White Oleander, by Janet Fitch

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White Oleander is an exciting novel written by Janet Fitch. It is a novel that describes the life of Astrid, a teen girl that had to experience abuse, sexual awakening, grief and occasionally a glimmer of love. Ingrid Magnussen was Astrid's mother, she would play an important role in Astrid life. It is a novel that describes how Astrid's own life experiences and her own intellectual knowledge influences her mind to become a better person in society. This novel created has a double meaning for me because it helps me to realize that I am able to apply what I have learned from other human beings to better myself. This novel also describes the role of women in a "men's world." The role of nurturing parents in a family is an important factor that helps in the growing of personal independence and is the basis for emotional stability. "Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind", is a quote that relates to unhappy feelings. As a personal understanding this quote gives the reader an understanding that the novel will relate to persons full of sadness and hate. In the beginning of the novel, Astrid use to spend most of her time with her mother. She would read books, go to museums, she would spend hours analyzing paintings, attending movie and opera theathers. Everything changed since the day Ingrid met Kit. Kit was an old men who was not the type of men Ingrid would go out with. Ingrid started to have sentimental feelings towards Kit. Even though Kit was not Ingrid's type of men she accepted several invitations to amusement parks and theaters.As Astrid mother had a more deep sentimental relationship with the Kit, the guy she taught she would never go out, her control over her mind started to lessen. It got to the p... ... middle of paper ... ...ho needed her. After her fiend had delivered the baby, after a few days she had found a new boyfriend that had taken her to live with her. Astrid was given the opportunity to be in a jury so that she could speak in favor for her real mother so that she would come out of jail. She did not want to jury in favor of her mother, however she did not want to be the one who obeyed otheres orders, especially this time that dealt between she and mother. She proposed a deal, that she would jury in favor of her mother, but with only one condition, that her mother would tell her her what had happened between she, her mother, and father, she wanted to know where was his father. After months of negotiation between the mother and the judge and Astrid the mother accepted her daughters orders. Since the first days that Astrid was separated from her mother she missed her a lot.

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