blog 4-prep

For this week’s blog I have decided to talk about the relationship between Lee Fiora and one of her best friends Martha. Throughout the novel Lee and Martha become very good friends and end up rooming together for three years. In the beginning of their friendship Martha, in the perspective of Lee, is a social outcast. She considers herself pretty much equal to Martha in many ways. This part of the book is the time where Lee figures out who she is and also is very confused by it. She knows she can tell Martha anything, but sometimes doesn’t know if she should speak EXACTLY what she is thinking. As multiple events go on Lee is shocked of how Martha has grown. Although she was still “a social outcast” she could talk to people and had some other friends other than herself. With this Lee started to think of her self as smaller. I think at this point in the book Lee was jealous of Martha. At this section in the book Martha had just won senior prefect and proved to many that it was possible. I feel that Lee is surprised that someone like Martha could actually win a political election like that. After Martha wins the prefect role and finds out that she gets to hangout with Cross Sugarman, Lee’s biggest crush, Lee is devastated. She doesn’t understand why she is such a loser and why Martha all of a sudden got this popularity. Although she is happy for Martha she is extremely jealous. In Lee’s senior year she figures herself out. Lee and Martha are still best friends, but she finally realizes that she wasn’t the loser all those years. People had really liked her, but she never took the time to branch out. Lee spends most of the time sharing her thoughts in the story as if she were telling them from the future.