My mom rubs at her temples and closes her eyes. Trust me, at my school, you're expected to fit in. "And for the record,"I inform them, "Phillip will get eaten alive at my school. Like, she is actually looking out for his best interests. I can't take the whispers and stares, having them turned in my direction once everyone realizes what Phillip's last name is."Īnd what really riles me, is that throughout the book Jordyn tries to justify her reasons for treating her brother so cruelly. She doesn't care that his education will suffer, or that the changes in school will impact him drastically on an emotional level. How Jordyn reacted when she found out that Phillip's specialized school shut down due to a lack of funds, was so immature and uncaring. Jordyn spends the entire book whining, complaining, yelling at her parents.
Sometimes being reminded of this can leave me feeling very sad and alone, even when I'm struggling to acknowledge that that brother exists in the first place." "As it turned out, I never really got a brother at all. She doesn't even acknowledge him as her brother!! And why?! Because she doesn't want to be connected with him and risk her reputation. She watches people (including her friends) treat him badly, isolate and ostracize him, give him mean looks, ridicule and mock him, call him ALL TYPES of cruel names, and just stands there. She treats him like crap, like he's the bane of her existence and the source of all her problems, which I just could not understand, and I had such a hard time forgiving her for it. I absolutely hated the way Jordyn treated her younger brother, Phillip, who is autistic. There are so many reasons why I disliked this book, and the main character, Jordyn, makes up 99% of them.
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