Along for the Ride Sarah Dessen Blog #2

While we read books, I believe that everyone have  their own favorite character. Auden was mine favorite character in  the book Along for the ride by Sarah Dessen. What interest me the most about Auden is that how much she changed from the beginning of  the book all the way to the end of the book. Also I was able to connect with Auden is some way or the other also.


Auden who starts out as being a little shy person, completely transforms herself into being very self confident and not being scared to speak up. Auden went to her dads house for the summer and she had to deal with her step mom and her step sister witch most of the time she did not really mind. However she always liked to keep to herself and never really talked with anyone about any of her problems or thinks that was bothering her. However when she meat Eli the guy at the town where her dad lived everything seemed to change. She finally had a person that she cloud talk with and open up. That is where I start thinking if one of the reasons why she kept to herself before was that she really did not have anyone or trust anyone to talk about her feeling. So Auden really gained a lot of trust for this guy and really opened up about her problems.


Of of the reasons why I connect with Auden is tha her parents are divorces liked mines. I know how does that feel and how hard it is sometimes to take it. That is why I believe tha Auden really did not want to talk about her problems because she though she can just deal with it herself witch is not always the right think to do. Dealing with divorce between your parents can be extremely hard. It was for me and I imagine that it was hard for her too.
http://marriage101.org/divorce-rates-in-america/
This website provides information about divorce and that divorce rate is growing up.

While Auden was at her dads for the summer she changes in a good way. After her dad and his wife (her step mam) were fighting, she wanted to stop her dad from making the same mistake that he made while he was with her mom. I believe that Auden really grew up while she was at her dads and it made her to realize a lot.She started to realize that there are people that she can open up and talk about her problems. Also she wanted to help her dad relationship and make it better and make her dad to realize not to make the same mistakes.

Sometime change is good. I believe that Auden became so much more independent and she really found out how to speak up and be who she is.It was very interesting for me to see Auden grow and change for the better.