Who Can We Really Trust?

Author’s Note: In this essay I will compare two novels and explain how they are similar to one another. Also, how the main characters in each book have similar effects to the people that mean a lot to them.

There will always be that one person you can never trust and there will always be that one person that will never trust you after something horrible has happened to you. Whatever you do it’s hard to trust anyone these days. Just like the main character Allie in the book Breaking Beautiful, By, Jennifer Shaw Wolf and the main character Lisa from the book Dark Secrets, By Elisabeth Chandler both of the characters had a hard time trusting people after both of them lost a loved one to them and have a hard time telling the right people the truth and what they really knew. Lisa and Allie both went through similar situations, finding who to really trust.

Lauren  the main character from the book Dark Secrets  lost her mother when she was still a teenager, they say it’s an accident but there is a good chance that it could have been a murder too.  Now she is living with her Aunt Jule  and her 2 cousins, that is all she has left in her family. As she starts spending time with them she starts to get  suspicious about them and starts investigating in her mother’s death.  Now Lauren is having a hard time trusting people and figuring out what really happened to her mother because she knows more happened to her mother than just an accident.

Just like Lauren, Allie the main character in the book Breaking Beautiful , went through the similar situation, but her boyfriend had died in car accident, but she lost her memory from the accident and can’t remember exactly what had happened. Now the police are investigating in the accident. Just like Lauren, Allie was really upset at the beginning and both of them had a hard time talking to the people that were close to them, but yet could hurt them at the same time.

Even though both of them were really upset after losing a close one to them and choosing the people that they could really trust towards the end  of the stories both of the conclusions in the book end up to be similar. Lauren ends up finding out that her mother death was only just an accident and she just end up drowning in a lake. This effected Lauren a lot in a good way because she finally grained trust back from the people back that she only had in her life now and she could go back to living her life without worrying who to trust.

Unlike Lauren, Allie had a mom, dad, and a bother but she also found out that what had happened to her boyfriend was also an accident, he was an car accident. Ever since they had figured that out this had effect Allie a lot throughout the whole book because this meant to her that her family was always there for by her side. Not only did she realize that her family was  there but her ex-boyfriend has helped her the whole time while she kept pushing him off, but as she found out what had really happened to her boyfriend this affected because she was more positive and happy knowing that people were there for her and she could trust them without feeling alone all the time.  

In both of the books similar events happens and shows the feelings of people and what they go through when they lose a close one. They both end up doing the same actions and feel the same way towards others around them. But doesn't matter who is gone if you were close to them it effects you in some way just how it affected Lauren and Allie having a hard time trusting the right people.