Hi there readers, I'm Toby midnight and I'm reading the book Define Normal by Julie Anne Peters for a school assignment. My amazing English teacher asked us to start a reading response journal, so here it is.
Again, I'm reading Define Normal by Julie Anne Peters. The narrator in said book is Antonia Dillon, or as Jazz (short for Jasmine) Luther, another character in the book, calls her, Tone. Tone is a hard-working straight-A (I think) student with a dysfunctional family. While Tone's mother appears to suffer from sever depression (something I am very familiar with) and possible implied substance abuse, Tone is stuck taking care of her brothers; 3 year-old Chuckie and 8-9 year-old Michael. That leaves Antonia tackling homework at 1:30 in the morning due to Antonia's peer counseling that takes up her home room period. In the 3rd chapter Antonia is stuck dropping her brothers off at a neighbor's and going grocery shopping because her mom won't get out of bed.
That's all I had time for, get back to you next journal entry.
-T.M.
