First post...

Chosen passage:
"One way to look at what happened is that everything is the fault of my optometrist and his enthusiasm for those miserable eyedrops that make your eyes supersensitive to light. But if I've learned on thing from all this, it's that there's generally more than one way to look at anything.
So, from the beginning, a few points to remember:
1) Without glasses, I can't see farther away than about a goot and a half beyond the tip of my nose.
2)Glasses may improve someone's seeing, but they've never improved anyone's looks.
Sure, parents, grandparents, and eyeglass salesmen will assure you that you're cute as a button with your glasses on- if what you want to look like is a cute button, though that's not my idea of a big selling point. But in any case, what's the first thing a movie director does to a gorgeous actress when he needs her to look plain for a role"(Velde 3)?

I think that this passage helps develop characterization because in this whole passage, it's just the main character talking. That's it. By the time the reader finishes reading the first chapter of the book, Wendy (the main character) lines up to be a typical teenage rebel who doesn't like the looks she's stuck with nor her surrounding family.

Questions from reading: How is it possible for glasses to make someone who's probably legally blind see let alone see wierd creatures, dead people (ghosts), etc? -Personally I think that would be really cool if that was possible and if it was, sign me up! Next question: Does the main character, Wendy, seriously not have anything else besides cute boys on her mind? Is there such a thing as a parallel universe that exists in our world and if so how? How were these glasses created? Whose were they originally?

-katthegreat08