Eleanor and Park Post Reading Post

“Saturdays are the worst, Mondays are the best.”

This quote is hard to understand at first if haven't first read the novel. If you have then you know that this has to do the with the problems that come with being "young and in love" and challenges that are faced.

In the novel Eleanor and Park wild-haired problematic Eleanor falls for an Asian kid that goes to her school named Park. The only problem is that life throws a myriad of obstacles at the both of them. Eleanor isn't as privileged as the other children at her school one prime example being that she doesn't have a telephone.Eleanor live very humbly in a tiny home and a two bedroom home where she shares a room with her four siblings.Park was her escape. For Eleanor falling in love was the easy part sustaining it wasn't as easy as she once thought it'd be. Saturdays are the worst in that sense because it means that she has to spend the day locked away in her own personal prison where the warden is her step-dad, Richie. Mondays were the best because she gets to spend time with Park on the bus and at school. To Eleanor spending time with Park is the way she can be free and she can be herself around him. Spending time at home for her is just miserable she has no voice that is higher than a whisper. Her own mom can't even protect her from the person that's hurting her most because if she did the outcomes would be very bad for her. In the end the very reason why a Saturday for Eleanor is horrible is the very reason that she ends up leaving her life behind.

In my life this quote has a very less traumatic and morose back-story and it all comes down to me loving school. Saturdays aren't typically "the worse" but they can be. School is my passion I love coming everyday because I know that my hard work and dedication will get me somewhere in life. Mondays to me are hard but at the same time there's a beauty to knowing that you have a whole week  of new discoveries, learning, and conquering something new ahead of you.

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain