Zoe H.

Zoë Hutcher
Someone Like You
Sarah Dessen
Just Right
Finished

Scarlet is 16 and she is 9 months pregnant. She and her best friend Halley are going to prom. Scarlet is going with her friend, Cameron, and Halley is going with her mom’s best friend’s son, Noah. The parents are gathering around and taking pictures of them.

I think that in the book Someone Like You there are good messages. One of these messages is you shouldn’t change just to fit in. An example of when someone changed to fit in is when Halley was at a party, where she drank alcohol and did drugs. The result was that she was in a car crash and was seriously injured. Another message from the book is that your friends really need you. An example of that is when Scarlett was in labor. Scarlett only wanted Halley to stay in the room with her while she had the baby. This book is not like other books, because the plot is different. In most books normally it is that some girl is pregnant and her parents get mad at her and then the father of the baby abandons her. However in this book Scarlett became pregnant and her mom was mad at her but she got over it and helped her. Also the father of the baby died in a motorcycle accident before they knew she was pregnant.

In this book the theme is friendship because Scarlett helps Halley when she and her mom had a period where they did not get along. Also Halley helped Scarlett throughout the pregnancy. Another reason is that Cameron becomes friends with Halley and Scarlett and he becomes a no one to friends with the pregnant girl. Even though Cameron knew that it would be weird being friends with the Scarlett he still became friends with her and they ended up being best friends.

Halley is my favorite characters for three reasons: she is a good friend, knows when she makes mistakes, and is caring toward others. She shows that she is a good friend because even though in the end she did not want to be in the delivery room, she still went in to be with Scarlett. Halley demonstrates that she knows her mistakes because when she was going out with her boyfriend, Macon, behind her mom’s back’ she knew it was wrong and broke up with him. She shows that she is caring towards others because she did not like Elizabeth that much but when she saw she was upset she still tried to make her feel better.

Elizabeth is my least favorite character because the few times she talked, it seemed that she was trying to be mean. Also, when she talked she made threats and tried to scare people because she was jealous of them or wanted what they had.

Since I finished the book, I am going to say something I would have changed. I think that Macon should not have pulled up in his car like superman because that was really predictable. Instead, she should have tried to find him or ask someone to borrow their car.