Chatacters My Life Next Door

The main character in My Life Next Door is Samantha. She isn't your average teenager. She has a mom who is a politcan and is running. She has a sister who is at Marther's Vineyard with her boyfriend for the summer and her dad left when she was still in her mom's stomach. Her mom says they are not aloud to speak or even look at the neighbors next door. But, one night that all changes. She meets Jase and starts talking to him and starts liking him. Her mom doesn't know that she has been seeing him. And that Samantha is babysitting for all the seven kids. Before Samantha meet Jase she would never get home after crew few. "Punctual to a fault, I've never understood the expression I lost track of time. I've never lost track of anything, not my cell phone, not my homework, not my work schedule, certainly not time. But this night, I do" (Fitzpatrick 100). This quotes shows that she did something that she never did before. Se stayed out past crew few and she never did that until this night with Jase. "I hand Pasty a bottle of juice, prompting a crunchy-granola-looking woman in Birkenstocks to say, "that baby is much too old for a bottle. She should be on a sippy cup by now." Who are these people, and why do they think their own opinions are only right ones? "Don't you ever just want to kill them, or at least swear at them?" I ask in a undertone, steering the cart away from the crabby sippy-cup woman, with Harry and George clinging to either side like spider monkeys. "Of coarse." Mrs. Garrett shurgs. "But what kind of example would that be?" (Fitzpatrick 107). This shows Samantha's interaction between her and Mrs.Garrett. They were in the store and everyone kept making comments about how she parents but she ignored them and went on but Samantha wasn't  use to that because her mom would never allow that. Samantha keeps the book going because there is always new problems popping up. Like how she doesn't like who her mom is dating. Or how her mom doesn't know about Jase and her babysitting. "Clay Tucker is a real mover and shaker," she says now. "I can't believe he's taking time for my little campaign." I return the strawberries to the fridge, then root around my smoothie with my spoon, looking for more prices of fruit that escaped the blender. "How'd he wind up in Stony Bay?" Did he bring a wife with him? A hometown honey? "He bought his parents a summer house on Seashell Island... Then be read about my race and couldn't help wanting to get involved." With the campaign? Or it's mom? Maybe he's some kind of secret agent, looking for ways to discredit her. But that would never work. She haven't got any skeletons in the closet" (Fitzpatrick 77). This quote shows how she doesn't like her mom's boyfriend which is one of the main problems in the story but she doesn't want to tell her mom because she doesn't know how to and doesn't want to hurt her.