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A review by hikaoru
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
5.0
It was angsty. It made me mad. It made me smile.
Park. I imagined him like a cross between Song Sam Dong from Dream High and the alien from My Love from Another Star. I know that they're played by the same actor but blame the eyeliner scene from the book. He love comic books, he knows taekwondo and he adores music. He's almost perfect. Perhaps he is too perfect. I would like it better if the book is about him rather than Eleanor.
Eleanor. I'm not sure if she really is fat. But she is a girl. She seems real. How she act regarding everything. The bullies, the sexual innuendos and even thinking on who the culprit was. Despite the fact that she doesn't really grow or learn anything from her interaction with Park. Or the fact that she is selfish. I do not like her. That is obvious. But, she shows how girls really are sometimes. How teenage girls focus on nothing but themselves.
Their stories may seem mundane, the usual things that teenagers face. This things are real. It was a huge problem to us. And at the time nothing else matters. The fact that this book portrays almost everything that seems important at the time. Whether your family loves you for you or they have to? The fact that you feel like you're way different from everybody. Making new friends when everybody already knows everybody and you're just the outsider. There are lots of issues and they were unresolved. They were not meant to. Not really. They were just there. And if you look back, the issues are still there, some you know how to handle, some are best just left forgotten.
All of these sounds so depressing.
But I really hope the last three words of the book was I Love You. I'm betting it is.
My mind is already made up. Eleanor and Park will get married and live to a ripe old age. I'm a hopeless romantic. That's what happen when the author let's the reader decides what's gonna happen.
P/S: Despite the fact that this story wants to include PoC, it doesn't really contribute to the story.
P/P/S: Is it weird to wonder why Eleanor still turns out okay even if she have such a 'hard' life? I have no idea why I think she has this mean girl vibe instead of a borderline depressive ones.
Park. I imagined him like a cross between Song Sam Dong from Dream High and the alien from My Love from Another Star. I know that they're played by the same actor but blame the eyeliner scene from the book. He love comic books, he knows taekwondo and he adores music. He's almost perfect. Perhaps he is too perfect. I would like it better if the book is about him rather than Eleanor.
Eleanor. I'm not sure if she really is fat. But she is a girl. She seems real. How she act regarding everything. The bullies, the sexual innuendos and even thinking on who the culprit was. Despite the fact that she doesn't really grow or learn anything from her interaction with Park. Or the fact that she is selfish. I do not like her. That is obvious. But, she shows how girls really are sometimes. How teenage girls focus on nothing but themselves.
Their stories may seem mundane, the usual things that teenagers face. This things are real. It was a huge problem to us. And at the time nothing else matters. The fact that this book portrays almost everything that seems important at the time. Whether your family loves you for you or they have to? The fact that you feel like you're way different from everybody. Making new friends when everybody already knows everybody and you're just the outsider. There are lots of issues and they were unresolved. They were not meant to. Not really. They were just there. And if you look back, the issues are still there, some you know how to handle, some are best just left forgotten.
All of these sounds so depressing.
But I really hope the last three words of the book was I Love You. I'm betting it is.
My mind is already made up. Eleanor and Park will get married and live to a ripe old age. I'm a hopeless romantic. That's what happen when the author let's the reader decides what's gonna happen.
P/S: Despite the fact that this story wants to include PoC, it doesn't really contribute to the story.
P/P/S: Is it weird to wonder why Eleanor still turns out okay even if she have such a 'hard' life? I have no idea why I think she has this mean girl vibe instead of a borderline depressive ones.