The character I admire is Pixie as she is willing to
accept changes. Her parents are divorce and she lives with her mother but
spends two weekends with her father and his new family. The textual evidence is at page 83, first paragraph, 5th line “
… now it means that I have to spend weekends at their house…”. This
prove that Pixie does not mind living with her father’s new family. If she
actually finds it is a bother going to the house, she would have refuse to go
until the very end. Her father’s new family includes her stepmother, Lucy and two stepsisters, Sophie
and Hetty. She learns to ignore her stepmother as a way to deal with her but
her stepsisters drive her mad, especially Hetty. The
textual evidence is at page 83, first paragraph,3rd line, “…they
drive me up the wall…”
When Sophie and Hetty quarrel one day,Pixie finds that
she has to share her room with Hetty who moves out of Sophie’s room. She
protests against Hetty moving into her room but finds no sympathy from anybody
in the family.The textual evidence is at page 83, 1st
paragraph, line 14, “…Lucy and Dad decided the sensible thing was to move Hetty
out of her sister’s bedroom into mine…” Her spirited character refuses
to let her accept Hetty’s move into her room calmly. She plots to get Hetty out
of the room. The textual evidence is at page 87,second
paragraph, first line, “…first, I tried a haunting…”. Then, page 89,
first paragraph, line 2, “…next day I tried something different to drive her
out, bothering her back…” However, those attempts failed and finally she tried
the semi silent treatment. The textual evidence is at
page 89 , paragraph 4, first line , “… I tried the next tack to get her out of
my room, the semi silent treatment…” .All these actions she took prove
that Pixie is a strong willed person as she does not give up easily in the
things that she puts her mind to.. However, this leads to a confrontation with
her stepmother who wants to find out more about her problem with Hetty.
When she faces Lucy, Pixie decides that she does not want
to pretend that she is happy with the way things are in the house. This shows
that she is willing to solve the problem that she had been facing instead of
running away from it. The textual evidence is at page
90, paragraph 5 , line 7, “… most of all, I was sick of pretending…” As
Pixie and Lucy pour their grievances out to each other, she realised that her
father is as much to be blamed for the situation they are in. He never made an
effort to find out how difficult it is for Pixie to fit into her new family and
seems to pretend that everything is all right. He always leaves it to others
like Lucy to sort things out in the family. The
textual evidence is at page 92, last
paragraph, first line, “… he obviously sensed that there was trouble brewing,
and rather than come in to help us sort it out, he just decided to stay safely
out of things, as usual…”
Pixie shows that she
is mature enough to accept her stepmother and stepsisters once she understands
their own dilemma and how Pixie herself is to be equally blamed for the
miserable situation they are in. She
readily agrees with her stepmother to allow their relationship to grow and soon
finds out that is not that difficult after all. The
textual evidence is at page 103, paragraph 4, second line, “… She still a little wary of me, and I still get
on with her that bit better when all the
lights are out…” Her insight and maturity have enabled her to
turn her miserable situation around and perhaps find the happiness that she
seeks with her new family.
To conclude, Pixie is a person that accepts changes in
her life. She actually does not mind living with Lucy and her daughters, Sophie
and Hetty. She is also determined in the things she does. Apart from that, she
is a problem solver. Unlike her father, she intends to get rid of the
discomfort in her new family. Lastly, Pixie is a mature girl. She stopped
behaving like a child after knowing the difficulty Lucy was. She starts to
adapt to her new family after that.
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