How do you deal with your problems? Do you run away from them out of fear? Or simply try to make them better? In the book, “A-List #4-The Tall Cool One” By Zoey Dean, the author shows us readers the many ways these rich californians deal with their many problems. Many of the problems you would expect to see like, “oh my nail broke” aren’t actually visible in this book. Dean connects their problems back to regular people dealing with all of life’s many obstacles. Many people can relate to this book and the ways the characters deal with their problems.
Anna has always been the perfect one. Perfect body, perfect face, perfect grades, you would assume she has no problems to worry about. Well, you’re wrong, Anna’s problem is she doesn’t know how to let loose. In other words, uptightness. After 3 hours on a plane to L.A. she does something she would never even think of doing, she starts flirting with a random hot guy on the plane, starts making out with him, then follows him back to his house and starts becoming a part of his life. I believe the reason she did this is because her best friend, Cyn, is very much a dare-devil and likes to live on a high-wire, and because Cyn got the guy Anna had liked, I believe Anna was trying to be more like her friend and possibly meet someone amazing. Her way of dealing with her problem of uptightness is ignoring the little angelic voice in her head guiding her away from doing the naughty. By using this method she meets many new friends in L.A. and wins Ben’s (the hot guy of the plane) heart I believe many people in the world can relate to this feeling of wanting a break and just wanting to be a little risky and let loose of the tight knot holding them back.
Cammie has always been a player. She sleeps and dates a new guy every month. She has fully convinced herself she loves it, until she meets Adam, the most genuine and the most sweetest person she’s ever met. He means everything he says and truly devotes his time into something he loves. She immediately falls for him, which is unusual for her and she suddenly has no idea how to act since she’s used to just the physical and not the verbal part of a relationship. Since she isn’t the sweetest person amongst her group of friends she has to make a serious effort to act like the angel Adam falls for. She lies whenever he expressed his interest in something, and says she is interested in it as well. However, when she is with him she feels pure happiness and bliss. She really wants to be with him but she doesn’t know how to act or even be around a nice person without shooting back a nasty remark every couple seconds in a conversation. She finds herself lying more than ever before, and more than she could imagine possible and she still hasn’t realized that Adam is falling for a fake Cammie and not the real one. I believe any people in this world can relate to Cammie’s urge of shifting to lies. Once you’re under the spell of love for the person you’re with you will do anything, even lying about your true self to get them to like you. I don’t necessarily believe lying is a great option to rely on for back up however. Lying is how Cammie deals with her problems.
To conclude, I have realized that Anna’s way of dealing with her problem of uptightness is a lot more reliable if you are hoping for some form of a resolution. Lying is never the way to go in my opinion, and in many other people’s as well. Lying digs you deeper into the problem and makes it harder to get out of the hole you have created. So now, in the future, based on Cammie’s road with lying so far, I am not going to lie in a time of need and desperation.
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