Oh how this story upset me—I mean, really? Is that really how it ends? So I’m a huge fan of happy endings. Like the latest Batman movie, I hated it. Sure it was a great thriller and makes you cringe throughout the entire thing with anticipation, but there’s no feelgood at the end at all. And yes it seems like this story had a happy ending, but it really didn’t have anything to do with the story. Clarissa essentially became her mother, except she chose to be honest about who her daughter’s biological father was.
Her mom as a character pissed me off too. I don’t know I guess it could have something to do with the fact that I really do look forward to getting married and having children one day and actually being a mom. Why couldn’t she just talk to Clarissa? Why couldn’t she just say she was sorry? I mean rape is awful, there’s no argument there, but it wasn’t Clarissa’s fault she didn’t ask the man to do it. I just wanted her mom to be say something about why she left. She doesn’t give her anything of closure except for her to said “goodbye Clarissa”.
I did love the fact that Clarissa gave her mom the letter she was writing to her unborn baby. That was a really gutsy move. I liked Clarissa as a character. I really did I liked being inside her head and fallowing her, obvious she had serious problems but I liked her, we always kinda like the main character though don’t we for the most part? I’m glad she found her happy ending but hate how it was written “ I didn’t know.. I didn’t know”—and it’s all summed up in about 3 paragraphs. No ones happy ending is that short. Oh well.
I think I want to write my paper about rape victims who become pregnant. I’m taking Psychology 111 and I absolutely love it. And I would kinda like to see if I can research any other similar cases and see if there are any resemblances to the story. See if most mothers keep the baby, leave the baby, raise the baby, and just see if this book was a good story or if it has some believable factors. I can’t say, since I haven’t experienced similar things, nor had kids, that I would do things differently. I’d like to say I would. One of my biggest questions is why so late? Clarissa was fourteen when she left, she obviously had a pretty strong connection to her mother why make it more painful why not leave when she was younger? That just aggravated me.
But like I said in my paper last terms about relationships, and its what I’m learning in psychology, we’re affected so much by our past. That is why I believe Clarissa leaves P. and randomly starts who own life. I don’t like how she hides her true past from her husband. It shaped her and if her ex fiancé was as great of a man as shes going to tell her daughter why did she leave him?. I definitely think the ending has a few pot holes like the author decided she was too tired to finsish. “ She lived happilt ever after, the end”.