My Own Worst Enemy

My Own Worst Enemy

What would happen to you if you must live your life in the hidden of

your true self? The book that I recently read is called My Own Worst

Enemy written by Carol Sonenklar; hence it was published in 1999 by

the Scholastic Inc. In the book, Eve Belkin is a young-teen girl who

has just moved to Michigan because of the returning of her mother to

medical field works. Eve has hard times in her old school of getting

fit-in. Therefore she decided moving to a new place is a great

opportunity to reinvent herself. She started to live her life under

playing a role of a normal girl who dresses nice and neat all the time

to impress her family of course. And yes, Eve gets good returns for

what she gave out. She got being friends with two very popular normal

girls, Lisle and Kristine. Yet she does not really like them though,

because their behavior toward peoples around them is very cold. Eve’s

true self later was exposed to everyone at school, after Lisle

surprisingly discovered how Eve Belkin’s true self is really look like

at home. Eve decided not to act or dress like someone else anymore,

because she got enough of uncomfortable out from it, and beside, she

said to herself why bothers being someone who is she’s really hate.

Therefore Eve started to be herself again by wearing her favorite

comfy gray outfits to school. She still got friends who like her.

Finally Eve gets to understand the fact that fitting-in is maybe was

not a great idea at the first start because maybe everyone was meant

to be different and original.

Eve Belkin has a few problems in her life. And mostly it got

influenced from her family troubles. Her father has just lost his car

company job. And for a year, he could not find...

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reality for a teen girl's life. For instance Sonenklar uses

“cleanaholic” to describe how crazy Eve’s mother is with her

neatness. She uses good sense of humor to grab readers' attentions.

She got a good sense of style and tone in the story. She knows when

the tone should be up and down. Throughout the whole story, the tone

was kind of suspicious because Eve’s condition was always anxious and

worried. By doing this, it helps readers to feel the main character’s

feelings better. It helps because readers are able to put themselves

inside of the main character's shoe. I would like to introduce this

book to some of my friends, especially to the girlfriends, because I

know they will love this book since it is so touching and so true

about our girls' live of being a daughter in a family. Well over all,

it is such a great book!! I know you will enjoy it too!