What character do you most dislike?
As much as I have to admit that I liked this book, I will
also say that Alex pisses me off the most. I like him so much as a character,
but his personality is so upsetting. He is obviously the gang character who has
to prove his street cred so he does things that he knows are morally wrong.
Alex deep down has a good heart—he is kind and caring, but on the outside he is
so afraid to let anyone see that person. What I hated most about him was his
interaction with Brit in the beginning of the book. From the initial
interaction on the first day of school where he blatantly objectifies her by
looking her entire body up and down in front of a group of guys to prove a
point—he doesn’t stop at this. When Alex finds Brittany extremely drunk on the beach, he
considers having sex with her to win the bet. In the end, he decides not to,
since he’s drunk and high and wants to be at his best when he finally hooks up
with Brittany. Seriously. Not because it would be wrong to take advantage of a
girl, but because he’s drunk. Anyone else would see this comment as a play on
his crude character, but again, I believe he is better than that and perhaps he
just didn’t want his true morals that he sets for himself to be lost. Brittany
is also someone who I had mixed feelings about in the beginning. The one thing
that I disliked most about her was the fact that she felt she had to hide her
sister who has CP. She admitted that only her best friend had ever seen her
sister Shelley, and I hated that. I initially thought that she was embarrassed
of Shelley and didn’t want people on the outside to see what their family is
like, but later we realize that she does it somewhat intentionally. Brit does
it to protect Shelley—she fears that Shelley will be teased if people know
about her, and for that I can understand her reasoning for wanting people not
to know about her. Even though these two characters have their fatal flaws, I
feel they can be justified because there is usually an underlying reasoning on
why they act the way they do.
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