Beautiful Creatures

Angeles Martinez                                                                                                     

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Reading Blogpost

I am currently reading a book called Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margret Stohi.  This is probably a book-or movie-you guys have heard since it’s a very popular book.  The book is about a boy who’s never had changed in his town, where everyone knows about everyone’s secrets-isn’t much of a secret then?-everyone knows the latest gossip, the latest who did what and why, and everyone is basically the same. The boy in this Same-Old Town is named Ethan Wate.  Ethan is Gatlin’s most typical High School Boy, his best friend is Link (Not his real name by the way) and  he’s smart, gets good grades, but he’s not so typical since not everyone’s mothers die so early.

Ethan turns out to be more “Un-typical” when a girl named Lena  Dunchannes moves into Gatlin. In Gatlin, change isn’t accepted. When Lena moves in, news spread fast, and everyone at Ethan’s school is talking about her-she’s the girl people describe as beautiful and they want to meet her. But there’s just one problem. Soon, everyone finds out Lena is “Old Macon Ravenwood’s Niece.”  Mr. Ravenwood had been Gatlin’s…shunned person for many years since he hasn’t been outside his mansion for a long time, everyone thinks he’s a freak (Well mostly different since they don’t know anything about him, really) and when they find out Lena is his niece, they automatically begin to hate on her ‘cause they think she’s a freak too.

But, Ethan, he doesn’t think she’s a freak, no, he’s actually attracted to her, and it isn’t just physical attraction, it’s something else. He’s seeing her in his dreams (didn’t see her face though, not until she met him), they both can hear each other’s thoughts, and they have visions whenever they touch something old (Like a locket, maybe?) together.  Ethan, despite all this complicated Lena is a freak, Lena should be shunned and hated on, Lena’s crazy old Macon Ravenwood’s niece; Ethan really makes an effort to talk to Lena, he too wants to find out what’s going on since Lena says this really hasn’t happened to anyone.

As a person who likes to read for mostly fun, I can’t really help but think of Ethan’s character. In Gatlin, if you don’t fit in, you’re a freak. If you’re different, if some of the most popular girls in school or their mother hates you, that they have a reason to not like you, you’re out. You really don’t want that, do you? You want to be with the “in crowd.” Ethan doesn’t seem to care about that. he just wants to figure out the mystery of why he’s so attracted to her. So what if you’re shunned? What if the two most hottest, coolest girls and their moms hate you? As long as you get the answers you need since it has to do with your family, the girl you like, and a whole bunch of stuff with your dead mom, right? Ethan, to me, seems like a good character, like he doesn’t care what people think and he’ll do what he thinks is right, even if the consequences are bad. So, Ethan, good job! May you find the answers you want, and not, uh, like die in the process!