Chapter Analysis: Compare And Contrast And Elizabeth's Relationship

I have been talking a lot about Stewart and maddie in the past chapters but this chapter really focuses on their complicated relationship. They saw each others faces in rehab when they were going to a movie. Maddie was having mixed feeling about him, she didn't know if she should like him or not like him, she was confused. As the days went on she was looking out her rusty old bedroom window watching him work in the front lawn of Spring Meadow. She finally got the urge to talk to him and they clicked right away, but they were also still shy towards each other. Next movie night Maddie and Stewart were pretty much in a relationship. (Nelson 60) "At the Carlton, I buy us two popcorns and we sit with the other rehab people. we don't do anything. We watch the
(Nelson 63) “in the parking lot, we find dark place to make out. We really get in to it.” That really shows how Maddie feels about Stewert and how she really wants to be with him forever. When they meet up with him again after he's out of rehab In Maddies point of view he has changed. (Nelson 111) “ "But its weird too, in some way. I don't know how to describe it. There's a reserve on his end. Like he's scared of me, or he thinks i'm too young. I can't tell.” That really scared Maddie and that was just the beginning of their relationship starting to crumble into a bunch of tiny rocks. Maddie didn't want to think like that though she wanted to keep an open mind and hope for the best. Stewart asks her if she wants to go check out his house she does and thinks that maybe this will bring them more together. This was their car ride and it wasn't the greatest. (Nelson 119) " Steward is in a good mood, but he still doesn't say much. It feels weird to have to plan something like this. As we drive, it seems odd that e talk so little. I feel like I have slipped somehow in his mind. That i've faded