I Ll Give You The Sun Book Report

The three major events of the novel I’ll Give You the Sun all deal with Noah and Jude’s mother, Dianna, which include her growing “favoritism” of Noah and aggravation of Jude, her infidelity, and her death. As for how she treated the her children, she seemed to prefer Noah because of his natural innocence, kindness, and artistic ability, while she acted as if she loathed Jude. Jude really only acted out because of her jealousy of Noah and her mother’s relationship, but her rebellion only exasperated her mother further. By treating them this way, she drove the siblings apart for each other as well, causing them to sabotage one another and begin to despise the other twin. As for her adultery, her affair affects her lover, Guillermo Garcia, because …show more content…
Despite being twins, they are fraternal, so they don’t look anything alike. Noah looks like his mother, with brown hair and and darker skin, while Jude takes after her father, who is blonde. When Noah describes her hair, he says, “. . . I use all of my yellows drawing it. It’s hundreds of miles long and everyone in Northern California has to worry about getting tangled up in it. . .” (3). Noah and Jude are a little eccentric, as when Noah was 13, he often described his discomfort and disgust as, “[Him barfing] bright green barf all over the table,” (20), and when Jude is 16, she often has conversations with her departed Grandmother. Noah’s point of view is told before his mother’s passing, so throughout the book, he mostly deals with his “feud” with Jude and his feelings for Brian, while Jude’s point of view is told after her mother’s death, where she must deal with making her mother happy with her again and keeping herself away from the charming and alluring Oscar. Jude has to stay away from him because she feels her interactions with boys is what brought her mother’s death, and these “interactions” have also caused her a lot of emotional damage, as she was taken advantage of at a young