I felt undeniably lonely, yet secretly frustrated at my peers for never remaining constant in my life, even though I knew they weren’t to blame. Time after time, I had to rebuild my social ground, and being on the introverted side, I found it quite wearing and disorienting. I attended a middle school none of my elementary school friends attended, and I was bracing myself to attend a high school none of my middle school friends would attend. It started in the fall of the third grade when my best childhood friend moved away, and would continue up until high school. Growing up, friends and peers moved in and out of my life constantly. I can say, however, that the two very words of the title spoke so clearly to my desires at the time. Several years later, I still can’t pinpoint the precise reason why I felt so drawn to Kinsella’s novel. I didn’t know it then, but I was looking right at the book that I would later consider one of my absolute favorites. The large iconic sunflower on the book’s front cover caught my eye one summer afternoon as I strolled through the books aisle of a wholesale warehouse while my mother shopped for vegetables and juice. I was fourteen years old when I first read Remember Me?.
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