ClubBaldo's Journal #1

     After reading this first section if this book I noticed how much it said about life. It touched up on the horrible parts of life, the sad, the hard, the lonely and the painful struggles of it.

          The main character, Novalee was a teenager and she made bad decisions and mistakes, just like every other teenager. But this one tiny mistake was going to affect how the rest of her life was going to be. When Novalee got pregnant by Willy Jack, they were most likely in total love with each other. But now that she's pregnant he doesn't want to take responsibility for the mistake he helped make. So, of course instead of staying and being a father, he leaves Novalee while shes pregnant with his child. I couldn't imagine the struggle of having to raise a kid at 18 years old by myself with no father figure. That's a horrible thing to have to go through, and a horrible thing to have to tell your child when he/she asks where their dad is.

          To me, this book represents just how hard and cruel life can be sometimes. Things happen and people change and its sad. Just like the way Willy Jack's feelings changed for Novalee because she was pregnant. Just because he didn't feel the same way as before and did not want to care for the baby, he just left her, stranded at Wal-mart as if she never meant anything to him.

          I have got my fair share of how hard life can knock you down and how sometimes you can feel completely alone. Sometimes you just feel as if the whole world is against you. And I strongly believe everyone else in this world has gone through something like that as well.  But going through something as hard as what Novalee has to go through is beyond my comprehension. The one thing that I think I have learned about life is that when it gets hard its probably for a reason and something good may come out of it, but there is one thing I'm certain of, and that is that it does get better. I hope something good will come out of this for Novalee. I hope all the pain and suffering will not be left unrewarded. I pray that life will get better for her, even though it seems like it never will.