Similar themes

One of the themes that our class looked at for Farenheit 451 was that you need to engage with difficult situations to achieve happiness and Montage had to do this and Jo in my book, Out of the Easy has to go through akward situations to achieve happiness. Jo has to consider leaving her home, hide a stolen, dead man'a watch and blackmail an influential, high class citizen all to fulfill her dream of getting out of her crappy life in the quarter and go to learn at a good college. All of Montag's issues amount to his goal to learn and gain knowledge so I'm many ways the books are very similar

Characterization

For my blog I want to revisit characterization in Out of the Easy. At first I had Jo as a book but she has changed a lot through the book so I think now she is more like a tree. She is growing and getting smarter as she tries to get away from the French Quarter but her roots there are holding her. With people like willie and Patrick she is having trouble just leaving. She depends on them and they depend on her so the others around her are other plants and animals the depend on her as the tree. It starts to sound bad when I explain it but all I'm saying is that she depends on the people around her as they depend on her. This might keep her there in the quarter instead of going off to a big eastern school like she wants too.