How Logan's Character Changed Throughout The Book After

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What if you didn't get a chance to say good-bye and felt like everything was your fault?? The book After is about how Lacey’s and her family's world falls apart when her dad is killed in a car accident. And she feels like it’s her fault. If she hadn’t taken a lot of time getting ready that morning, it never would have happened. Her brother Logan wouldn’t drink. And her little brother would still have two parent. And when Lacey gets the chance to make a difference in the lives of some people at school, she takes it. Except she didn’t count on meeting a guy like Sam and fall in love with him. The three character that changed throughout the book are Lacey, Logan, and their little brother.

In the book After, Logan changed emotionally, physically. Logan changed emotionally, he began to get drunk, after his father died the people felt pity towards him and from he got a popular girlfriend and because she is popular she gets invited to every single party so he goes and gets drunk. He also changed physically, he is older now not really old but yeah, he acts like a grown up and he eighteen years old but when his father
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Lacey changed emotionally, she had this wall around her to protect herself from being hurt again, she didn't want to let anyone in her life, her dad died and so she doesn't want to love again nor she wants help because she doesn't want to be hurt. She also changed mentally, after her dad dies she feel like she has to keep her family strong, she starts acting like a grown up, she takes care of her family, she hopes that very thing would come back the way it was before. She makes a group that contains people who lost their parents and people who parents are getting divorced, and it emotionally helped the people that were in it, they became more open about everything, they felt like they were sort of normal again. And that's how she changed emotionally and mentally after the

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