Jeannine's Ordinary People

I believe I would relate more to Jeannine from Ordinary people, because of the circumstances she had to go through. When her parents were getting separated, when she began to explain to Conrad it was clear that i had a connection with her character. When Jeannines parents got a divorce she had quite some trouble going through all the pain she felt alone, so she tried to find a way to hurt herself, she went on with a couple of kids in the neighborhood, began to smoke, and stealing. As she is telling Conrad about what actually happened in Ohio, she tells him the it wasn't her parents fault she was doing all those bad decisions, she explains that she was doing it to hurt herself. But she asks Conrad not to change a thing between them she doesn’t want him to
All the pain was there and I couldn't find any other way to get rid of it so it happened I would smoke and everything seem fine “we smoke, we took pills, we junked around.”(p.249) and that was exactly what happened to me like her i was in it and i couldn't get out of it. I’m ashamed of what i did and it does not bring be pride but I couldn’t help it, it was the most painful time i would go through and i could not find a way out and sadly I hit to the point to where I got expelled from school and I couldn't do anything about it, everyone soon found out and it would hurt me because I was no longer the girl everyone would talk so good about and it was embarrassing to know that everyone would talked so bad about me. And the saddest thing was I couldn’t move away like Jeannine she could get a fresh and she was relieved as she said in her own words “at first I was relieved to have gotten out of it that I didn’t think about anything else.” (p.249). I wanted to leave and get out of Kansas but i couldn’t i was stuck here and be ashamed of what i did, but i didn’t have another option. And like Jeannine said “I believe in