Violet's Change In Embrace By Jessica Shirvington

A teenage girl full of secrets and surrounded by the unknown and changing dramatically. In the book Embrace by Jessica Shirvington, there’s a girl about to turn 17 named Violet, she is strong headed, and a changing roller coaster due to major tragedies happening in her life. Many tragedies throughout the book had Violet changing who she was and how she acted. Violet has many different traits that set her aside from other characters, for example, she is a go-getter and strong headed which sets her aside from her best friend. In the past, she was easy going and do whatever type of person, but die too a big tragedy her whole demeanor changed and has the author emphasizing “ [she] needed to be strong, [she] couldn’t run from things” (Shirvington 27). As you continue reading you realize she’s not your stereotypical teenage girl, she’s been going through life without a mother and her father is always working causing her to mature very quickly. At times when she wanted to run or something out of routine was happening the author would point out “[that violet] wants a normal life”.

But at times like during battles with fallouts, she is going to keep her group safe at any cost. This is another trait setting her out from the other characters because most of the Grigoris would only keep their group safe but have enemies. Violet's mother wrote a notes that the author addresses multiple times saying “ Believe in the unbelievable” (Shirvington 14), it helped the character realize that nothing is going to be “realistic” or “simply good and evil, right and wrong” (Shirvington 14). The notes helped Violet not to always believe what she saw causing her to change as a person and to not trust