BOYS, BOYS, BOYS

     The book The Summer of Firsts and Lasts is all about boys, boys, boys! The story is narrated by three sisters, Calla, Violet, and Daisy. They all have boy problems in different ways. Unfortunately at the end it doesn't work out for either one of them.
     Calla is the oldest and it is her last year at camp before she goes off to college. She is also a people pleaser. She has to have everybody on her side or as a friend. She likes this boy, Duncan, whom she has been friends with since she her first year at this camp. Violet is the second oldest she is the complete opposite of Calla. She's a senior and boys are the least of her problems. She's one of those people that can get over a boy easily and ask one out herself. During the summer she meets James, a counselor at camp. She has never taken any boy seriously except for him. unfortunately the relationship doesn't last long. Daisy is the youngest of the three and she's a freshman. This is her first year at camp and she's kind of nervous. She doesn't have any friends here, that is until she meets Joel, a freshman. On the first night at dinner they hit it off and their next big encounter is the swing dance.  Things go nice at first but then Joel isn't the nice guy he was anymore.
     I think that this book portraits a really good example of girls these days. The development of girls is really different then what it was a century ago. Girls aren't being taught manners or having the talk with their parents.The rate of teenage pregnancy, drug addicts, and alcoholics has gone up a lot over the century. Anyways, also the perspective of how girls have to look like is part of this whole dilemma.  All in all, I would consider myself to be half Violet and half Calla. I'm like Calla because I let boys come to me, i don't go after them like they're some sort of chew toy and I'm a dog. And I'm like Violet because I'm also not so shy to talk to boys.