Monday, October 19, 2009

The Truth about Forever(13-33)

Recently I started The truth about forever by Sarah Dessen, so far it is during the summer and her boyfriend just left for camp. As she finished saying goodbye to her boyfriend in the airport in reminds her of how she never got to say goodbye to her father. She has a flashback on when her father died, it was a cold morning and he woke her up early to go running, while he was waiting outside for her he had a heart attack.
"So each time my mother tossed the boxes, I'd fish them out and bring them upstairs to add to my collection. I never used any of the products, choosing instead to just believe the breathless claims on the boxes. there were a lot of ways to remember my dad. But i thought he would have especially liked that."(pg 16)

Macy's dad was obsessed with collecting products of the informercials that you see on t.v. he would constantly be purchasing them because he believed they made life easier. When he died, they kept coming in every month, so Macy would keep them as a reminder of her father and how happy the items made him. In a way I can relate to Macy, my mum's best friend died of cancer and the christmas before she died she gave me a doll. It is still in my room today and whenever I see it, it reminds me of her and all the good memories our families had together.

1 comment:

  1. Wow, jess, this is so intense. The quote that you chose is very powerful. You really get to know a lot more about the dad's character before he died when you learn that he collected things from infomercials. I like how the main girl in the story had closure with her boyfriend as she sent him off to camp, even though she didn't necessarily have closure when it came to her father.

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