"What kind of person is agains reading?I think he believed it would stir up ideas of college, which he thought was a waste of money for girls." Lily's dad shows true ignorance in this sentence, and because Lily is smart, and her dad doesn't seem to be, this causes a gap between her and her father. Her father is old fashioned and wants Lily to always work for him, under his roof, be his girl. He wants her to not have an education, not go anywhere, or do anything significant. But Lily, on the other hand, wants to be someone. She wants to use her intelligence and help people. They have completely different ideas which causes their communication to struggle.
Sometimes my ideas of how I want to live are completely different than my dad's. Part of this is probably because I am 13 and he is my dad and he "still wants me to be his little girl" and all of that talk. But sometimes we just have different opinions which causes anger and leads to a disconnection. I will go off into my room and think that he is wrong, wrong, wrong. But the difference between my relationship with my dad and Lily's relationship with her dad, is there is eventually communication between me and my dad, and we compromise and do somethings for each other's opinion rather than our own, but Lily's father is shut down and won't budge or listen to anyone. So disconnection is inevitable.
When there is a lack of communication about opinion, it causes gaps in relationships just like it does with Lily and her dad.
Wow, I remember when my mom was reading this book it didn't look interesting at all and didn't seem like a book I would be interested in but how you connected this story to your life shows me that I might be able to get a lot of the story. I just may give this book a chance because of you. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Micah! I got really excited when i got the email! Haha, yeah, it's a really amazing book, although i'm not very far into it. But you should definitely read it sometime! I think almost any girl could connect to Lily.
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