One of the things that I noticed in the novel is how Sam has no female model to follow. She does have her mother, but she doesn’t live with her, and she is kind of abandoned by her. Her mother has her separate life with her new husband, leaving Sam alone with Emmett. I believe that having a female role model in your life is very important. But Sam lives alone with her uncle Emmett, and is always surrounded by Emmett’s friends, or her boyfriend Lonnie. She has no one to tell her to do or not do something.
I think that this is why she is smoking pot and getting high, getting a little drunk with her uncle, and sleeping with her boyfriend whenever she pleases.
Sam kind of looks up to Emmett, and that is fine that he is her role model… but I also think that it is important to look up to someone of your same sex. In this book, her character might as well be a boy and it would not make a difference because of the way she acts.
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I was thinking the same thing throughout the story. The only real female influence she has is from Dawn...but as we read, we realized that Dawn is not the best role model. I also think that because she didn't have any female influence, she acts more "boyish" than she would originally. I can't blame it all on only her lack of a female role model. The whole time, she is trying to figure out things about her father, and I think that's important too. She had no real mommy or daddy figures to look up to...a girl needs that.
I find the lack of a female role model in his novel interesting as well. Though you said in your post that Sam may as well be a boy and it would make no difference, but I really think it would. If Sam were a boy in the book than this post wouldn't even be on here. We wouldn't have ther concerns for her and her femaninity. I think that Sam is a girl for the shear purpose of adding in that little twist.
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