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Trying to understand life is like trying to navigate through country roads. ☺ There are winding twists and crooked turns that can skew one’s perception of what direction they are traveling, and it seems as if the desired destination is nowhere within sight. In the novel I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson, twins Noah and Jude Sweetwine are both lost on country roads out in the middle of nowhere. Noah is an introverted self-proclaimed geek who struggles with finding acceptance for being different, for being gay. Contrastingly, Jude is an extroverted socialite who is not afraid to showcase her personality, whether it is while flirting with older boys or communicating with her recent grandmother. Within her writing, Nelson illustrates Noah’s struggle to find approval in identity, and both he and his sister’s encounters with love. I’ll Give You The Sun perfectly encompasses an individual’s battle to find peace with who they are. Noah contests with himself and others …show more content…

Comparable to Noah and her father’s relationship, Jude and her mother are combative with one another. Jude despises the fact that their mother considers Noah to be the better artist, and that their mother fawns over his dream to get into California School of the Arts. She projects her anger into arguments and disobeys her mom out of rebellion. She wears to short of clothes out to parties and puts on heavy makeup to draw more attention to herself. In response to Jude’s desire for her mother’s love and acceptance, she seeks to fill the gap in other places. She befriends older boys, and mistakes their interest for love. “Does M. love me? No” (Nelson 80). She befriends ‘hornets’ that swarm around everyone to cause disorder. She befriends everyone except her brother, who was once her very best friend. ☺ I’ll Give You The Sun shows that love is fickle, and nothing can replace love from someone they want the most, no matter how hard one

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