![]() ![]() How does Blues attitude toward him begin to change? Does he alter the way that he treats her? Try to imagine their future relationship how might they feel toward each other? At the start she loves and trusts him unconditionally, but at the end she has hard questions for him. The relationship between Blue and her father changes over Blues senior year.What is your opinion of him at the novels conclusion? Go back to some passages in the book where Blue hints that he is hiding something, such as when she describes her frightening apprehension, at the age of eleven, that he is a terrifying, red-faced stranger bearing his dark, moldy soul (p. ![]() Yet there are clues that all is not right with Gareth. He dazzles women, is adored by his students, and is completely committed to his daughter. ![]() Her father, Gareth van Meer, is her opposite: charming and callous, verbose and secretive.What did you think of her when we first meet her? How does she change over the course of the novel? At the end, what new characteristics has she acquired? She is quiet, in thrall to her father, bookish, and solitary. Blue describes herself as a Jane Goodall, an observer not a main actor. ![]()
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