Thursday, December 6, 2007

Original Diagnostic Essay

Forever In Blue
The Sisterhood of the traveling pants is a popular book that started a series that later became a movie. Many girls can say that they relate to this series, but to me I feel that I do more than most.
In every book, four best friends leave each other for the summer. In the last book they finally move away from each other to college. While reading this book I started to realize that the things that they went through and the events that they experienced, connected to my life almost ironically. I’ve never been so closely described in a book. This is mostly because near the start of high school I was pulled, actually torn away from my best friends in the world and the only life I have ever known. It was so hard on me, but my friends and I have always been there for each other and still are. In Forever in Blue the girls end up having to fly to Greece just to help one of the girls, Lena. That is something that me or my four girls would do and have done. I was put in the hospital after getting in a car accident, and Jen jumped on a plane and was down here within 5 hours from when she found out and the other three girls were emailing me everyday. That kind of connection and love is overflowed in the book.
This book was not only able to connect to me but it also changed my life. For the past few years since I have lived in Arizona my friends and I have been close but it has still been really hard on not only me but all five of us, because we all miss each other so much. To be able to read this book and notice that the charactors are as close to each other as my friends and I are it made me very interested in reading further. As I did keep reading I realized that although it was only a book I could take tips and take examples from the experiences that the girls went through together.
I actually read this book the summer before I started at Northern Arizona University. The fact that they left each other for college and that was about the time I was reading the book, it was a very crucial point in my life to read something that was so closely related to me. It was also in a way comforting to me to be able to have such a close connection to something even if it’s only a book. It also was very good for me to see how they handled being so far away from their friends and family because it helped me so much.
I would definitely suggest for anyone to read this book in less than a heartbeat. It is a book based more for the female population, but it is still a good book to read for anyone who is interested. It is a real story, and very down to earth. The book has a very unique feel, and is a great book to read if you want a book that could relate to you.
Because this book was so special to me and so well related to me I have read it again. I haven’t read it twice but many times. This book is so good and so well written that I just can’t get over how much I like it. The feel I get from this book is almost personal. I love this book. The story is such an amazing story that I am willing to read again and again. I do actually plan on reading this book for the sixth time, as soon as I get the chance.
Forever In Blue is an amazing story that is real and entertaining. It is a great book that is perfect to anyone that wants to read it, and anyone who is willing to give it a chance.


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