As the story begins, the main character, named Piper Paisley, is talking to her friends Jillian and Claire in the candy shop she works in, called Jan The Candy Man, and she is stocking up the truffle pyramids while Jillian talks to her about Valentine's day, which happens to be Piper’s birthday. Jillian is trying to convince Piper to help her make a plan for Valentine’s day.
My story is told by Piper, the main character, and is in the point of view of the first person. An example from the book would be; ‘I shrug. “I just don’t see the point. It’s not like it’s required.”’ I know it is in first person point of view because the narrator says ‘I’.
Some supporting characters include Peter, who is an ex-boyfriend of Piper, Stuart, who is Claire’s boyfriend (ex later on), Frank Wishman, Charlie’s dad who is a painter, and Beau, Piper’s step dad. What makes Peter important is he is a …show more content…
I think that it isn’t actually that romantic, and it isn’t all that it’s said to be. I think that Valentine’s day is just a silly day where everyone gets a weird heart shaped candy or something and funny valentine cards. Everyone thinks that it’s a lovey dovey day but to me, it just doesn’t seem like it. I don’t really like Valentine’s day, so I can relate to Piper there.
The second major connection I can make to my novel would be that being a teenager is hard, that there is a lot of drama involved in it, and that at the end of the day when you go home, you have to do homework and sometimes go to work. When I was younger I couldn’t wait to be a teenager because I thought it was cool, but now I realize it isn’t as cool or fun as I thought it would be. Being a teenager is harder than others think it