My Sonnet

                                                         Before I fall from the great big tree,
                                                         before I take my final rest below,
                                                         I march behind the mantle above me
                                                         hoping to see something new to bestow.
                                                         I've been living in the jungle alone
                                                         hoping someone will come marching again
                                                         living near a lion i've become prone.
                                                         I watch as the trees sway and the grasses wane
                                                         In the land that I call home, I am but
                                                         a lone dragon looking for my power
                                                         or, one might say, a diamond in the rut
                                                         Don't say these words to scare or cower
                                                         In fear of leaving the castle alone
                                                         From this journey I have very much grown.      

This Lullaby

  The main character Remy, needs to work on her character and her relationships with others. Because her mom has had so many different husbands (5!!) Remy doesn't think that there is even a thing called love. I know that it's probably hard to de-condition herself from what she's been surrounded by her entire life, but it's not fair to think of Dexter, a boy who really likes her, as just a temporary summer relationship. In my opinion, I think that people like that shouldn't be in a relationship at all...period.
  It's rare that I find characters where i strongly disagree with every last thing they say or think, but this is definatley one of them. Inside, like, really deep deep down inside, I know that Remy has a heart and it's slowly showing each day that goes by when she's with Dexter, and he notices it too.
  Just to digres a little bit, I think that most of Sarah Dessen's characters are easy to figure out and what the endings going to be are usaully no-brainers, but this one is a little tricky which is pretty good.
   Remy continues to have to remind herself not to put her heart into the relationship has to mean something because unlike the other boyfriends she's had, she can't seem to remember that Dexter's not important to her which obviously means that he is important to her after all.