Story Of A Girl

Santa claus brought me some new books to read over break. One of them, called Story Of A Girl by Sara Zarr, I did end up reading during my free time. It is a national book award finalist book. I didn't like it that much. It was decent, but I expected it to be better with all the praise it was receiving. My mom said the worker at Barnes and Noble highly reccomended the book and told her I would just love it. The novel was all about a thirteen year old girl, Deanna Lambert, who's dad walked in on one of her many hook ups with seventeen year old, Tommy Webber, in the back of his old Buick late at night. Word of this event traveled all around Deanna's school, and everyone knew about the hookup. She was soon known to be the school slut. The book is about how she dealt with this sad reality. It really opened my eyes to how aware girls should be about their reputations. It also made me realize how much work it takes to regain an individuals reputation. It isn't easy to prove to everyone you aren't a slut. Once you make a poor choice and become known as easy, it is very difficult to prove to the world that is a false idea of who you are. Although it may seem like you could just deny many guys and not be known as a slut, it took Deanna way more than that to become a regular respected girl again. Once she recieved that reputation, she learned it really wasn't worth it. She wished she had waited for a guy she actually loved and hadn't rushed into things. She also learned once she was given that reputation, she was no longer respected most males. They all beleived they had a right to push her around and treat her poorly. She suffered many consequences from her hookup and regretted it greatly. The book taught me to really watch out for my reputaion for it is not easy to regain if I somehow made a horrible choice that caused a change in view about me as a person.