Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins Response

          "Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?" This quote shows how much the main character values her lover. Anna was forced by her father to attend a University in Paris. At first she was dejected to leave her friends and family behind, but when Anna arrived in Paris everything turned the opposite. She met Eteanne St. Clair and became engaged in his looks. Soon they started boding and Anna realizes she has fallen for St Clair. Feeling confused and puzzled, Anna can't make a decision. Teens can connect to this because they can be afraid to make big decisions and 
changes.

            Sometimes people can have no courage to confess to others, because other issues are blocking them. Anna is not confident enough to confess her love to St. Clair because his personal issues are on their way. After St. Clair finds out about his mom's cancer issue, he gets drunk and has an emotional attack in Anna's house. While Anna doesn't know how to calm him down. he says " Anna...about our relationship, I wanna be more then a friend." The day after, St. Clair gets well, he asks Anna is he said anything about their relationship the other day. Anna replies, " No, you just talked about your mom." This makes me believe that Anna knows St. Clair is concerned with his mom. She does not want St. Clair to worry about her causing him to be stressed out about both topics.. " I lied to St. Clair. My heart races, I really wanted to tell him. " This shows that Anna was nervous to tell St. Clair the truth, 

           Throughout the book, Anna and St. Clair gets closer. She begins to question him on why he hasn't left Ellie (his girlfriend) yet. St. Clair answer, " I'm afraid of making big decisions, I've been with Ellie for so long." This quote shows that St. Clair isn't ready for his choice yet and he doesn't want to hurt Ellie either. Independently, Anna says, "St. Clair was right, I'm afraid of making big decisions also. If I talked to Christopher earlier, I would of had him." This realization moment is showing that Anna is also afraid of making big choices, and that affected her negatively. This also makes me realize that Anna understands why St. Clair won't leave Ellie.

           In, conclusion, Anna and St. Clair have no confidence to confess to each other. I think people can have a tough time making choices which can affect one negatively. This book is really valuable to me because it shows the idea on how people can't be confident about their choice of something. This book made me realize that you need to take time making choices on important issues or else you will loose things.