Alice In Time By Penelope Bush

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At the beginning of the book i just finished the last thing i was thinking was that it was possible to compare my young adult self to a preteen girl in a story. Somehow no matter what page i turned to i felt exactly the same. Dealing with problems the same. Even the way we thought was scarily similar. Imagine imagining almost the reciprocation of a dream room, imagine thinking about how you were back in middle school starting from 8 grade year. She’s like the other half of me when i was younger. Besides the bratty ways. Which is why Alice, the protagonist of “Alice in time” by Penelope Bush and I are similar in more than one way then i expected. We both share just about the same views of the world, are viewed by the world in various perspectives …show more content…
She’s assisting her brother into his wedding outfit as her mother scurries off to her job attempting to ignore the fact the one she divorced is getting remarried. She hates her mother, she’s annoyed by her little brother and the day dream she has of being the perfect little girl to be whisked away to a dream family crumbles right in front of her. She believes she’s ugly she feels unwanted and she loses everything when attempting to get a chance and blames herself. If only she could be better ,if only she was cool and smarter. But alice won’t see it that way until she finds the deepest problem. What has she done for anyone else...why only …show more content…
Since she herself didn’t quite understand her life, life pushed her back and gave her a chance to see what and why it was like that. She (as her 6 year old self) takes bits and pieces apart from her life as it was back then and mended it. Her grandmother’s death was impossible to change and after seeing that she began to realizes that life was the way it was for a reason, but if she had done some things there would be a better outcome.

If i were given the chance to go back in time i’d change plenty of things i did, how i was treated and courses of action that would give me a better life. My mother dealt with depressions and left her kids, my sisters aren’t pest but we slowly needed to be pulled together. In my past there was nothing but chaos as i lived in a house of 7. If i could go back in time to bring my mother to a new light i would. If it couldn’t change anything then i wouldn’t mind changing nothing but promising to be

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