Lainey Lowen > Recent Status Updates

I disagree with Sage not telling anyone about her heart condition/secret volleyball team. I believe that she may not tel anyone because it could effect her popularity status, friends liking her, coaches, parents, and people who see her as the "volleyball star". She doesn't want to lose any of that, so she decides to not tell anyone.

I dislike when the author switches to a different character perspective too early in the chapter. I dislike it when I want to know what that character is feeling, but the author switches to a whole other setting, as if forgetting there is another character that may have had separate thoughts. The author may have done this to make the book go by faster or they already wrote enough of the other person's thoughts before

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Adversity from hardships that both Sage and Len go through then impacts other people and yourself. Len has had a hardship of panic attacks in the past. So, as Sage has an attack, Len is able to help her and give "advice she'd read, about how to come down from an attack" (Carpenter 125). If Len had never had an attack before, Sage would be stuck alone, fending for herself. So, Len grew in courage, and Sage got help.

I learned about dementia, connecting w/ Len. I learned that the illness is permanent and caused by genetics, which Len is genetically related to someone who has the illness. Len is so nervous she may have dementia since what she was going through matched perfectly to a simple symptom google search: "Her body convulsed, cold suddenly...aching to temper the bitterness in her stomach" (Carpenter 94).