Loose Girl (85-126)

Summary:
As the summer approaches Kerry's dad rents a house on Fire Island off of Long Island. Nora, her fathers girlfriend has become like a second mother to Kerry. She talks to Nora about everything. Kerry hasn't spoken to her real mother for over a month, and she likes it that way. Though she doesn't like the guilt she feels. Soon enough, Kerry starts liking a boy named Justin in order to forget about her break-up with Keath. Justin has blue eyes, sun-kissed blond hair, and sand colored skin. But as usual, Kerry pushes for more than Justin wanted and he breaks up with her. Once school starts she doesn't tell anyone what happened all summer. She learns to keep everything away from her school life, especially her sexual life. A lot of girls were known as sluts at her school, and she didn't want to be another name on the list. Tyler hardly comes home, she only visits her mother, this makes Kerry feel all alone, like Tyler doesn't care about her anymore. Her mind changes when Tyler proves her wrong. Kerry gets very sick, vomiting all night and Tyler finds her next to the toilet the next morning. Tyler takes her to the hospital insuring her that everything will be alright. After this occurs, Kerry is thankful for Tyler. As Kerry is in 12th grade, she applies for five colleges and she takes an elective called Minority Literature, she starts to like to read and write. She makes it inter Clark University in Massachusetts. In the summer, she moves in an apartment with Jennifer B. and Jennifer C.. Ongoing parties occur in the apartment and Kerry continues to do drugs and sleep with the random boys.

Quote:
"Heath hangs over me like a winter coat, and I am eager to shake it off." (Cohen 87)

Reaction:
Kerry Cohen continues with her very descriptive writing. This quote describes how she felt about her break up in a beautiful way. She thinks of her old relationship as winter and since it's summer Kerry wants to start over. She wants to forget about Heath and move on, and she is eager to move on just like most people are eager to move on from winter to summer. As a whole, Cohen's writing is expressed in many descriptive ways, such as similies, metaphors, and personification. This quote is not only an example of a similie, but it is also an example of what Kerry is like. She is a girl that cannot hold a relationship for too long because she always wants too much from a boy. She also always wants to be with them causing a tension of untrust to occur. All in all, Kerry Cohen tries to describe as much events as possible in order for the reader to feel like they are a part of Kerry's life.