Reading Response

Reading Response: Jane

Although this is not an actual picture of Jane from the book, this is the Jane I picture in my mind while flipping through the pages.

In this book the storyline starts with Jane, the main character, spending her last few nights at the East Coast College of her dreams. She is forced to drop out of school mid semester and move back home because she has just received word that her parents have been killed in an accident. With this unexpected twist of events that has turned Jane’s world completely upside down she is left homeless, unemployed, and nearly broke. Realizing that she will have nowhere to stay in less than thirty-six hours, she begins the ultimately unsuccessful search for a job. She begins to lose hope and question her own life after no luck with the job search that is until she discovers Discriminating Nannies, Inc.

           

 “I sat in the chair closest to the exit, where I felt like an impostor in my herringbone suit from Goodwill, so I could watch as the competition came and went” (Page: 1)  

  “The woman quickly sized me up. I could see it in her sharp eyes and closed mouth smile: I was a parody of a nanny, too fussily, all wrong.” (Page: 2)

When I first read these lines one question continually came to mind. Why are we as humans so quick to conform to the standards set by today’s society? We are not meant to be uniform, flawless, or perfect. If that’s the case then we should all have been made in a factory overseas and shipped over like the latest version of technology. Imagine if everyone could do the exact same thing at the same skill level. The world would become a very boring place and it would be hard for any improvements to be made. We all have a purpose and we are all made different for a reason. So the next time someone tries to alter who you are follow these three rules: be honest, be proud, and most importantly BE YOU!