Summer Reading Assignment - Eleanor and Park

Entry One

Two teenagers named Eleanor Douglas and Park Sheridan live in Omaha, Nebraska and live in the same neighborhood. Eleanor is a fifteen year old girl who is new to the school and has had many issues with her family in the past. She use to live in a foster home, but is now back with her siblings and her mother. She doesn’t like her mother’s new husband. Richie. He’s a mean nasty alcoholic who has abused her mother and treated them horrible. Eleanor is very self-conscience about her body image, and she doesn’t have anyone there to make her feel good about herself. No one understands how she feels. Being the bigger girl, who has to wear ripped up jeans, and over size men t-shirts. Her mother can’t afford to buy anything more than from the Food 4 Less store, or Good Will. Each day as Eleanor becomes more use to the new school, she meets a boy named Park. Park is a sixteen year old boy who is very quiet, and is obsessed with listening to music, and reading comic books. He lives in a household with his parents, and his younger brother Josh. Life is very simple and easy for Park. He notices Eleanor and becomes very interested as to who she is. As Eleanor and Park become closer, they notice that there relationship might be more than just a friendship. Eleanor has to keep Park a secret from her family so that she doesn’t get in trouble. As Eleanor and Park hang out more, they start to open up a little about their life. It becomes very difficult to keep this secret from her family as she falls in love with everything about Park. He understands how she feels and comforts her when things aren’t going so great. I predict that Eleanor and Park will start dating. I believe this will happen because their attention for each other is so heartwarming. You can tell how much they care for each other. I wonder if Eleanor’s family will become more suspicious as to what she’s up to, and if she’ll get in trouble or not. I can connect the book Eleanor and Park to the movie Tuck Everlasting. The girl Winnie isn’t supposed to leave outside of her house, but she meets a boy named Tuck, who she has fallen in love with and she doesn’t care if she breaks any boundaries. Eleanor is exactly like Winnie, because she wants to live her life without someone controlling it. She feels alive when she’s with Park, and knows she’s worth more than what she thinks. I can’t wait to find out what goes on with their relationship and if anything comes in the way between them.