Those Summer Girls I Never Met | Themes and Characters
In a novel, one of the ways to show growth or character development is to show different responses to similar situations. Peck establishes these changes in Drew and Stephanie Wingate by showing the reader how they respond to their mother and friends at home in suburban Chicago and then contrasts these responses to those at sea with Connie Carlson, their grandmother, and the friends they acquire on the Regal Voyager. At home, Stephanie talks constantly to her friend Gillian Bergner, plays her music and VCR, and only steps outside to go to the mall. Anger and rage are Stephanie's...
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