What My Mother Doesn't Know (103-155)

Summary:
Sophie is feeling like she doesn't belong with Dylan anymore. She looks at him as a child now, not as an adult, and she wants to be able to have a serious relationship. When they break up, Sophie feels bad, but she can do nothing about it, she moved on. Halloween is coming up and Sophie and her friends are going to a Halloween party, Sophie want's to be the center of attention. She goes shopping for a Halloween outfit with her mom and ends up buying a flower pot costume, when she actually wanted to buy a stunning black dress which her mother did not approve. As the Halloween party date arrives, Sophie goes back to the store and buys the black dress that her mother forbid her to buy, and wears it to the party. Sophie dances with a boy in a mask, and she continuously thinks about who it could have been after the party. As Sophie waits for her mother to pick her up, a couple of tenth grade boys laugh at her and when her mom pulls up and sees Sophie in the dress she yells at her and tells her to hurry and get in the car. When they get home they shout and scream at each other, and finally her mom takes the dress and tears it into pieces. They don't talk to one another for days, and once Sophie finally is tired of it, she makes up with her mother.

Quote:
"He'd just look into my eyes and know how it feels to be buried under an avalanche of guilt." (Sones 153)

Summary:
Sones describes Sophie's feelings very accurately, and in this case she uses a hyperbole. Sophie believes that her dream man will just know how she feels, without even asking. This shows that she is still a child at heart, because this is one of the things she wished for. On the other hand, she understands what's right from what's wrong. Sophie slowly realizes that she is not a child anymore and she is going to have to act like a grown-up soon. She slowly stops fighting with her mother and learns that her mother will help her get through everything. Sophie is slowly growing up, mentally and physically.