Renley Eisler How To Make Out Analysis

Needing money can make some people do things that go against their true identity. Renley Eisler of How To Make Out by Brianna R. Shrum starts a blog that ends up ruining everything she cares about. Renley’s math club is going to New York but after her parent’s divorce her Dad cannot afford it all. So, Renley starts a how to blog that helps in changing herself. Renley needed the help of her two best friends April and Drew. Drew helps Renley with the most popular question that was submitted to the blog, how to make out. This turns their complicated relationship into something even more complicated. Then when Renley starts talking to the nonchalant, Mr. Popular of her school, Seth and when he starts falling for her everything starts falling apart. Seth changes Renley for the worst unintentionally. He does this by making her choose between him and her best friends she picks him. After Drew exposes her as the writer of Sweetlife.com
“ But when my Dad cheated, she just left. All of us. She left me.” (Shrum 171). Renley faces the truth of her mother leaving and how much she actually needs her and is still upset with her mom. This search was more of the ability to finally admit the fact that she needed her mom. Renley really did love her mom and missed the love she felt from this connection that was lost. Renley searched to replace this sense of love she missed with her mom but maybe in the wrong place.

A search for love is hard when one is a teenager. “ ‘I’ve always loved you ,’ I say again, because it feels right Totally right.” (Shrum 271). Renley found the one she truly loved and not just for looks or popularity. This search for love was obvious to the reader that she would end up with Drew. However, it had been such a strong connection that it really proved to be the search that was filled with love. Renley also finds her identity with the help of this newly found