The saddest girl in the world – first post

I have read to page 82 in the book "The saddest girl in the world" by Cathy Glass. The book is about a 10 years old girl named Donna who comes to foster care. Donna's mother is an alcoholic. Donna has been through a lot and during the book you get to know more and more about what has happened to her.

The main character in this book is Donna but you're following Cathy's thoughts and she is the one who is telling the story. Cathy is Donna's carer and she has two children of her own. Cathy is a person who cares about everyone else and she has a big patience. She is also good at understanding people and deal with difficult situations.

Donna is a very quiet girl. In the beginning of the book Donna doesn't speak at all, she only answers by nodding or shaking her head. She always goes with her head down and looks very sad. When she has been in care for a while, she starts to talk. She doesn't talk much and she doesn't have any movement in her voice. She always talk with the same tone in her voice, when she is happy she doesn't sound happy and when she is telling something horrible she doesn't show any feelings in her voice. You can understand that Donna has been through a lot of horrible things in the past by the way she is acting. She is always very afraid and she thinks everyone is going to hurt her if she does something wrong. Donna has no confidence and doesn't think she can do anything.

Donna is also very obsessed to do everything right, just because she had to do that when she lived with her biologic family. She is also very obsessed to help and clean. Donna didn't have any childhood and you can really see that she doesn't know how to play or have fun. She never plays with Cathy's children she just watches them instead.

Edna is also a very big part of the story. Edna is Donna's social worker and she has been looked over Donna's family for 3 years and tried to make her mother stop drinking. When Donnas mother didn't do anything about her problems Edna had to take the children away from her. Before Donna came to Cathy she was in one other foster care together with her brothers. It didn't work for Donna and her brothers to live together so Edna took her to Cathy instead. If Donna does or tells Cathy anything Cathy has to report to Edna what Donna has done or said - especially if it is something important. In the book there are often dialogs between Edna and Cathy, because of that Edna becomes a big part of the story.

Rita, who is Donnas mum, has a big impact on the story. She is very careless and seems rude in my eyes. In the book she says the most awful things to Donna when they meet at school. She is also an alcoholic and she beats her children, mostly Donna. I am sure you will find out more about Rita during the story and find out more awful things that she has done to her kids.

I don't think the characters in the book are described very well, but I also think that is good. When the characters don't get described so much you can create your own picture of the person. In the book you get to know their personalities more and more by the way they are and act. It's always happening something new and unexpected in the book and I think that makes the book so interesting.

// Anonymous