How would you react if a random boy just shows up in your family? Fortunately, Sophie, the main character in the book Red Glass by Laura Resau, comes across that. Sophie is a girl who is caring, worrying and insecure and she's on a journey to help Pablo look for his family.
When Pablo comes into the family, Sophie's caring side pops out. However, It pops out the most when she's in Mexico. While Sophie is in Mexico, she starts to like Angel. Therefore, Sophie starts to care for him. When they all get to Pablo's hometown they stay for a while. During the last week, Angel and his dad go back to their hometown, but they run into some trouble. When Angel and his dad were coming back, Angel had been beaten up by gangsters who robbed him. Sophie gets a call from Mr.Lorenzo saying they need their passports and some money. Sophie was then thinking,"could I bring the documents and money there myself?" (175), Which she did. She cares so much for Angel that she would travel anywhere to help him.
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You instantly notice it at the beginning of the book. She mainly worries about Pablo because she doesn't want him to go. She secretly didn't want to go to the trip "I want to keep postponing Pablo's until the idea of it faded from everyone's memory" (30). Sophie worried that Pablo would leave her, but she wasn't that bothered when he said he would because she knew how good the family was. Taking this trip made her realize that bad things don't always happen. By taking Pablo and learning to not worry all the time, Sophie was able to think about the good stuff and not the