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A Character Analysis: Just Listen By Annabel Green

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Over time everyone changes into a different person as they grow older. Not everyone will look act or be the same person like they were when they were a little one. We all grow as a person and act wiser as we age. In Just Listen, Annabel Green is untangling a huge knot that was created by herself and unfortionately is called her life. Life is not always easy but for her it has made her feel in a way like bereft. Annabel lost her best friend from a guy named Will Cash (her best friend’s boyfriend), because she supposedly hooked up with, but that is not the case at all. It was also going great between her and Owen, they even kissed, but when she ditched him at Bendo’s it put a dent into their relationship. Everything in her family was beginning to settle and be normal again; Whitney was more talkative and doing more things, Kirstine came back home for the holidays and was very excited about her film that got first place in the festival. …show more content…

She was isolated at school again and had many secrets that were beginning to build up. In this book Annabel is slowly finding her identity on how she does not want to be a model anymore and is slowly finding her real self. She is developing a connection with Owen that is so different than all the connections she has with someone else. She is able to open up to him and love him more than anyone's she’s come across. She also reunites with Clarke (her childhood best friend) by finally speaking to her and getting some things straight. Annabel is also finding truth by speaking her mind, and her past that split her and Sophie

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