The age of adolescence is a time of growth and development; emotionally and mentally. When being a teenager, a lot of the actions created can be a blurred line of confusion. Throughout To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, the main character, Lara Jean, is thrown into an unexpected situation that had been built up by her previous actions in the past. Being only sixteen, she is passed on the responsibility of taking care of her younger sister and widowed father; after her older sister, Margot, leaves to study abroad. However, her qualities of being naive, doubtful, and careless leads to her five hand-written love letters being sent to each recipient; letters that were never meant to be sent. This causes the two main people she loved to barge into
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When she was a young girl, her mother had died, leaving her to be raised by her older sister, who took on the maternal role in the family. Margot being not much older, focused on taking care of her younger sisters, her working father, her relationship, and school. Lara Jean had no real older female figure, because her sister was also growing up; leaving Lara Jean to be sheltered in. This leaves her to be more prone to believing everything she’s told and her to be afraid of the reality of the world around her. She trusts the people around her too easily and this hurts her in the end. Her naïveté affects her life, because of this she falls in love fast and hard. But all of her feelings were only meant to be locked away; she writes them down in letters for these boys and puts them in a box. An example of her naïveté would be that she had fallen in love with her sister’s boyfriend, Josh, and when they had broken up; she believed that she could have him back. “As soon as he says it, my heart does this pause, and I forget to breathe, and just for one second I’m dizzy,” (Han 41). Josh tries to reach out to her, only to still feel accepted in her family, but she mistakes it as a sign of interest. This causes her to eventually avoid him and create a fake relationship with another boy she used to love,
When she was a young girl, her mother had died, leaving her to be raised by her older sister, who took on the maternal role in the family. Margot being not much older, focused on taking care of her younger sisters, her working father, her relationship, and school. Lara Jean had no real older female figure, because her sister was also growing up; leaving Lara Jean to be sheltered in. This leaves her to be more prone to believing everything she’s told and her to be afraid of the reality of the world around her. She trusts the people around her too easily and this hurts her in the end. Her naïveté affects her life, because of this she falls in love fast and hard. But all of her feelings were only meant to be locked away; she writes them down in letters for these boys and puts them in a box. An example of her naïveté would be that she had fallen in love with her sister’s boyfriend, Josh, and when they had broken up; she believed that she could have him back. “As soon as he says it, my heart does this pause, and I forget to breathe, and just for one second I’m dizzy,” (Han 41). Josh tries to reach out to her, only to still feel accepted in her family, but she mistakes it as a sign of interest. This causes her to eventually avoid him and create a fake relationship with another boy she used to love,