![]() ![]() Park is guided, encouraged, and treated fairly. ![]() Park’s mother works as a hairdresser from her home and shares the parental power in the household. Park is a handsome Caucasian-Asian, trendy, well-liked, popular, from a middle class functional family with one brother and two parents who love and respect each other. Eleanor receives very little encouragement and often bears the brunt of her step-father’s anger which we later learn comes from sexual tension on the stepfather’s part. Eleanor’s mother tries passively to protect her children. Eleanor is Caucasian, sloppily dressed, wild red curly hair, from a highly dysfunctional, poor family with four siblings and her mother’s drunken husband spreading fear on a daily basis. The story is told in alternating short narratives which reinforces how different these two characters are from each other. ![]() Park comes to her defense and soon develops a crush on Eleanor. ![]() Eleanor, being the new kid- unattractive, ill-at-ease, poorly dressed, defensive- finds herself the butt of many jokes from the bus and school bullies. Set in 1986 Omaha, Nebraska, sixteen-year-olds Eleanor and Park initially meet each other on the school bus. Book Review: Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (YA) 4 Stars **** ![]()
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