This book is going to be a movie and I cannot wait. Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. There’s a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises…Park. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. Park… He knows she’ll love a song before he plays it for her.
Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough…Eleanor. Standing behind him until he turns his head. The narrative does not say what the message is, but it does say that it consists of just three words: enough for it to possibly say “I love you.Eleanor… Red hair, wrong clothes. At the end of the book, Park seems to have moved on from Eleanor when he finally receives a postcard from her. Park makes Eleanor to promise that she will call and write, but when Park returns to Omaha, Eleanor does not read his letters for several months. Paul so that Eleanor can live with her uncle. She knows that she has to run away.Įleanor enlists Park’s help, and the two travel to St. Furthermore, he has scribbled messages all over her stuff and she realizes that it’s the same handwriting that the lewd messages are written in. It becomes increasingly apparent that their relationship is blossoming into love.Īfter going on her first date with Park, Eleanor returns home to find that her stepfather, Richie, has ransacked her belongings.
They do their homework together, have dinner, and talk about their days. In reality, she spends her evenings at Park’s house. At first the two are unable to discern who the author of the messages is, so they determine to keep their eyes peeled.Įleanor is not allowed to hang out with boys, so she tells her mom that she goes to hang out with a girl called Tina every day after school. They are sexually inappropriate and they enrage Park. Before long, the two youngsters are holding hands and are discovering that what they feel for each other is stronger than they originally thought possible.Īs their relationship blossoms, Eleanor and Park become increasingly distraught over lewd messages that are being left anonymously on Eleanor’s notebook. They spend their daily bus rides together reading comic books and listening to mix-tapes that they have made for each other. Their friendship quickly solidifies into something stronger. Over time, we learn that Park and Eleanor have very different lives: Park comes from a loving middle-class home, whereas Eleanor lives in an abusive household with her stepfather, Richie.
When no one on the bus will let her sit beside them, Park lets her sit with him and a friendship slowly develops between the two. She dresses in baggy, boys’ clothes and was large in stature, with red hair. In many ways, Eleanor is a target for bullies.
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