Reading response to My life Undecided

I recently read a great book called My Life Undecided by Jessica Brody. It was about a girl named Brooklyn Peirce who makes horrible decisions in life. For example, she burned down her mom’s model home (a fake home to give tours in) when she threw a party in it. After that incident it was the last straw for Brooklyn’s parents. They took away all of her freedom and made her work at a construction site to rebuild her mom’s model home. The police told Brooklyn that if she did anything else like burning a house down she would be sent to jail. After all of the bad decisions that she had made in life, Brooklyn decided to start a blog. On her blog she asked a survey question every time a decision came up in her life. The people reading her blog would vote on what she should do. I think that the blog is a big symbol in this book because not only does the blog help improve Brooklyn’s life but it helps other people’s lives too.

I think that the blog is a meaningful symbol because it seems to help a lot of people. It helps Brooklyn when her best friend Shane (who didn’t talk to her for months) wants to be her friend again. Shane isn’t a nice person and only wants to be Brooklyn’s friend again because she is popular. Brooklyn’s blog helps her come to the right decision. The blog also helps Brooklyn when everyone at school acted like she was invisible. Her blog readers voted that instead of eating in the library all by herself, Brooklyn should eat in the cafeteria. That helped Brooklyn find a true friend. When Brooklyn was eating in the cafeteria she made friends with a boy named Brian. Brian really liked her and he stuck up for her at all times. The blog also helped other people around the country who were in situations like Brooklyn’s take a stand by listening to her viewers’ advice.

In conclusion, the blog is a big symbol in the book My Life Undecided. The blog symbolizes standing up for yourself and what you believe in. The blog helped Brooklyn stand up to Shane and to all of the other people who treated her like Shane did. This book’s message is how people can change because at the end of the book, Brooklyn changes from following Shane around, to not caring what other people think. I think that it is really cool that I just read a book about blogging and now I am blogging myself.