Journal #1 "Canday"

Quote: "I was thinking about these things, but I wasn't really thinking about them-they were just there, just floating around like dead leaves drifting on the surface of a pond."

For the last four years I have felt like this but I have never really been able to put it into words, and explain it very well. Thoughts have always been floating in my head and I have never really been able to say much about it, because its that instinct that you can't really say much to people that you know will understand.

In the novel "Candy", Joe is thinking about Gina and Mike getting married, what it would be like when Gina moves out, and if mom and dad will ever get married again and what if mom moves back in. Joe has all these thoughts in his head but he can never really understand them. He can't really say anything to anyone that he trusts because he doesn't really understand the thoughts himself. Throughout the novel Joe starts thinking about Candy, Joe doesn't really know Candy that well. When they get together and head off to the zoo in London, Joe starts to understand more about Candy because she is explaining more about herself to Joe than at their first meeting at McDonald's.

I think Joe is going to start to understand what Candy really is and what she does for a living. Joe in this case is not going to let Candy go all that easily but he is going to fight for what Candy could be, not what she is. I think Joe is going to help Candy with her problems.