Kathy Dobie can be described in many ways. Her adventure, saintly, saddening moments captured many readers. She was a girl trying to fit in with others. Everyone has gone through this stage growing up. She used herself as a tool to help others. During moments, they were enlightening while others were heartbreaking. In result, this paper will focus on Kathy as a saint to others.
In the beginning of this novel Kathy Dobie started as a young girl trying to find her place.
“Perhaps every child born to a big family feels the same¬¬—that the family itself has a personality. To me, The Family was an entity, being with needs and desires, an appetite all its own” (Dobie 14). She felt as though her family had become a unit