In the novel Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer,hope our protagonist In this book there are secondary characters like braverman ,addie and G.T. Stoop. In this story Hope is trying to show she can live up to her name. She realizes there are more struggles in life then she thought. But you just need to look on the positive side of life and love who you have. At the begging of the story Hope just moved With her aunt Addie to the stairways diner hope changed her name to Hope at age 12 (used to be tulip) and she is 17 now. Hope shows how positive she is about everything, she talks about her family such as her birth mom and dad she wants, them to come back and be a family. She never wonders why they left or gets down on herself she just always is hoping
