How To Shoot A Gun
Later after visiting the nursing home, Hassan tells Colin that he went out with Lindsey´s friend, Katrina, and kissed her. Sadly, Colin does not react very nicely about this news and the two friends get in a fight about it. Then, Hassan and Colin get invited to go hunting with Lindsey and her friends, which results in Lindsey teaching Colin how to shoot a gun (and ends up showing him a secret cave that she discovered on accident when she was younger). The three of them join Lindsey´s friends for the hunt but, after being left alone, Hassan and Colin accidentally shoot a hornet nest instead of a pig. They are later chased and stung by the hornets, until they run up to a graveyard, where they find Katrina with a guy.
Thinking About...
“ ‘We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.’ ” (Green, 144)
This is something that Lindsey said to Colin when they were alone in her cave. While I read and tried to understand this quote, I realized that Lindsey should be actually be pretty lonely in order to feel (or be) invisible. I guess this surprised me because in the majority of the book, she is surrounded by both her friends and her boyfriend, so, I guess I expected her to feel accompanied by them. On the other side, the book also explains that Lindsey does not spend that much time with her mom as she would like (Lindsey even calls her by her name and not as “mom”). So, I guess she feels a bit lonely because she doesn't spend that much time with her mom, or because she doesn't really care for her friends. But, in all honesty, I guess we all get a little bit lonely sometimes.
“ ‘The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.’ ” (Green, 147)
Lindsey says this to Colin when they are sitting together in her secret cave and she is trying to explain about her more than ordinary life to him. This quote is kind of a conclusion to Lindsey, a type of lesson she has been taught. She acts in different ways around different people she knows and people she meets, but the problem is that she doesn't know who she really is any more. This quote made me feel strangely upset because it got me thinking of what really is real and what is not, but it also made me think about the reason behind acting different around different people. I came to the conclusion that, like all of us, Lindsey is scared of being judged for who she is, therefore changing to be accepted. I have definitely felt this way and I think that so has everybody else. Overcoming this is not easy, but I just hope that Lindsey can be able to discover herself, and will be able to stay true to this self.
Almost Done
There has been a lot more happening in the last few chapters that I read than I expected to. I mean, in the last chapters or so, Colin and Hassan came out of their comfort zone and went hunting with some other people, that surprised me a bit. But either way, Lindsey has yet to find out the reason behind her mother's want (or need) to sell part of their property to a guy that no one had ever heard of before. I am also curious about knowing who is the guy that Colin and Hassan saw Katrina with at the end of chapter 15. Anyway, I am really looking forward to continue reading what is left of the book. I honestly have no idea how it's gonna end since I think there are still a lot of things that have to be cleared up before the book ends.
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