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Themes In Flipped
Flip Flop - Tick Tock: How Time Changes Feelings
The theme of change is frequently brought up in Flipped, a novel written by Wendelin Van Draanen. Flipped is about two kids named Juli and Bryce whose feelings for one another shift throughout the book. In the beginning of Flipped, Juli moves to Bryce's neighborhood where they meet one another for the first time. Juli instantly falls in love Bryce, but Bryce thinks Juli is the most annoying girl he has ever met. Juli continues to like Bryce all the way through grade school, but towards the middle of junior high, she begins to question why she ever liked him. She starts to realize how many mean things he has done to her. When Juli and Bryce become trapped in the same room, she realizes that she no longer loves him. Juli says that in the room, “Our eyes locked for a minute, and for the first time the blueness of his …show more content…
Juli confront’s Bryce and says, “‘I heard you laugh. He made a joke about me being a retard, and you laughed’” (Draanen 106). Juli knew Bryce had been mean to her for several years, but that never seemed to affect how she felt about him. So when she heard Bryce laugh when his friend called her a retard it changed her feelings for him. Draanen’s statement, “the blueness of his (eyes) didn't freeze up my brain,” is both creative imagery and a metaphor for the shift in Juli’s feelings. Throughout the book Juli was always mesmerized by Bryces eyes, but when she stops liking him, his eyes no longer move her. When Juli begins to not like him anymore, Bryce’s feelings for her dramatically change: he realizes he’s in love with Juli when he starts staring at her in class. Bryce says, “I found myself looking at her in class. The teacher's talking and all eyes would be up front… except mine. They kept
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