peace,love,and baby ducks

In the book "Peace,Love, and Baby Ducks" by Lauren Myracle, the main character Carly and her sister Anna experience their first year being together at high school. Carly is older, and Anna is just starting. They struggle from the beginning, but make it to the end. they have many issues with friends, new and old, family, boys, school, and themselves. They both change a lot, for the better and the worse.

Carly changes more than she thinks. She forms new opinions of her old friends, and her sister and her friends. And whether or not she realize it, they change the way she acts/thinks/feels. She also changes her opinion on her close friend, Rodger, who has had a crush on her for years. She finally accepts that and considers his feelings. She grows up a lot. she positively changes in a lot of ways because of mistakes. I think she becomes more accepting and less judgmental. She's all about not judging people for their appearance and other people's opinions, yet she judges the people who do. Or more the people that she thinks do. Anna also changes, aside form growing up. For the worse, she lets school shape her personality. She lets others influence her. For the better, she decides to turn that around before it got harder. She stops caring so much about the wrong things, and puts more effort and focus on the things that do, for her own good. IN the end they're their for each other and family/friends, which is all that matters.

Being at the same school was a challenge, because no matter what they do, they get compared, and they compare each other.They also judge each other. Carly starts grouping anna with the kinds of people she dislikes, which almost makes anna more like them. And Anna does the same, though the people she dislikes is the opposite of Carly. And they're both their own people,theyre different. Anna is better at some things, and carly is better at others. But their peers don't see that that does't make the other one better. and it puts a lot of pressure on them, and that hurts their relationship.

I think they also realize the root of their problem. Its them. They think it's their friends and family causing them to hurt each other. though they are involved, the girls decide to involve them. They realize that they need to stop blaming everyone else for their problems, and look at what they can change about themselves to make it better. they use the other people to hurt each other and express their feelings. For example, Anna kisses the guy Carly likes. I mean, that matters, but the real problem is what Anna was feeling that made her do that. Anna just did that to hurt Carly. The real problem is why she hurt her.

This book really just made me think about how people are only as good or bad as you make them out to be. It's other people's choice how they want to think about someone, and it's yours about how you want to. And you are only how you want to be. It's nobody else choice about who you are. Its your choice if you want to let what they say and think change you, but you're the one in charge. with that, if you don't like something in your life, change what your doing to make it better, don't worry about what others are doing. And i think thats what Carly is pretty much trying to do, and teach everybody, Just be yourself, don't worryy about the people who are there to tear you down.