Owen's Radio Show

Outside Reading Blog #15
Just Listen
By: Sarah Dessen

Annabelle finds a guy at her school named Owen who she seems to have a thing for. He is really different from all the other guys at her school and they immediately bond. He doesn't really pay attention to the repuatation that Annabelle has been given and she doesn't really pay attention to the fact that Owen is well... a little big taller than most guys at her school. One day Annabelle is stranded at school and Owen offers to give her a ride home, and she accpets it. He then tells her about his radio show that he has and she promises that she will listen to it the next morning... even though it is at 7 in the morning. And just like Annabelle promises, she listens to the show the next morning and to her surprise, it is a anger management station. The songs are all things that she has never heard before. The next day Owen asks what she though about the show and he is telling her to be completely honest, she tells him it was intresting. Owen knows that she isn't telling the truth so she eventually tells him that she really didn't like it, but it was nothing personal. I think that Owen is really good for Annabelle because he teaches her that she can be herself around and always be herself. Instead of lying and not saying what is actually is on her mind, she expresses her feelings to him. This situation can really relate to reality because it conveys the idea to never judge a book by it's over, because in the end, the story may be much better than the picture on the outside displays it to be.