Lit Circle Letter (part 3)

    Alright, here we go. I actually haven't done a Lit Circle Letter for two week, but I decided I NEEDED to get my act together and straighten out my priorities. The young adult romance novel I am currently reading is another typical high school favorite. It starts off with Remy Starr and and simple summer romance plot. Remy is eighteen and living her last summer before moving to Stanford in the fall. In the "between-time" she meets a boy named Dexter who shows her a thing or two about love and how she was completely wrong about it. She was a pessimist about love and was always into the short-term, no commitment, kinds of relationships because of her mother and all the failed marriages. 

"But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?"

If I'm recalling correctly, I think it was Remy's mother that was saying this. This quote basically sums up the entire turning point in the book. Remy basically went through what freshmen English teachers call "A hero's journey". In the beginning of the novel, she thought she was tough by breaking guys hearts, however, after she broke up with Dexter, she can't stop thinking about WHY. She then comes to the conclusion that it was not because there was no chemistry or that she simply lost interest, but because she was afraid of what they're future might be. After her epiphany, she realizes she was not strong, but in fact weak. All along, she had just been putting up a front so that she would never get hurt because she saw how many times her mother was hurt and her father's lullaby that said he will always let her down. Therefore she closed up all her walls and only stayed in short term relationships. The moral of this so was basically stating that you should take chances for the moment, because if you spend all you're time planning every little detail for the future, one day you'll look back and wonder where you childhood went.