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Conflict- Macy's boyfriend breaks up with her.

Submitted by Caitlin on February 8, 2008 - 15:49.

While reading this book I found there has been many different conflicts, one of the main conflicts is when Macy’s boyfriend Jason breaks up with her. When Macy’s boyfriend breaks up with her, she feels lost without him at first. He was her only close friend that she could actually talk to. He was the only one she ever hung out with, she was around him all the time. I think that eventually she will learn how to make new friends. When you focus your life on one person and forget about your other friends it’s hard to gain your old friends back. You have to earn their trust back which is very hard. She makes new friends instead of getting her old friends back. She will learn how to be independent. Macy felt like he helped her to be as close to perfect as you can get. Sometimes she felt like he tried to run her life, and change her so she was perfect. Now Macy can make her own decisions and be herself without being perfect. At first she was shocked, she didn’t really know what to do without Jason. After she met this boy Wes, he becomes a close friend of Macy’s. She can talk to him about stuff that used to talk to Jason about.

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Conflict

Submitted by Allyson on February 11, 2008 - 15:38.

In my opinion one of the main conflicts of this book is the fact that Macy stops running. Her father died while running and she felt that it was her fault. He had invited her to run that morning and she refused, wanting to sleep more. This person v. self conflict is important because running used to make her feel good, and she was good at it. It now makes her think of him and how she wasn’t there. Over the course of the book she asks herself why she didn’t get up, why she didn’t go with her dad that one last time. If she had been there would she have been able to save him? She puts herself through a lot of guilt.
I think that her new friend Wes will help her to overcome the shock of his death. He will convince her that thinking of him is a good thing. Her father would have wanted her to run because it made her happy and he would have wanted her to be.

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