The Theme Of Identity In Meg Cabot's All American Girl

Since my last journal, I have been busy reading more of Meg Cabot’s All American Girl. In All American Girl, Sam has been forced into going to drawing lessons. Her first lesson at the studio did not go so well. Sam was humiliated and by the time her next lesson came around she was not going to lose her pride again. Instead of going to her drawing lesson, Sam chose to go to a music store, Static. In the store she sat next to a middle-aged man in an army uniform, listening to Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl. They both exited out of Static and noticed that the president’s motorcade was coming. The flashing lights weren’t a big surprise; the fact that the president exited the limo was a surprise. Mr. Uptown Girl was retrieving something from his coat pocket, a black pistol. The only thing Sam could think of doing was jumping on the back of Mr. Uptown Girl, causing him to lose his …show more content…
Sam is the middle child and is forced to live with a preppy cheerleader and a genius little sister. Her grades aren’t great and she always fights with her parents. Sam is a sensitive artist. She wears black to symbolize that she is taking a stand against everything. Sam tells Jack about what happened her first day at the drawing lessons and Jack tells Sam that she needs to fight the system. Sam wants to be just like Jack. The private school system is not his friend and neither are Sam’s parents. “Jack told me I need to take a stand by boycotting my drawing lessons, so I did, just like Jack would” (Cabot, 67). Even if Jack was a tepid student, Sam wanted to be just like him. Later in my novel Samantha realizes that she should be her own sensitive artist and not one like Jack. Exploring the search for identity in my novel was interesting, while exploring the search for identity, I was also exploring the search for truth in my novel. The truth on why the president was near Static the night of the attempted