Counting By 7s Analysis

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Karen Gonzales
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Analysis on Counting By 7s Retrospect is used to create the major theme of the story. The novel Counting By 7s written by Holly Goldberg Sloan is about a young girl who was having a time fitting into a new school, but to make matters worse, she unexpectedly loses everything, even her parents. After that, she learns to live independently and finds help along the way. Counting By 7s is the story of an adopted green thumb, medical condition geek, and number seven loving young girl, Willow Chance adopted by Roberta and Jimmy Chance. The book is viewed in retrospect and she begins to look at the day her adoptive parents get into a serious car crash, and she loses them. The story then jumps two months before the crash, to a few days before a new school year. Once the school year begins, Willow has a hard time fitting in, being the outcast of the school. The first day of school, everyone needs takes a standardized test. Yet, a week after the test she is sent to the principal’s office. There, she’s …show more content…

The first time Willow meets Pattie, she sees her family living in poverty. The family is seen living in the garage of Pattie’s nail shop, Happy Polish Nails. It is not until Pattie decides to not only adopt Willow but in the process, buy an apartment for them to live in. And at that point, she could not hide it from anyone anymore, she had to admit she had “crazy mad money.” In retrospect, Pattie could have completely spoiled her own children. However, she made her family live in entire poverty. Yet, when Willow steps into their lives, Pattie is willing to pay that much money for Willow. Even if she is now Willow’s adoptive parent, Pattie treated her in a better way than her own children. Which, in my opinion, is not the way it should have

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