How do the Secondary Characters Effect the Protagonist?

"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"by Phobe Stone is about a girl who lives with her grandparents. They had recently moved from her favorite street and now had to start her whole life over again. That means that she had to stop gymnastics as well. In this book there many characters that effect her life in  a huge way, but I am only going to talk about two. Her only best friend Reni and her grandparents.

Ever  since the main character moved from her old block she only really had one friend plus her grandparents who she doesn't really like. Reni (her best friend) really plays a major role in the man characters life. The protagonist in my book can be very introverted at times and doesn't really like to share how she is feeling. The only person that she will talk to is Reni because she had known her for so long, and they can relate to each other in so many more ways that one. Also, when the main character in my book has a problem she goes to Reni and goes for advice. Reni and the main character in my book have a very strong connect with each other, and that is why Reni plays a major role in the main characters life.

Another character in my book that effects the protagonist in a major way is the main characters grandparents. The protagonist's grandpa is more controlling and structures the main character while the grandma is more of a follower, but has set her boundaries. I think they effect the main character in my book because she spends so much time with them. I think they motivate her to go outside of the box and meet more people. Also, they effect the protagonist because they give her really good advice and when she she is sad she always looks at the god side of things, which I think really helps the protagonist overcome a lot of her challenges. Those are the reasons that I think the grandparents effect the protagonist.

All in all there are many people in my book that effect the protagonist in my book. I think that all of these people that support her help the main character with her challenges which is very important because after she moved she needed all of the support that she could get.  

Over the summer I read a couple of books. One of the books that I read was called "Make Lemonade" by Virginia Euwer Wolf. This book was about a young girl who really wanted to go to college and ended up working as a babysitter for a teen mom so that she could achieve that goal. In this entry I am going to talk about some of the elements of story in the book.

First, I am going to write about the plot. In the beginning of the book, the main character LaVaughn really wanted to go to college. She found a poster of potential jobs that she could take, and she chose babysitting. She ended up going to babysit a teen moms children. In the middle of the book when LaVauhgn is babysitting the two kids and the kids mom comes back home with blood all over her face. LaVAughn calls her mom and her mom looses faith in her. In the end of the book Jolly (the mom of the two kids) gets her life back on track and LaVaughn realizes that she has done a good job. Plot was one of the elements of story int he book.

The next element of story that I am going to write about is character traits. LaVaughn is the type of girl who is very determined. One example of that is that she really wants to go to college. Because LaVaughn wants to go to college so badly, she gets a job to help her mom pay for her education. LaVaughn's mom is a person that I would describe as someone who under estimates people. One example of this is when LaVaughn calls her mom over because Jolly was being irresponsible. Her mom was doubting Jolly because she was irresponsible and didn't want LaVaughn to babysit for them anymore, but in the end she decided to be more confident and everything turned out to be okay.

To sum it all up, plot and character traits were some of the examples of elements in the book that I read this summer.  i liked it because I like reading books that are in the realistic fiction genre. It was a very good book, and I recommend it to people who like realistic fiction.