Blog Entry Number 5

Since my last blog a have read and finished a few different books, but the one that I just currently finished was “Along for the Ride” by Sarah Dessen, so I will be connecting that one to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” These two books are very different in many ways, but they also do have a few things that are similar. The one main thing about these two books that is very similar are the characteristics and traits between the character’s Auden in “Along for the Ride” and Hermia in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” These two characters are very much alike. Both of them are very rebellious and don’t listen to their parents, but in different ways. Auden’s parents from “Along for the Ride” never let her have any fun when she was growing up, made her study all the time, and basically never let her leave the house. Now that she’s now seventeen and committed to a university, she wants to have fun and get to do all the things that she never got to do when she was a kid. She goes behind her parents back and sneaks around in the middle of the night with her new friend Eli and does all of these this that most kids did a long time ago, like learning to ride a bike. Her parents are furious that she is doing these things, even though they aren’t a big deal at all, but they still don’t get why she is doing all these things. Hermia from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is rebellious and doesn’t listen to her parents just like Auden, but hers is more harming and a bit more serious. Hermia wants to run away with Lysander and not listen to her father at all, but it could cause her a lot of trouble. Her dad wants her to marry Demetrius and if she doesn’t then he says that she will have to become a nun and never be able to love anyone. Since both of these characters Auden and Hermia have a rebellious side to them and don’t really listen to their parents, I fell like they add a lot of excitement to both of the stories and you don’t really know what is going to happen next with them.