Can T Look Away Analysis

Donna Cooner’s Can’t Look Away projects that popularity can take a hard hit on how person can act. Everyone needs friends in their life that are going to have their backs and to be supportive, and that is what Torrey needs through this hard time. Many people struggle to see past popularity and to truly understand what’s important in life. Hubert H. Humphrey once said, “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
Torrey Grey recently lost her sister. She was hit and killed by a drunk driver. The book explains how Torrey is mourning the loss of her sister, Miranda. Looking at the words used in the book, there’s clues that hint that she may be depressed. The author also used dialogue to project to readers that Torrey’s parents are miserable over Miranda's death as well. For example, “”We all need a new start,” my dad says now, looking at my mom.” This supports that everyone in her family is mourning the loss of Miranda. Although, Torrey doesn’t want to express her emotions towards them, she is treating them poorly as if she was taking the anger out on them.
As Torrey begins to get more involved with a new life in Texas, she is preoccupied with becoming popular at school. She falls back on wanting to be an Internet sensation, once again, it’s all to gain back positive popularity.
Without the love and supportive care that friends provide, what else is there to fall back on? The claim that friendship will get a person through a hard time shows that Torrey began to move on with her life and to forget about the difficult past, only after she started to accept support from her friends. “He gets up slowly and walks towards me, sinking into the ground and gathering me up in his arms”. In this part of the book, Torrey realized how Luis, a very good friend, is there for her and he’s not going to leave her, he is showing how he cares about her. Even when she has neglected him and other true friends, they want to be there for her and make her feel