Status Updates From The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

Chapter 3- “ I think that’s exactly what eyes the man who raped my mother has too” - Louie pg 29. Her mother was raped and then she had Louie.

Chapter 3- “After I bought the necklace i pretend to be fully white” - Louie pg 26. “In this house we don’t talk about what happened to my mom at sixteen - Louie pg 27. She would lie to everyone about who she really was.

There’s a new character introduced his name is king and she seems to care a lot about what he thinks he left town but she thinks he back because of the schedule says his name on it. Louie’s mom was 16 when she had her. Louise says how she would tell people she was fully white say her mom was catholic Ukrainian.

Chapter 3 - Louise mentions her mom’s past trauma in the first three chapters but doesn’t go into it. Louie’s and her mom have lived in the house they are now for the longest they live on a farm. Louise seems to be close with her uncles.

Chapter 2- People probably see him as a nice guy because he drives a nice car but really he’s actually not at all.

Chapter 2 - He is still driving the vehicle when he tells her to get out of the car. “Tuck and roll, Lou” - Wyatt pg 17 Louise and her mom are métis. She grabs her stuff and jumps out of the car. I find Wyatt doesn’t seem like the type of guy that would be okay with the word no and can’t understand that not everything is about him all the time.

Chapter 2 - this can be related to a lot of situations in teens lives where they partner asks them to do something that don’t really want to do. She gets really tired of the way he asks her to do stuff all the time. He moves his hand up her thigh she pulls him away “it’s not sexy. It hurts” - Louise pg 16. she tell him she wants to break up.

Chapter 2 - Wyatt seems to be kind of the guy to be pushy. He is in the car with Louise and he asks her to do something in the movie theatre that she really doesn’t want to do. “Come on, Lou you don’t have to like giving BJs for you to you know go to down” - Wyatt pg 15.

Chapter 2 - Louise’s mom doesn’t seem to really like Wyatt all that much. louise boyfriend Wyatt they’re going on a date, but it doesn’t seem like she actually likes him like she says that they kiss but she doesn’t feel anything. Her age is 18.

Chapter 1 - They all kind of seem on edge so they decide to leave to go have dinner. I feel like on the outside they show confidence and that they’re not scared, but I think they all have a lot of anxiety and trauma.

Chapter 1 - white van turns into their ice cream store. It’s a girl with blonde hair and they can’t see the driver but the girl with blonde hair ask if they’re open and Dom says Sunday next 11 to eight. Louise asked if her mom knows who the girl was her mom kind of dodges the question and ignores her until she finally answers and says I know that she’s not a natural blonde.

Chapter 1 - You can see that Louie’s mom seems to have a lot of trauma. Louie moved a lot and she never really had a place to call home, but she always had her mom. She also wants to go to the Olympics for water polo. She lives in a single-story farmhouse with a basement. A white van turns into their ice cream store.

Chapter 1 - they go up to this place to do work and they’re all indigenous. Louie’s boyfriend hasn’t came to work yet and we find out that Florence is bipolar. Louie is worried that her boyfriend isn’t gonna come help them the whole summer and that it will affect her family survival. Even though she feels this emotion she doesn’t show it to the people around her. Florence notice her picking at her cuticles