Throughout the last 10 days, I have been busy reading Sarah Dessen’s What Happened to Goodbye, and I am currently on page 271. The main character of this book is McLean. She is living through her high school career while jumping from school to high school throughout the country due to her father’s job as a restaurant renovator. While going to different schools throughout her years, she changes her name and interests with each new school. While trying to be rebellious this time around, she meets Dave at a party. She spends a lot of time with Dave and finds out from Riley that Dave has feelings for her. McLean also meets a student ambassador named Deb who does not really fit in, but tries her best to accommodate Deb into her friends’ plans. Ever
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My latest prediction is about McLean’s dad, Gus, and his relationship with the restaurant he is renovating’s main waitress named Opal. When the novel started, Opal had a stubborn guise to her, but as Gus is starting to get to know her, they seem to be opening up to each other more. The latest event that has lead me to believe that they will be something more than coworkers is when she got home from school and her dad and opal were sitting on the coach together and “they both burst out laughing again, like this was the funniest thing in the world” (Dessen 206). Gus and Opal were discussing work at the house but McLean did not understand why this could not be done at the restaurant. I predict that in the future of this novel, Gus and Opal will develop more feelings for each other and end up dating. I think that McLean will be happy with it because she realizes how lonely her dad is without her mom. Also, Opal is turning out to be a cordial lady that McLean would not mind spending more time around. This is the main event that I have been predicting so far in this …show more content…
My biggest question is for McLean’s mom, Katherine Hamilton. I want to know why she left Gus in the first place. She had a perfect, relaxing life living with McLean and Gus, while running the family restaurant. When she met Peter Hamilton, Gus’ favorite football team’s head coach, she turned into someone different and had all the opulent goods that life had to offer. The only reason that I can think of that would have made her leave is that Gus was spending too much time working at the restaurant and did not have enough time dedicated to her. McLean is still not pleased with her mother’s decision even after all the years that have passed and to prove it, she said, “It didn’t mean it was okay to run off with another man. Especially the coach of your husband and daughter’s favorite team” (Dessen 10). This is just one of the countless questions that I have had while reading What Happened to Goodbye.
Throughout the past two weeks, I have been connecting, predicting, and questioning. with Sarah Dessen’s What Happened to Goodbye. I have really enjoyed reading this book so far and am looking for another novel similar to this one for my next novel to read. I think I deserve a 9.5/10 on this journal because I took a lot of time to thoroughly write the ways I have used my active reading strategies, and I also carefully read and re-read to catch any
My latest prediction is about McLean’s dad, Gus, and his relationship with the restaurant he is renovating’s main waitress named Opal. When the novel started, Opal had a stubborn guise to her, but as Gus is starting to get to know her, they seem to be opening up to each other more. The latest event that has lead me to believe that they will be something more than coworkers is when she got home from school and her dad and opal were sitting on the coach together and “they both burst out laughing again, like this was the funniest thing in the world” (Dessen 206). Gus and Opal were discussing work at the house but McLean did not understand why this could not be done at the restaurant. I predict that in the future of this novel, Gus and Opal will develop more feelings for each other and end up dating. I think that McLean will be happy with it because she realizes how lonely her dad is without her mom. Also, Opal is turning out to be a cordial lady that McLean would not mind spending more time around. This is the main event that I have been predicting so far in this …show more content…
My biggest question is for McLean’s mom, Katherine Hamilton. I want to know why she left Gus in the first place. She had a perfect, relaxing life living with McLean and Gus, while running the family restaurant. When she met Peter Hamilton, Gus’ favorite football team’s head coach, she turned into someone different and had all the opulent goods that life had to offer. The only reason that I can think of that would have made her leave is that Gus was spending too much time working at the restaurant and did not have enough time dedicated to her. McLean is still not pleased with her mother’s decision even after all the years that have passed and to prove it, she said, “It didn’t mean it was okay to run off with another man. Especially the coach of your husband and daughter’s favorite team” (Dessen 10). This is just one of the countless questions that I have had while reading What Happened to Goodbye.
Throughout the past two weeks, I have been connecting, predicting, and questioning. with Sarah Dessen’s What Happened to Goodbye. I have really enjoyed reading this book so far and am looking for another novel similar to this one for my next novel to read. I think I deserve a 9.5/10 on this journal because I took a lot of time to thoroughly write the ways I have used my active reading strategies, and I also carefully read and re-read to catch any