Along For the Ride Reader Response #8

    In the book Along for the Ride the main charcter Auden is a girl who is very focused on her studies and dosen't have much of a social life. In fact she never much of a social life ever, especially in high school. Her mother is a hardcore professeur at one of the top colleges in the country and her father is a writier that always seems to have his head in his newest project. When her parents fought, which lead up to their divorce, so she would stay up all night even after they got divoreced and they stopped fighting. Her father gets renmarried and moves away. Soon her father invites her to spend a summer with him and his wife and their new baby, at Colby. First Auden is hesitent she dosen't usually do things like this. But she finally decides too. When she gets there she meets Eli and he gives her a whole new prespective on things.
     When Auden arrives she is very timid and attrachs attention though. As I said she didn't have a high school life. So she is very uneducated socially. So Jake (Eli's brother) hooks up with Auden. She says "I didn;t know who I was as I tumbled out of the sand dunes." She didn't know what was happing at first. So later in the book when people draw conclusions about her she was very surprised. She assumed that people wouldn't figure anything out and nobody would mind and pay no attention to her.
    Auden and Eli start to hang out she has learned about Abe and the car crash. But un like most people she treats him like a normal person, not someone who's gonna break down in tears at any second. She and him develope a close relationship during their "quest". These are different events Auden never got to get to do when she was in high school. They kiss at the one "quest" in the bar. But since then Auden is acting distence. Why though? Is it because of what her mother said, "A smart women knows a fling is always better." Myabe? But her and Eli were so close and they both made each other a new person.
    Auden has been changing I think as each page is turned. Eli really shows her how fun some things can be, but in moderation. Audens fear in the book was to end up like her mother. No real relationship. Just flings. Eli shows that relationships are much more fun. But she is scared so she sometimes resents Eli. But she opens her self up.