Betsey Brown Blog 7

I loved this book. While reading it I could only think of the book "Are you There God its me Margaret" by Judy Blume. Blume’s book was more on the mild side though. The book also deals with growing up as a young female and wondering why all these things are happening as they go through puberty. The general idea of the plot is the same, but they big thing in that book is when the girls get their periods. I think these two books relate to each other very well. I like the idea that Betsey is naïve at the beginning of the book and grows up throughout. I would not say that she is completely mature but her wiliness to learn makes her so easy to relate to. I think so many children want to grow up quickly and when they finally get there they want to go back to being naïve and innocent. To me, Betsey grows up very fast, within the first 50 pages they talk about comparing boobs and she also wonders what it is like to be kissed. She wants to know everything and anything before it even happens. I also liked the Grandma; she made me think of my own grandma in ways. When the Grandma yelled at Carrie for kissing her beau, I laughed, I grew up in a household where you show no affection to your significant other in front of someone who is older. I think she yelled at her because she was disrespecting the place she worked and she was showing children something that they did not need to see. There are so many things in this book that people can relate to now that it makes it an easy read but it also has the emotion so you can get a feel about how they felt during those times.