Forever

Is Forever really Forever in the eyes of a teenager?           

     I feel like this novel is written very well, I feel like Judy Blume wrote this book to relate to teenage girls, and to show them that what they are feeling is normal. Like I stated before in my “Chocolate War Blog,” When I am reading a book I tend to look at how this book makes me feel. I want a book to be engaging and fun to read, I don’t want it to have long dry spots where I am just skimming the book to get through it and not really reading it to understand it. I still feel like the books should have an overall meaning to them that tells the young adults a moral, and not just written to be written. That is what I think that Forever  is good book to be taught in schools. This book is written for young adults and it deals with things that teenagers can relate with. This novel deals with the issue of having sex for the first time, and for most teens this would be an awkward conversation to have with the parents. Therefore I feel like they could fall back on this book and see what they can do to better understand what is going on.

I feel like this novel would be considered as a realism novel, because it is showing the reader what happens in real life after one has sex. It shows that there could be consequences, like getting an STD or getting pregnant, or there could be no consequences at all. I also felt like this novel really portrayed that Forever isn’t really Forever in the eyes of a teenager. Judy Blume shows the reader that there is a difference in love and being in love.  She shows us that not everyone that “falls in love” in high school marries that person. She also shows the reader that life does move on after you break up with a person that you have been sexually active with.

After reading Forever by Judy Blume, I feel like this book should be taught in many schools around the country. I feel like this book is very educational and it shows the true consequences of having sex. Though Katherine does not have any major consequences of having sex, many others do. Michael gets an STD on his first time, and Sybil actually ends up getting pregnant. I feel like the moment we find out that Sybil is pregnant and doesn’t know who the father is, we as readers, are almost expecting this. I was expecting something bad to happen to one of the characters in this book because there were so many times within this book where Judy Blume was  trying to teach the audience about safe sex, so I knew that there were going to be some consequences of having sex written within this novel. Later in the future, if I have a daughter, I will want her to read this book because it will help her have a better understanding of what to expect. I would also want her to discuss some of these issues with me if she has any questions about what is going on.