Hope Was Here ( Summary & Conflicts)

The new book that I am reading is called “Hope Was Here”.  I barely started reading so, I don’t know that much. We first meet a 14 teen girl who starts off as a waitress in Brooklyn.  When she turns 16 her and her Aunt move to Mulhoney, Wisconsin. Whenever she left a place she would always write  “HOPE WAS HERE”. It’s how she says good-bye to places. Hope changed her name form Tulip to Hope because she didn’t like that name and because it made her feel terrible about her mom since she left her with her sister, though she visits sometimes. Once they got to Wisconsin they had to find a job. Hope found a new dinner where she can work at with her aunt. The man they were going to work for had leukemia and needed help fast. This book takes time in the present. What do you think would happen to hope’s new job? What would happen to the man?

The first few pages that I read from in my new book “Hope Was Here” had a lot of conflicts. One conflict that stuck out was an external conflict, MAN vs. Society. When hope was born she was very fragile because she was born too early, “two pounds and two ounces” she said.  Hope had a lot of difficulties in the first few months of her life. For example in the text its said “I kept on gasping for air, like I couldn’t get the hang of breathing. I couldn’t eat either; couldn’t suck out of a bottle”. This shows how difficult it was for her. Due to her fragileness, her mom didn’t want to take care of a baby so she left her with her older sister, Addie. The good thing is that Addie always wanted baby though she couldn’t have one.  In the book it says that she, “three miscarriages and her no good husband”. This is important because Addie was desperate for a baby while Hope’s mom wasn’t. Anyway, Addie never gave up on Hope and Hope never gave up on her.