Unknown Girl

Part A
In the second half of the book Ellie and Graham decide to try being together and start dating. She's known as the “Unknown Girl” with the paparazzi. Ellie decides to ask her father for money since he is visiting a town nearby Henley with his “regular” family. Graham and Ellie decide to go on a boat over to see her dad, even though her dad doesn’t know she is coming. On the way there they run out of gas, get caught by the coast guard and drop Ellie’s phone in the water. She ends up running into her dad and him not realizing who she was. When they got back Ellie and her best friend Devon finally talked to each other and stopped fighting. Ellie and her mother finally made up and all of Ellie’s friendships went back to the way they were before Graham Larkin. Part B
Graham decides not to care what other people think and starts doing what he wants to do. I
believe that this is good because she stops letting other people control him and decide his life. He goes for Ellie even though he knows he shouldn’t because everyone around him is telling him that.
Graham has matured since the beginning of the book and has begun to be independent, in a sense that he is his own person and no one controls him.
He has started doing what he wants, not what everyone else is telling him to do. He called his parents for the first time, he gave Ellie money. Everything he did in the second half of the book he did because he wanted to. Another example of this is everyone (mangers, fans, etc.) is telling him he should date Olivia (co-actor ) not Ellie because it would look better for the movie and business, but he doesn’t want to so he doesn’t before he would have.
The main issue in the book is peer pressure from co-workers, bosses, friends, and family. Graham and Ellie see it in both their lives Graham from co-workers and bosses, Ellie from friends and family. Graham is peer pressured into “dating Olivia” by Olivia and Graham’s manger, because “it will make the movie more appealing to others”. Graham doesn’t fall for it though, while Ellie is peer pressured by mom and best friend Devon to dump Graham, and during the first part of the book she does (they get back
together). Part C
I liked the book a lot, and I think I enjoyed it so much because it was a book about becoming your own person and growing up, it had struggles that we see in our everyday life (minus the famous actor part). I related to Ellie (again minus the Famous actor boyfriend part) because throughout the book she has been cutting people out of her life because she was afraid of getting hurt, everyone does this to people around and at my age, girls especially tend to cut people out out of fear of getting attached to quickly. Something else Ellie does is she changes how she acts from person to person, not meaning to but does. I do this a lot too, without noticing it, it something some girls naturally do to to add “protection” (like the first example) to themselves. I would definitely recommend this book to someone else, because of how nice the story is and how it relates to girls and guy are that are around age.