Lucy In The Sky Sparknotes

"Lucy in the Sky" takes place in Santa Monica, California. Lucy is a shy, quiet girl who never had many friends at all. She is very focused on her schoolwork and enjoys her parents company. Lucy meets Ross at yoga class and discovers that he is a surfer. Ross introduces Lucy to marijuana at the beach in his pickup truck. Ross inserts Lucy into a new friend group who are involved with drugs and alcohol. Through a party, Lucy meets Lauren and they become inseparable. Lucy looks up to Lauren and aspires to be her physically. Lauren gives Lucy drugs such as Xanax and Acid. Lauren becomes a bad influence on Lucy which causes her to lie to her parents and become less focused on her schoolwork. Lucy also meets Ian, who has a relationship with

The first lesson I learned is there are true friends and there are toxic friends. A true friend is someone who will always be there for you no matter what the circumstance and will turn you away from anything harmful. A toxic friend is someone not worth having in your life because they will get you into more bad than good. I also learned that you should never trust anybody or their judgment until you truly no them. Those you think you know can take advantage of you and cloud your judgement. Finally, the most obvious statement throughout this book is to never get involved with drugs. If Lucy were to refuse the drugs that Ross offered her in the very beginning, she most likely would not have died. This informs me to never do anything that I know is putting myself or others at

I feel like there should have been more of a legitimate figure in the Lucy's life that was helping her get through the temptation of drugs. Cameron, her brother, was urging her to stop doing more "serious" drugs while simultaneously smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol. I also feel that the effects of drugs should have been mentioned more often as they were being praised. Lucy explained how each drug made her feel good and more powerful which could release the wrong message to young children. In addition, if Lucy were to be doing drugs as often as she did, it would have shown in her expressions, attitude, and physical appearance. I believe if she was as close to her parents as she claimed, they would have recognized the change in their daughter. Aside from the negative aspects of this book it was a suspenseful read. The journal format that the book is written in makes it much more interesting because it is explained in the words of the narrator herself. It allows the readers to have a closer connection to the character and allows us to enter her thoughts. In my opinion this makes the ending much more tragic. The death form at the end of the book does relay the message of what drugs can potentially do to anybody. Also, "Lucy in the Sky" is a stolen book which means it does not have a named author. This book was much more mysterious knowing that it