Slice of Cherry

               

I recently finished a book called Slice of Cherry, by Dia Reeves. The main conflict in my book was that the main character, Fancy, does not want to ever grow up and change. She is also having a hard time seeing her sister Kit grow apart from her, especially when Kit gets a boyfriend. She and Kit never did anything apart, ever. You see throughout the story how Fancy struggles to stay a child and prevent Kit from becoming an adult. Kit starts to where makeup, perfume, nail polish, and fashionable clothes, while Fancy refuses to stop wearing her old clothes. Fancy tries everything to stop Kit from changing. She thinks that once Kit becomes an adult and gets a boyfriend, she will stop loving Fancy. You start to see though, how Fancy becomes more mature. She acts less rationally and she becomes more sophisticated. It happens very slowly, but by the end of the book, she basically excepts that she is a young adult and not a child. She also very grudgingly accepts the fact that she needs to let Kit go, but you see her becoming more okay with it by the end.

The theme of this book is that you need to be willing to accept change, because you cannot just avoid it. And though you can try to postpone or prevent change, it is much easier to just accept it with open arms.