Theme and Summary: The Daughters Break the Rules

The theme of The Daughters Break the Rules is: Try putting yourself in the other person's shoes. " Then why don't you ever look at me?" she asked. Her father blinked at her. "What?" "You don't ever look at me. It's  like you forget I'm around. Or you don't even want to remember." His eyes got watery. "Oh honey," he said, his voice catching. "It's just that you look so much like her. You're the spitting image of your mother. It's just hard for me sometimes" (Philbin261-262). Carina's dad and her have a big fight where her dad was going to send her away but with the help of her friends she stays and after that fight she and her dad get into an even bigger fight that lasts for weeks. Carina is desperate with twenty dollars a week she has to live on. She tries to find a job and when she gets a job she isn't exactly going to be able to fulfill and everything turns into one giant mess. When Carina learns the truth of what caused her parents divorce. She sees how her dad feels. She finally makes up with her dad and she then knows it's time to tell her dad about the job she can't fulfill.

The Daughters Break the Rules

I just finished The Daughters Break the Rules and my prediction was right about her father learning a lesson. Carina's dad did learn to start caring for her instead of being a spoiled billionaire. Her dad starts to be nicer to her after Carina tells him how he's been treating her. You also find out the truth about what happened between Carina's parents and what caused her parent's divorce. This is what ends up ending the fight that Carina and her dad had. It also answers the reason for the other fights with her dad. This is what causes both of them to realize what it is like to be in the other person's shoes. You find out how Carina deals with her twenty dollars a week. Carina shows a girl named Ava that a good party doesn't need to be fancy. Carina when she only had twenty dollars a week got to experience what it was like not being able to have everything she wanted to buy.

Analysis: The Daughters Break the Rules

The setting of The Daughters Break the Rules is in New York City. I know this because Carina comes out and says to her dad: "Twenty dollars a week-in New York City? He might as well have given her nothing"(Philbin 55). I can infer that Carina is going to fight for her rights that her dad took from her. You can tell because of the way she reacts when her dad cuts her off. The way Carina always talks back to her dad also shows you that she's going to put up a fight to get her rights back that her dad took from her. I can also infer that Carina's dad probably isn't happy with the way how Carina is so disrespectful towards him. In the beginning of the book Carina tells her dad what she thinks about him by saying, " Is that all a being a father means to you? Paying for stuff?" (Philbin 25). He shows that she disrespected him by cutting her off.






                                                         

Reading Skills: The Daughters Break the Rules

I am currently reading The Daughters Break the Rules. From what I've read so far I predict that the "Daughter" in this book, Carina Jurgensen's dad is going to eventually be taught by Carina that money isn't everything and that he will learn to start caring for her more. From what I've read so far I wonder if Carina's dad will learn to start caring for her instead of being a spoiled billionaire. A text-to-text connection that I can make is that in both 13 Little Blue Envelopes and this book both of the main characters are given a certain amount of money they can use to survive for a certain amount of time. Another text-to-text connection I can make is that in the book School Spirits and in this book both of the main characters don't get to see one of their parents very often. A text-to-self connection I can make with Carina is that both of our dads don't really know us very well. Another text-to self connection I can make is that Carina's friend, Lizzie likes to read and write I too enjoy reading and writing. A text-world connection I can make is that fact that Carina says it's impossible to survive on twenty dollars for a week when you live in New York. This is similar to the real world because there is no way you could survive on a whole week in New York if you are only given twenty dollars. This is different from the real world because in the real world your parents probably wouldn't force you to live on twenty dollars.

The Daughters

One of the books I just finished was called The Daughters. This book is told from the perspective of a fourteen year old girl named Lizzie Summers who just so happens to be the daughter of a the famous model Katia Summers . Her friends Carina Jurgensen the daughter of a Karl Jurgensen a very successful businessman and Hudson Jones the daughter a  famous pop star Holla Jones. Lizzie knows she isn't the prettiest girl and having a model for a mom doesn't make it any easier until she meets Andrea Sidwell a photographer that want for her to model for her. Lizzie agrees and soon she becomes the new face of New York. Does Lizzie know what she's gotten herself into?

                                               


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Book Recommendation: Spell bound

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