Eleanor & Park question

Yeah, what A.J. said.

Eleanor ran away the night she and Park were in the back seat of his car because Richie found her box with all her personal things in it (gifts from Park, makeup from Mindy, and so on) and thus he found out that she had a boyfriend. Richie and her mom were arguing over it and she found a note in her calling her a whore and all that, and the note matched the sexual ones that were being written in her book. She concluded that he was the one writing those notes and now that he knew that she was dating someone, who knew what he was going to do. He was probably going to beat her, rape her, or kick her out again. That's why she ran away.

The reason she ran away was cause 1) She was scared. I mean he beat her mom like crazy for no reason. Now he has a reason to beat HER. 2. She was tired of all that crap at home. I mean her moms is just there, doing nothing about her own problem I think Eleanor was taking her own problem in her own hands , instead of giving them to her mom, which he's been doing for a while. 3. She needed a new start. She needed to start all over. She couldn't go on with all the negativity and all the beating. I think she did the right thing of leaving. I wonder if she'll go back to Park though.

Basically she said I love you and she was headed back to him

I'm not satisfied with ending , there should be more about them.

Why didn't eleanor call or wrote a letter to park when she was in her uncle's?

Richie at some point was going to rape Eleanor. She knew it, her mom knew it, and Richie knew it. That's why Eleanor bathed as soon as she came home from school and why her mother stood watch over the curtain while she bathed. I think two or three times it is mentioned that Eleanor looks much like her mother. So, clearly Richie would be drawn to her physically as well as it providing him the opportunity to ruin her life. Eleanor's mother would be able to provide little help, and if it happened, would probably try to prevent Eleanor from pressing charges. There is a line in the book in which Eleanor tells Park that Richie will kill her. He asks her if she is serious and she responds that he might really kill her, or kill her in other ways. If he were to assault her, and her family not back her up, which all the signs are there that they wouldn't, they've aligned themselves with Richie, that would be what finally breaks Eleanor.

I think its because she doesn't want to be her mom that she avoids all contact with Park once she leaves. She loved Park, but it was the same needy love her mom had for Richie.

does anyone know what the postcard said and the very end??? the one eleanor sends to park the three words she wrote?

I agree with Kellie; at some point, Richie would rape Eleanor. In fact, I can't help but wonder if some questionable behavior happened in the past, and that's why it was so easy for Eleanor's mom to let her be "kicked out" for almost a year. It just might have been safer to have Eleanor out of the house and away from Richie.

She ran away because she wanted to get away from Richard and because she knew that he found her stuff, she knows he would kill her.