The Sky Is Everywhere 2

Thursday (February 14, 2013)

"I have a horrible thought: He only thinks I'm pretty because he never met Bailey, followed by a really terrible, horrible thought: I'm glad he never met her. I shake my head, try to erase my mind." The Sky Is Everywhere, by Jandy Nelson (p.93).

This quote resumes what is going on in the novel. Lennie is dealing with mixed feeling about her sisters death. She still does not accept her sister's death, and she misses her like crazy, but she cannot help liking the feeling that boys actually talk to her now that she's not arround catching everyone's attention and leaving her in the shadows. That obviously makes her feel guilty, and it gets worst when she starts developing feelings for her sister's boyfriend, who she was going to get married to before she dies, as well as she has a crush on the new French speaking student in her school.

The Sky Is Everywhere

"The rest of the day blurs by and before the final bell, I sneak out and duck into the woods. I don't want to take the roads home, don't want to risk seeing anyone from school, especially Sarah, who informed me that while I've been in hiding, she's been reading up on loss and according to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through - but she, and the experts, and Gram, for that matter, don't get it. I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark." - The Sky Is Everywhere, by Jandy Nelson.

 This quote represents how the main character Lennie feels about her sister's lost. The whole book is about how she overcomes all of it while starting to build a new life and growing as a person. In a way, loosing her older sister helps her find her own way.