Love is a very special gift that not many people are fortunate to have. It’s a wonderful thing that’s powerful, joyous, and strong but it can also be scary, challenging, and painful. Lara Jean in the novel, To all the Boys I Loved Before written by Jenny Han, ultimate goal in her life is to find the love of her life and to be in love with a boy and have the boy be in love with her. She doesn’t like to take risks or venture out of her comfort zone. She learns the hard way that her current ways of doing and handling things are wrong and that she must change if she ever wants to achieve her goal. When Lara falls in love with a boy she writes him a heartfelt letter confessing her love to him. The letters are never sent out to the people; just hidden
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“Dear Peter…” (page 355). This is the beginning of a love letter that she is about to write him. By writing another love letter to him shows she’s ready for a relationship and that she is finally taking risks. Throughout the whole novel, Lara Jean is convinced that she has feelings for Josh who is also her older sister’s ex boyfriend. The whole point of Lara’s and Peter’s fake relationship was to make Josh jealous for Lara and make Peter’s ex girlfriend jealous for Peter. At the very end of the story Lara realizes that her love for Josh was nonexistent and that she only liked him because she knew that she couldn’t have him which was the pattern with all of the other boys she wrote the love letters for. “This is the moment I realize I don’t love him that I haven’t for awhile. That maybe I never did. Because he’s right there for the taking: I could kiss him again; I could make him mine. But I don’t want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, just stop” (page 283). When the fake relationship was happening with Peter, Lara really got to know him and saw that he wasn’t the obnoxious jock that everyone thinks he is but he’s actually a really sweet and caring guy. As Lara spends more time with Peter, she thinks of Josh less and less and soon realizes that she never liked him and that she likes Peter. She hopes that Peter may possibly have feelings for her as well but she is too
“Dear Peter…” (page 355). This is the beginning of a love letter that she is about to write him. By writing another love letter to him shows she’s ready for a relationship and that she is finally taking risks. Throughout the whole novel, Lara Jean is convinced that she has feelings for Josh who is also her older sister’s ex boyfriend. The whole point of Lara’s and Peter’s fake relationship was to make Josh jealous for Lara and make Peter’s ex girlfriend jealous for Peter. At the very end of the story Lara realizes that her love for Josh was nonexistent and that she only liked him because she knew that she couldn’t have him which was the pattern with all of the other boys she wrote the love letters for. “This is the moment I realize I don’t love him that I haven’t for awhile. That maybe I never did. Because he’s right there for the taking: I could kiss him again; I could make him mine. But I don’t want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, just stop” (page 283). When the fake relationship was happening with Peter, Lara really got to know him and saw that he wasn’t the obnoxious jock that everyone thinks he is but he’s actually a really sweet and caring guy. As Lara spends more time with Peter, she thinks of Josh less and less and soon realizes that she never liked him and that she likes Peter. She hopes that Peter may possibly have feelings for her as well but she is too