Chapter 17

As this book is drawing to an end, it doesn't feel like it plot-wise. It feels like the conflict has just reached it's climax, yet the pages between my fingers just get thinner and thinner. In here, Janie's problem about New Jersey has subordinated itself, and her breakup with Reeve had snapped the long stretched elastic band. Reeve was doing the typical guy thing, finding another girl, having fun. Sarah-Charlotte was happy to comfort Janie, mending the broken friendship they had. However, I think Sarah-Charlotte was just happy because now Janie is single. Yet Janie's eyes were still on Reeve, she didn't want Sarah-Charlotte's comfort, which was just making Reeve look bad. Anyway, away with this teenager romance, this chapter didn't talk a lot about Janie and her family in New Jersey. She wrote a letter, but misplaced it. In the end, out of fear that somebody would mail it for her, she asks Reeve for his lawyer sister phone number, hoping to reach her in time so that she could contact family and do something about it. ( not calling the police) Reeve wanted to makeup with Janie.
This chapter, was filled with Janie's broken heart issue. She was eating less and less, felt dizzy and couldn't even stand properly. This book is also banned because it promotes anorexia. It's telling girls it's okay to be in despair over a guy that wants to get sexual with you, yes go ahead please be anorexic and cry over him. Anyway, Janie's only source of love and support was Reeve, but now since she's lost him, she was left in despair. She was desperate to hide the New Jersey problem back into the attic, forgetting it, finally learning to appreciate the loving home she had with her parents. The letter, however, gets misplaced, which means chances are somebody is going to read it. Now Janie is really in dilemma, next chapter, which is the last shall tell us what Janie is going to do.
This chapter was probably the most intriguing out of all of them, due to the emotional things Janie has been going through. I don't think this is the reason for this book to be banned though, because realistically it happens to all " pre-teens". Banning this book isn't going to prevent anything.