Looking For Jennifer Quotes

Looking for JJ by: Anne Cassidy. The main character of this book is Jennifer Jones, who killed her friend in a fit of anger at the age of ten. She now lives normally at the age of sixteen, as Alice Tully a “normal” teenage girl who has normal problems. Throughout the book the main character, Jennifer, shows many different traits, but two important traits that make her who she is in the books is extreme aggression and fearfulness. Jennifer Jones was a very aggressive child when she was younger. During her childhood, she was abandoned by her parents and was forced to live with her grandmother or alone. Jennifer was sick of living in her grandmother’s place and attacked her dog; “She picked it up in one hand as though it was a stick, not a doll …show more content…
Then she raised the plastic Macy above her head and brought it crashing down on the dogs back.”(Cassidy 89) This shows Jennifer’s aggression when facing uncomfortable living situations, and her cruelty towards powerless animals. Also, another incident that shows Jennifer’s rage is when she sees Michelle and Sonia bullying her friend Lucy, and Jennifer attacks Sonia; “Jennifer hated Sonia. She couldn’t stand to look at her silly face for a minute longer. She raised the recorder and banged it on her forehead. A single second was all it took. It was only plastic but it still made a thwack sound…She watched as Sonia’s face reddened and crumpled” (Cassidy 150). Finally, at the end Jennifer is saddened by Michelle’s words “Don’t bother following me/ you and me aren’t friends anymore!” (Cassidy 111) Jennifer is at a loss for words and is unable to protest Michelle’s withdrawal from her friendship and allows her actions to speak for her instead of her words“ Be my friend, she wanted to say, she might have …show more content…
“Why had the man in the leather jacket written them out? What was it to him? She rang Rosie. Her fingers rigid, she jabbed at the telephone and asked to speak to Rose Sutherland, and said it was urgent” (Cassidy 16) Alice is afraid of having her past exposed. Carol Jones then sends Jennifer to her grandmother because of her threadbare lifestyle she could no longer take care of Jennifer. Jennifer hated living in there as her mother would only visit sometimes and she had to live with her grandmother who hated her. “Jennifer felt a sense of panic/you can’t do anything to stop her going! It seemed to say. So she pushed herself back into the settee and sat there rigid, as though she was tied there and couldn’t move” (Cassidy 86) Jennifer was constantly afraid that her mother would never come pick her up and she would have to stay and live at her grandmothers place. Furthermore, at the end of the story after the death of Michelle; Jennifer is afraid of getting caught as the murderer and lies to Lucy “And…. It might be better not to mention that we went up to the lake. You know Mrs. Livingstone doesn’t allow Michelle to go. She might blame me. Or even blame you, and you don’t want that” (Cassidy 234) Jennifer also lies