Brief Summary Of Darkness Before Dawn By Sharon Draper

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The book I read was Darkness Before Dawn by Sharon Draper. In the book Darkness Before Dawn, there is a new intern named Jonathan Hathaway that happens to be the principal’s son. All the girls at school like Jonathan because of his looks, and even Keisha’s friends like his looks. Jonathan tries to make moves on Keisha and after some time they begin to date. Her parents disagree with this and tell her not to hang out with them. Also, her friends and parents tell her they think something's off about him, but even though they said that Keisha doesn’t listen and continues to hang out with him. She even calls him every single day at midnight. But one night after the valentines dance he brings her to his apartment. There they have dinner and after that he tries to take advantage of her and even holds a knife against her neck. Keisha was so frightened and confused that without realizing she grabbed the knife out his hand and sliced his face. After that, she ran out of the apartment and into a street where a homeless lady that she gave soup to before helped her. She then calls her parents, but while the phone is ringing she’s worried that they’ll say they warned her. Luckily though her parents are not putting her at fault, and then they proceed home. …show more content…

What Jonathan did to her traumatized her. She wouldn’t even get out her bed until one day, another victim named Rita came to visit her. Rita slapped Keisha in the face and told her she was being ridiculous because Keisha got away unlike her. After that Keisha went back to school, but she was still paranoid that Jonathan would appear behind her until one day Mr. Hathaway (Jonathan’s father) showed up at their door. He told her that Jonathan was arrested because he got caught trying to take advantage of more girls. After that Keisha felt relieved and got her life back to