I luv yu like a sista!

"I wish that you were my sister.  I'd teach you to have some confidence in yourself.  The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of.  Because other people are not such wonderful people" Scene 7, page 1283.

This blog is in response to question number nine.

Amanda asked Tom to find Laura a gentleman caller so that she would be happy and live a little.  What did Tom do- surprising as it was?  He actually listened to his mother and found Laura a gentleman caller, but not just any.  No, he chose a co-worker who he had to known that Laura knew slightly in the past.  The fact that Jim was already going steady and that Laura had a crush on him in the past both make me feel like Tom picked Jim with a specific goal in mind.

The entire time that I read scene seven, I could not help but think about the tone that Jim was using with Laura.  When Jim was talking to Laura about her unicorn, the tone that Jim used was not that of a man trying to win a lady's heart, but rather that of a babysitter playing with dolls and trying to act really impressed by her collection.  Honestly, I have never felt so awkward reading a passage before now.  Congratulations.  I think that when Tom asked Jim to join his family for dinner, he had planned ahead that Jim and Laura would end up in their own room.  Here was where Jim convinced Laura that she was better than a "crippled girl."  Sometimes the best way to break open the chains trapping a person is to introduce them to their childhood idol and force them to interact.  Hearing Jim's story may have just been what Laura needed in her life.