lives all of sudden change into a rebellious life, that’s full of a lot of mischief and antics that the main character always seem to take part in with other boarding school roommates.

My first reason that supports why the book Spud is similar to this book I’m reading right now is the fact that there is always a girl that they seem to be attracted to the most. In Looking for Alaska, the main character Miles (a.k.a Pudge) is in love with this girl named Alaska which you can obviously see that because of the title of the book. Which is so similar to the book Spud, it doesn’t happen in the beginning of the book, but as the book goes forward the main character in the book who is named John Milton, falls in love with another girl who is not in the boarding school, named Amanda she seemed to be the strongest love that he had out of the one that he had before he falls in love with Debbie. In both books Amanda and Alaska both have boyfriends. Yet they always seem to end up in a romantic moment in the night.

My second reason that supports why Spud and Looking for Alaska are similar is the fact that in both books there is always pranks to be made with other roommates. In Spud they played a prank on John by snatching him in his bed and harassed him in the bathroom. Also in the other book Miles was picked up while he was sleeping on his first day. They picked him up and tied him with ropes, and sunk him in the lake on campus. It seems that pranks just seem to follow where ever there are roommates. Pranks just happen non-stop in Spud and in Looking for Alaska. So far in my current book pranks are being planned and performed to all the supporting characters in the book even Alaska, they flooded her room deeply, and damaged many valuables. To me it seems so stereotypical for the fact that it seems that kids act immature whenever parents are not there.

Boarding just seems like a place of rebellious kids and a lot of mischief. It surprises me that in both books that their lives change dramatically after just moving to boarding schools. It’s such a change from normal people, to people you wouldn’t have even thought were smart enough to attend a boarding school. It’s a little unrealistic to me, yet it’s what makes the book very interesting.

Just Kids:Theme of the book

I am currently reading the book Just Kids by Patti Smith. I am currently reading the book and it seems to be a mix of things that the character has been going through (both characters). These characters have a passion for art, and the book seems to focus on this and their lives in general. Yet their lives are very realistic, they share conflicts in which are very relatable to our world in the book. One of the most similar themes I have seen in the book is early pregnancy; this theme has been very prominent considering the beginning of the book which is very important to hook the reader in talks about pregnancy which I have yet to uncover. Pregnancy is a huge theme in the book for the fact that it creates discrimination against you and the people around you. It also makes you backtrack and change your life in succeeding.

In the book one of the main characters is obviously a female in order to be having a baby. When she gets pregnant her life completely changes around. In the book she sleeps with a boy and realizes that she got pregnant. This creates a tremendous amount of problems for her because like I said it first created discrimination around her. Since she is a pretty religious catholic it is a known belief that you're not supposed to have sex before marriage, and obviously she violated this belief. Her neighbors started to look at her distastefully, and her family's reputation went down, even though it wasn't that high before anyways. Yet they still treated her bad, quote “they treated my family like I was harboring a criminal." This shows you how extreme their judge mentality was towards her. Yet this is so relatable currently in our world. Many people watch the show called teen mom and I have heard many people talk about, so discriminative; they act like just because they had a baby they ultimately changed in to a bad person. Yet really they are obviously the same person. I honestly think that it is true that they actually should have thought about it before, especially since they knew they had no ways back then to prevent birth (relating back to the story now). Early pregnancy is obviously a major problem in the story.

Early pregnancy also creates a huge backtrack in your life, and obviously she knows it does because she has had a huge back track since her original life before she ever became pregnant. She had to leave her home after she got pregnant because of all the ridicule she got from neighbors. She left, but still had issues with other things because of the fact that her family didn’t make that much money, so, basically she left with nothing but a little amount of savings. She had to go live with a family that kindly accepted her inside their home. If it wasn’t for her being pregnant she would continue her art and her easy going life to enjoy reading every day. But yet she is pregnant and had to find a job that she didn’t like at all and now is struggling with a lot of things. Which is in the real world and being pregnant can immediately ruin your life. In teen mom most of them have problems even finishing school because they have to take care of their newborn child. A lot of people don’t even go back to school period. It causes a huge speed bump, because now you can’t worry about you, only your son or daughter. Pregnancy is such a turning point and theme for the main character.

In conclusion, being pregnant really changed her life. This is really special because it really does show pregnancy a lot. This is really comparable of our life; even though we have birth control it still happens which makes me wonder if that made a difference.

Hard Things Happening in my book

The book I am currently reaading is called Across The Wire by the author Luis Alberto Urrea. It is basically about the life of him as he helps the people on the Mexican side of the border. It really shows the many hard things of life that I definitely wouldn't see around the places in my neighborhood. Gang violence, is such a huge part in the book, which is hard for immigrants from Mexico to even leave. This is explained through the first hand experience of the author, Luis.Who's actually seen it happen. Another hard thing that happens in the book is when Luis, sees all of the pproblems that people face in Mexico,and obvious reasons why who wouldn't leave the country for America. Many people are faced with complete and undescribable poverty and many diseases.

In the book that I'm going to be talking about they face huge gang violence in undescribable measures. Something that ou would never expect to happen in any of the communities that people live in, no matter how, bad that community is thought to be. In the prologue of the story they describe many gangs that attack peoplein Mexico,because of the discrimination many gangs have towards other races in society. If your not a local the tough guys of the society, beat you up. Especially for woman who try to cross the border in order to get a better life. Women who walk down the street get harrassed by being called names, or insulted by the men on the street. Sometimes it even gets physical when gang members rape the women. Woman are sometimes beat for no reason, by the many gangs that are in Mexico. An example of a street gang the Pandilleros, they are the most ruthless gang described in the book. They enjoy killing people just for the fun of it. Luis describes how the lucky ones only make it out. There are many ways toget robbed aand killed in your escape. The Rateros or the Padilleros, kill for valuables and the Rateros are thieves.  The coyote (escorts) might pull a gun on you and take all valuables. The junkies might also attack you for many things. And of course the border patrol might catch you. Another hard thing besides this is the huge amount of poverty in the story. The mexicans describe living in a dump, and begging better than their old lives "This is a garbage dump. Take all you need. There is plenty for everyone." This shows how bad life is for them to love a life of begging. Another huge problem is the disease that many haave because the unsanitariness. They describe diseases that is oblivious to us because of our available treatment. The most described one is scabies. A disease caused by insects burrowing in the body. Many of them have it because of the fact thatthey live in a dump. I cannot stand a life like this, but this shows the grattefulness they must have for the slightest improvement in their life.


What suprises me is that through so much problems in their life they have great morals. They are so gratteful no matter what the problem is in their life. One ladies was in so bad condition from the scabies and poverty, yet she showed great morals even when Luis said that he'll try to help them. HE's not even sure since many other people have asked for help before. Yet she still said thank you, that I found touching through a page. Another thing that surprises me about the mexicans is the fact that they keep a positive mind no matter what. One of them had scabies and they didn't know what it was t'ill Luis told them. The most oddest reaction to expect was that they laughed like it wasn't serious. Who lauughs?I would be so scared to even sleep with things crawling in me. This book is very persuasive in the sense that it gives you the idea why they would cross the border. Even though we give them names, but don't realize the other point of view. Which Luis is trying to display in the book.

This book has made me realize a lot of things. The greatest moral I feel that I can take away from this is no matter in what situatuion don't forget your morals. They may  be illegal immigrants when crossing the border, but they deserve the land we live in.

Hard Things that are happening in the book Paper Towns

I am currently reading the book Paper Towns by John Green. The book so far seems to be about the love of the main character Quentin, towards Margo another supporting character in the story. Yet with this love that Q (Quentin's nickname) has for Margo it comes with complications, such as when Margo leads the main character into doing things to get back at her own enemies. Even though Margo and Quentin finally get back at their enemies, what comes around goes around. Their enemies get them back which is the enemies justice that is achieved for them.

When Margo and Quentin go on their drive in the night to get revenge on the people that hurt them, or that they disliked the most, they serve justice for themselves because they get to inflict the punishment that is deserved upon their enemies. For  instance Quentin gets his justice against his bully Chuck Parson. Chuck has done many mean things to Quentin, Chuck onced forced Quentin to call himself a faggot by bending his arm backand hurting Quentin. This shows that Chuck has inflicted self embarrasment among Quentin,and also he inflicted pain by doing this. Chuck has had countlless times making Quentin humiliate himself in front of people and has hurt him in many ways.Yet Quentin recieves the justice that he deserves by performing a prank that finally gets the self humiliation that Chuck deserves. Quentin obviously felt a sign of revenge against Chuck because it describes Quentin smearing vaseline on the door handles(part of the prank), with a lot of effort and heartless emotion towards Chuck.This shows how much Quentin has felt about Chuck for  a while. Therfore Quentin recieves the justice he deserves.

The justice that Quentin recieves,is also turned on him becasue of what the victims of Quentin and Margo. The day after many things happen in school thatt Quentin goes to, all of a sudden a group of kids start shooting people with pee filled waterguns, they also vaandalize the girlbathroom with derrogatory words. It becomes anonymous who does it at first,but then the  main character realizes that it's all the work of the people they got their revenge on last night. This shows how the people in the story get their revenge back, and their justice by ruining the livesof other people which is awkward because Margo is the they would be harrasing because she left notes stating that it was her that did these prank on them, but she runs away therfore leaving the public vulnerable to their revenge scheme. Yet they sort of get their revenge by releasing it to the public, it's a sort ofjusttice in the sense that they made a great disturbance in Quentin.

In conclusion, justice is served whether in small or big ways in the book. When Quentin and Margo get their justice when getting revenge on their enemies,and when the enemies get thier revenge back. Justice isproved to be unclear whether it is done positively or negatively.

Hard Things in Motherless Brooklyn

There are many hard things going on in the book, Motherless Brooklyn right now. Mainly for the fact that the main character is different from many other main characters in other books. The main character in the book has a disease called tourette’s syndrome which causes random compulsions and twitches in the main character. This is also one of the hard things that happens in the book because it leaves him disabled and not par to everyone, like being able socializing with people. Which is exactly like what life is like with people with disabilities in our world to. Another hard thing that is happening in the book is the fact that Frank Minna dies. He’s the boss of a gang that adopts the main character, Lionel, and others to help him with his illegal activities.

The first hard thing that is happening in the book is the fact that Lionel has tourettes it makes him disabled, to the world. Without Frank he would seem helpless to the world because people see him in society as mentally challenged and crazy. An example was when he was at the hospital, his tourettes started to act up and he nearly had to be escorted out of the hospital by the security guard because the security guard was unsure why he was acting like that. Tourettes causes people to see someone as a misfit in society, which is what Lionel is even when he was at the hospital home. His compulsiveness made him do strange things, it made him want to touch everything he sees. This compulsiveness made him an outcast because people where afraid they were going to be touched by him. Lionel’s tourette syndrome has caused him to be an outcast and a distraction in society.

The second hard thing that is happening in the book is Frank Minna’s death. Lionel has been so dependent on Frank because he has no one else to help him in a world that has disregarded challenged people like Lionel. Especially since Frank is the one who basically adopted Lionel from the hospital. There are complications after the death of Frank, people start to fight over who should take over the gang, and many problems dealing with other members of the group. Lionel who is helpless by himself is lost without Frank Minna to help him in his life. Minna is like the father he never had before in his life, basically he’s losing his only mentor.

In conclusion, Lionel has to face hard problems with his tourettes and after he lost his only mentor Frank Minna. I could never  sympathize with Lionel, but I feel bad that he has no one as close as he had with Minna.        

Teen Angst? Nahhh...Character types

I am currently reading the book Teen Angst Nahh? By Ned Vizzini. The story is basically about Ned Vizzini’s life and how he faces common teen problems; the way he faces it turns out to be the funny parts of the book. The main character Ned himself faces many character changes throughout the book because of the decisions that he makes In his teen life. As I read through the eyes of Ned Vizzini I notice the many characters that surround Ned and influence him in many different ways. I notice the many archetypes of the book. Here are the archetypes that is recognized for each specific character.

The obvious hero in the story is obviously Ned, what defines a hero is someone who is not perfect, displays courage and self sacrifice. I can easily describe Ned as all three of these characteristics because the teenage life of Ned has to face all of this. An example of something  Ned’s not is perfect at is physical activities such as karate. Ned even says himself that he is bad at karate. He describes himself as inflexible so he can’t perform the proper stretches needed and he can’t do the techniques correctly. Even when Ned played soccer he said he was terrible because his team lost 0-12. This show how Ned Is a hero because he is not perfect at all at any physical activities, which is relatable to some teenagers at Ned’s age in the book. Ned also displays courage, when he actually has to fight against himself instead of studying, to go to a concert. This only proves more to the reader about how equal he is to us even though he is currently a writer. Ned displays these more charecters of a hero more than any other character in the book.

The mentor in the story would have to be Ned’s school conscious. Ned”s school conscious was the one that wanted to stay home and study instead of going to a concert. At one point in the book Ned describes that his hanging  out side wanted to sneak out the window even when his mom said no to going to the concert. His school conscious was the mentor and completely disregarded the hanging out part of the brain. This side of the brain told Ned that he had to study for the test coming up the next day. This mentor also experiences past experiences because it’s based off of Ned’s past experiences of not studying, so he does contain some wisdom. Mentor’s don’t always have to be a literal thing, archetypes can be internal too.

The Shadow in the story is definitely the other side of his brain, the one that was against the good side of Ned’s conscious. It’s the bad side of Ned’s conscious because it represents the darker side of Ned because it wants him to fail the same test because it focuses more on his social side of his life which he’s not very good at, which is why the shadow is very provocative. Also his negative conscious makes him do things that he feels that he would never do. Like in one part he never thought of smoking before, but when he went to a summer camp he learns about smoking and starts to smoke himself. His shadow is mostly based on his social life because as he even says he likes doing things he’s bad at because he says he’s supposedly good with everything, especially in academics. This is the shadow because of it’s negative influence on him.  

  The shapeshifter of the story is the Dad. I would say the Dad is because he doesn’t represent a father figure all the time, sometimes the Dad acts like a kid and leaves the house just to get away from the mother. The Dad always doesn’t necessarily set an example up Ned the Dad just supports him in not studying for the test. Like when Ned wanted to go to a concert, but had to study on a test the Dad just supported Ned because he wanted to see the band also, so he was on the negative side once in the story. Yet sometimes the Dad is on the good side by being firm sometimes about what he says like when he taught Ned when he was a kid. Ned’s dad taught Ned math which shows how he went to the good side A.K.A the mentor/studying side. So the Dad is pretty much unpredictable throughout the whole book.

In conclusion, all of the archetypes were very closely related to Ned (himself). Ned seems to be falling on the side of the shadow as he gets older in the book. I guess Ned is becoming more and more attracted to the negative side of things, he reveals himself as someone he’d never thought he’d be in the book.  

Antagonist

I am currently reading the book The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman. The story focuses on the beginnings of world war two and about the hostilities shown towards jews during this time period. It's obviously a different take then what i would expect on a book about the time area  that this book takes place in, because of the fact that it literally takes place in a zoo which makes the book seem like it's a book on the biology of animals instead of the important events of the time period that it takes place in. the  book is starting to unravel itself as the book goes on.

As we can recall the antagonist doesn't necessarily have to be a physical living charecter in the story. The antagonist can be a force in the story and I would say that the antagonist in the story is the theme of war and Hitler. The antagonist in the story is war because of the fact that it messes up the flow of the protagonists life. War messes up the ability of Jan and Antonia too continue the productiveness of their zoo and to continue their research.This is what makes an antgonist an antagonist because it gets in the way of the protagonists want, because of the own wants of the antagonist. War causes Antonia to run away from her home with her son. It can also be considered Hitler because he's the cause of the problems that Antonia has to face. This is the humanistic version of the anttagonistt in the story

These two things you can tell is the antagonists of the story because Antonia even worries about her son. She says that how could a boy experience things like this, because Antonia has also been a victim of war losing two parents in the process of it. This shows that its a real big problem for her because she has too face the terrible parts of it and she doesn't want her son to experience it. showing the same emotions as it would normally be to an antagonist.

In conclusion, war and Hitler are the antagonists inthe book because they cause great problems of paranoia, transforming the charecters usual life.
  

    

Blog #2 choice #1 :The Giver (edited entry)

Dystopia means a society charecterized by human misery such as squalor, oppression, disease and overcrowding. Utopia is the complete oppisite meaning an imaginary place of perfection or an ideal place of state. Out of both of these Jonas seems to live in a Utopia. Obviously Jonas doesn't live in a dystopia because even Jonas claims that the citizens have never experienced the hardships of life, implying that their lives are orderly and seemingly perfect which relates to a utopian society.

Jonas's world could be either, only for him because of the memories that the Giver and the realistic society in general. The reason why the society is an utopia is because of the commitee that runs the  community. The commitee keeps the town perfect,so perfect that people never have to worry about major the problems that people like we have to face such as divorce and crime reason for this is the fact that the community doesnt make chooices for themselves, the choices are made for them such as marriage. Kids never have to face divorce again because the community creates compatible matches between women and men so that they are the only ones compatible with each other. Crime is never faced in the community because people never seem to be rebellious towards the community they all seem to be content with the fact that their live are run for them. Even in one part of the book Jonas admits that the community is so orderly. Everythiing about the community is made to perfection, everything seems to be fine. The community even criticizes the hyperbole use of the word starving because the commitee says that the people will never starve in the community, as Jonas was told. This shows how the community knows that it's perfect because everywhere inour present world has faced starvation once, and to not face it shows how much it's the ideal place to live.

The community in which jonas lives in can also be a dystopia because it is very oppresive of feelings. The society doesn't let the use of hyperboles in order to describe something,meaning that people ,can't express their feeling in a enthusiastic way like we do. It is also oppresive to the feelings that Jonas has because in the story when jonas asks his parent do they love him they said it's a meaningless word that has not been used. Which shows how the community has omitted words that express feelings of any sort. Jonas is also opressed because he can't explain anything the Giver has taught him because the commitee limits the community to feelings in the first place and to experience new things thats why Jonas is being oppressed because he can't express his feelings towards anyone in the community. Jonas' world can also be seen as a dystopia for the fact that he has misery from the memories transfered to him from the Giver therfore making his world full of misery.

To make our world a utopia there would have to be rules that are very strict, therules would also have to take away the freedom of the civilians, because freedom makes people do waht they want. Once you give someone the freedom to do anything they start to take advantage of it. It not only takes the government, but the commitment of the civilians. The civillians need to be able to obey the laws for the plans of creating a utopia to work. if people don't obey then you're not going to get anywhere  in creating a utopia. In ordder to becomea utopiapeople would also follow morals andhave trust in everybody because if everyone had trust in each other the world  would be easier to be a utopia because the trust would make them believe that we are doing a right thing by creating it.              

does the charecter have meaningful interactions with other charecters?

Currently the book I am reading The Giver by Lois lowry is an interesting book based on the setting where life is perfect and where new things aren't experienced to the people. The way the life in this book is controlled is because of the "The Comittee"(group of officials), the comittee is never defied by the people because of there accustom to the way of life they have always had for generations. Yet even though the charecter follows this way of life he learns new things about the community, which is met by the meaningful interactions with charecters.

One meaningful interaction with a charecter is when he meets Larissa. Jonas learns more about "release" which is where people go once they are considered old enough or when babies aren't healthy enough. It is described as going somewhere else, but this is a guess that is made by the peolple of the community. The people don't reall.y know what release is,it is ironic for the fact that the community is very specific, but they describe release as such a broad term. In this part of the book Larissa describes release as a mysterious sort of thing, quote "Nobody knows where they go". Which Jonas finds strange because of the fact that release was just a pleasant leave from the community. This scene is very meaningful because this is where Jonas first learns that the community isn't a place where everything isn't kept a secret, which is ironic for the fact that the community's important moral is to not lie, even in the sense that you are saying a hyperbole like "it's a million degrees outside". Which is punishable in the community.

Another meaningful interaction Jonas encounters with another charecter is with the Giver. This is probably the biggest interaction Jonas has in the book. The first meeting Jonas has with the Giver is meaningful because Jonas learns that the perfect world he's living in isnt always the perfect world he thought it was. Jonas learns about pain that he has never experienced in the community besides pain, like falling of a bike or crushing your finger in the door. Jonas also learns about the original land it used to be before the perfect land he lived in was made. Jonas learns of the climate change that was made, how natural landscapes were broke down just to make there life easier. Which kind of describes the way there community is run. If your not good enough your released just how babies are if they don't reach the requirements that considers them a healthy baby. Also if your not good enough your kicked out, or released to anohter territory. The Giver takes away Jonas's imaginary blindfold and shows him reality.

Jonas also has a meaningful interaction with the charecter Fiona. Fiona is the girl that Jonas volunteers with for the old care takers. Fiona is where Jonas first describes his feelings of want. Jonas volunteered with her for the old and has a dream about it almost as a dream about sexual intentions, about him wanting to get Fiona to get in the bathtub so he could wash her. Which is normal, but the community takes precautions by giving them medicine, which shows how the lives of the people in the community is controlled by the commitee. It shows how the commitee only cares about the order of the community and not the wants of the people. It shows that the commitee cares more about the town then the actual people living in it. This is also a surprising interaction between Jonas and a charecter because Jonas finally expresses a want for the pleasant feeling he had of the dream of Fiona in the bathtub. Which is surprising because wants aren't heard of in the book becasue everybody obeys the order of the commitee and never asks for anything else, yet Jonas defies it.

Jonas has meaningful interactions throughout the whole book, that shows Jonas's growth as a charecter. Perfectness is the life that is described in the book, the perfectness that Jonas is starting to subside. As well as learning things of the community he has never known or thought to have exist.