Someone Like You
Over the summer I read a fantastic book called: Someone Like You written by: Sarah Dessen. The theme to this extraordinary book is "sometimes you have to sacrifice things for the ones you love." This theme is shown throughout the book when Halley's mom looses trust in her and when Scarlett ditches school for her baby.
Halley sacrifices her moms trust in her for her best friend. Halley ditches school, sneaks out of the house, and does many things behind her mother's back for her best friend Scarlett. In the book, Halley and her mom get in a huge fight because Halley has been lying to her mom. Halley only lies to her mom because she doesn't want her mom to know that her best friend, Scarlett, is pregnant. This example shows the theme "sometimes you have to sacrifice things for the ones you love" because Halley is ruining her relationship with her mom to help out her best friend. Possibly Halley feels that helping out her best friend is more important at the time than being honest with her mother. This could explain why Halley is doing all of these bad things at school and not being honest with her mom just to help out someone she really cares about, Scarlett.
Another example of how the theme in this book is explained is how Scarlett sacrifices her education for her baby. In the book, Scarlett is caught frequently missing and ditching school. This is illustrated in many ways. Scarlett ditches school to go to a doctor's appointment and frequently doesn't attend school because she's pregnant. Scarlett has to go to a doctor's appointment, but her mom doesn't know about the baby yet. So, Scarlett skips school and also makes her best friend, Halley, and Halley's boyfriend ditch school to take her there. When it's closer to Scarlett's due date, she many times doesn't attend school at all. This detail shows how Scarlett sacrifices part of her education for the one she loves, her baby. Education is very important in growing up and being successful in life but even though Scarlett knows how important it really is she still chooses to sacrifice it for the health of her baby. Scarlett also in some ways sacrifices the relationship with her best friend, Halley because she is having her ditch school as well which could potentially damage there relationship as best friends. Despite all of this Scarlett does everything she can for her child.
Overall, this amazing, realistic fiction novel shows that "sometimes you have to sacrifice things for the ones you love." Halley and Scarlett definitely did that whether it was skipping school, and lying for a friend, or missing school to make sure that the one you love will be okay. All of this is shown in this heart-felt novel Someone Like You.
