Reading Response #6

                I’ve been reading Chasing Brooklyn the past week that I’ve had time. I did read it last year, but I didn’t really get it, so I decided to start reading it again.

                I believe that Brooklyn, the main character, has a slight depression, she’s gone through a lot in the past year or so with her boyfriend dying and one of her friends. She is upset all the time, and keeps to herself in the hallways. Everyone knows what happened, but they don’t want to say anything to her, because they don’t want to be in an awkward situation if she started crying. She has some friends that are there for her, but don’t really know what she’s going through.  Brooklyn’s boyfriend was dead before the story even started, we never met him, but we did meet his brother.

On through the story, Brooklyn has nightmares that her boyfriend’s bestfriend is chasing her. She has dreams that she is running through the hallways of her school and he is chasing her trying to trap her, and right when he reaches her, she wakes up. She doesn’t know what is going on and she just keeps it all to herself. One day Brooklyn decided that she needed to go to her boyfriend’s house and talk to his family. She got there and his brother answered the door and everything changed from there.              

 She left and she beat herself up for going over there because it brought back memories and she didn’t want to do that. She was still upset and realized that she couldn’t handle it.

                I chose this picture because it’s a girl crying and it represents someone that is sad or depressed and I think that this goes with what Brooklyn is feeling.