SuitabookHas to be love
Jolene B. Perry
- Reading
- Read alongside one another if useful, pausing when Clara faces a major choice. Invite the reader to weigh her options, while letting them decide what they think before discussing it.
- Themes
- Scars and other people’s reactions: Clara survived a bear attack and is used to sympathetic looks around town; she hopes her scars might be fixed. The outline establishes that scars and others’ reactions matter to Clara, but not how the story ultimately frames them.
- Ambition, commitment and choice: Clara receives an acceptance letter from Columbia while her boyfriend presses for a lasting commitment; she has second thoughts about leaving. The competing wishes are clear, but the outline does not show which path Clara chooses or how the story judges the options.
- Feelings for a student teacher: Rhodes, a student teacher in Clara’s English class, encourages her writing, and Clara starts to have feelings for him. This introduces a potentially complicated school relationship, but the outline does not establish how it develops or is portrayed.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes a past vicious bear attack, visible scars and sympathetic reactions from people in town; Clara also faces pressure around commitment and difficult decisions.