Lauren

I actually had something to mention from the conversation we had on Tuesday. We talked about how we view Lauren as a character herself. And I found a passage in the beginning of the novel to really speak to her personality and character a lot. It is on page 7, where she talks about her fathers God and how it is different from her God. For one, I thought it was interesting the amount of God and religion is mentioned in this novel. Knowing that Lauren believes in a God, but not the same one her father did, confused and intrigued me. I can relate to this on some level due to my upbringing and religion, but I won’t get too much into that, other than the fact that I can understand not believing in the same things your parents/family do. Aside from that, this paragraph at the beinning of chapter two shows who Lauren is and a big part of her personality. This shows her individuality, her need to separate herself from others, her curiosity, and her reblousness. On another note though, this passage shows how she is scared to rebel as well. She does not believe in the same thing as her father and yet continues to pretend and act like she does, therefore showing how she is still hesitant and in fear of the outside and everything else she does not know. All of these things are then built upon through out the book but I noticed them all within this paragraph alone.