Summary Of Paula Yoo's Good Enough

The setting of the novel, Good Enough, by Paula Yoo, is in a present day high school called Woodward High School. In the beginning of the story one may feel a little confused, but everything kind of clears up after the first page. After that first page one may get a feeling/sense of warmness. The main character is Patti Yoon. Patti is Korean, she has a flat nose, pudgy face, fat thighs, and Harry Potter-styled glasses. Patti really likes music, she is very competitive, and she is constantly trying to be “perfect”. Another important character is Ben Wheeler. Patti called Ben “cute trumpet guy” before she actually learned what his name was. Ben is tall, muscular, and he has green (with a hint of blue eyes). Ben’s purpose in the story is to

One of the many things she does-because her parents want her t- is go to Korean church where all of her youth group is Korean aswell and they struggle with the same problem of making their Korean parents happy. Patti is constantly studying, practicing for orchestra, or doing SAT practice tests -because her parents want her to. Right around the middle of the story Patti starts to realize she needs to make her own path. She started hanging out with ben even though she was told not to. Ben helped her to realize that sometimes less is more. Another person who helped Patti realize she needed to make her own path was the Yale Alumni interviewer who had a similar issue when she was Patti’s age but she decided to go her own way. A little while after all of that happened Patti started to make her own decisions. One of the first choices she made was to talk back to her parents, which she’d never done before. Another important decision she made was to go to

man (Patti and. her parents). Patti’s parents constantly push her. Her parents have pushed her so much that she basically doesn't have a life. “When you've got six AP classes, orchestra rehearsals, violin lessons, an upcoming solo concerto performance, All-state music to practice, college apps, and the SAT you don't have time to waste.” Patti doesn't really understand why her parents push her so much, but she learns why a little deeper into the story. Patti’s parents pushed her so hard because they believed that if she was the smartest person around, people wouldn't notice the color of her skin or her ethnicity. In result of her parents pushing her so hard Patti started to lie to her parents. The first thing Patti lied about her parents was going over to Ben’s house. Patti asked her mom if she could go to Ben’s house and her mom said no. Patti did it anyway. Towards the end of the story Patti actually talked back to her parents. Patti told her parents she was going to make her own decisions based on what makes her happy and what she