Eleanor and Park in the form of informational text

Eleanor and Park is a story about two high school students who fall in love.  However, it is not the stereotypical characters that we have here.  Eleanor is everything but cool in 1986: frizzy, curly, wild, red hair and seemingly no sense of style; Park is almost the epitome of cool without being painfully obvious as he has an "in" with the cool crowd but doesn't really take much stock in hanging out with them.  Eleanor begins school in the middle of year, which is the worst time to be a new student.  She is forced to sit next to Park on the bus because everyone has already staked out their seats and is the only one nice enough to offer the seat next to him.  While these two seemingly polar opposites are destined to be anything but lovers, they slowly fall in love and bond over comic books.  We get both of their thoughts on the situation along with small glimpses into their home and personal live which are not too pleasant, especially for Eleanor.  As we get more pieces of the puzzle, we come to find out why Eleanor and Park are the way they are and what leads them to be attracted to each other.

Perfect Chemistry (part 2)

If you could be like any character in this work, who would you be? Explain.

I would choose Brittany, simply because I admire her strength so much.  It's admirable for a 17 year old to completely ignore the status quo and her friends' opinions and do what's best for her.  I know I wasn't like that at 17 and I still struggle with what everyone else wants for me versus what I want for myself.  Brittany is a teenager who was forced to grow up too fast and faces scrutiny much like that of a celebrity on the front pages of a tabloid magazine.  She must make choices that will change her life in big ways, like where she is going to college and the fact that she's dating someone who's in a gang and from the wrong side of the tracks.  She shows that it's okay sometimes to be selfish and to ignore what everyone else is telling you and take the leap to make yourself happy.  I can't imagine having to make some of the choices she has to make, being an adult, but definitely not at 17 years old.  While her peers are busy focusing on which college they want to go to, Brittany is juggling her parents' scrutiny, her sister's disability and lack of a caretaker, and her friends' opinions on every aspect of her life.  Brittany may seem like the stereotypical blonde cheerleader who has everything, but after reading a few pages of this book and getting to know the character, you find that she has many characteristics that are enviable and admirable.