高二一班夏嘉慧BackgroundThis is a story about thelove at first sight whichhappened between a girland a boy in 1960’sAmerica. The maincharacters are July Bakerand Bryce Losik.《Flipped》is a story of youth. In our youth, love is everywhere. Our parents love us, we also love them. And friendship has love as well. This story tells about the love of youth.AbstractIt’s a story showed from the perspective of two people watching the same issue. A little girl Juli and a little boy Bryce met at their second grade. Juli fell in love with her newly moved neighbor because of his dazzlingeyes. But Bryce wasalways mad at Juliebecause of her boredbroadcast about everymorning’s school bus, herfamily’s yard was alwaysin a mess and her ugly sycamore tree.Then Julie realized that Bryce wasn’t the kind of person who is more than the sum of his parts. However, Bryce gradually began to find the merits of Julie, such as kindness,self-awareness, pureness.Bryce flipped and began tomake Julie change her mind.Bryce wanted to do somethingto cheer Julie up. And hedecided to plant a sycamoretree around her home. Julie was shocked when she saw what Bryce planted is a sycamore tree, she understood everything and finally forgave Bryce.At the end of the story, they fell in love with each.Main characters1.Bryce LoskiBryce Loski is theboy who lives next toJulie. He has beenchasing after by Juliesince they first met.Bryce was very popular in his grade and many girls like him. He is very handsome, but every once when he get along with Julie, he is at a loss. In many situations, he is just a little boy hesitating in his life and keep trying to find a way out while growing. Every Bryce’s behavior reflects the real mental of a 14-year-old boy.2.Julie BakerJulie Baker devoutlybelieves in three things: thesanctity of sycamore, thewholesomeness of the eggsshe collects from herbackyard flock of chickens, and that someday she will kiss Bryce Loski. Ever since she saw Bryce's baby blues back in second grade, Julie has been smitten. Unfortunately, Bryce has never felt the same. Frankly, he thinks Julie Baker is a littleweird--after all, what kind of freak raises chickens and sits in trees for fun? Then, in eighth grade, everything changes. Bryce begins to see that Julie's unusual interests and pride in her family are, well, kind of cool. And Julie starts to think that maybe Bryce's brilliant blue eyes are as empty as the rest of Bryce seems to be. After all, what kind of jerk doesn't care about other people's feelings about chickens and trees?Little Julie has many virtues which impress me. First, she adhered toherself. She loved the sycamore tree in their block. Because she could sit at the braches for hours and amazed by the view. When someone wanted to cut the sycamore tree down, she sat there bravely to protect it. She didn’t care about others’ incomprehension and ridicule.Second, she showed sympathy for the weak. She loved her uncle, although he had a severe handicap. And she bid for the Basket boy number 8 at Mayfield Boosters Club Action because no one bid for the boy. Last but not least, she had a strong feeling of self-respect on her own. She had the ability to rationally judge whether Bryce is worth to love.Plat impressing me most1. A painting is more than the sum of its parts. A cow by itself is just a cow. A meadow by itself is just grass, flowers. And the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light. But you put them all together and it can be magic.2. Some days thesunsets would bepurple and pink.And some days theywere a blazingorange setting fireto the clouds on the horizon. It was during one of those sunsets that my father's idea of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts moved from my head to my heart.CommentsThere are two families withtwo children in this book, so wecan also see people withdifferent personalities. Whenyou were young, you may havea lot of things confused. In sucha stage a mentor or a guide is a very important thing.Bryce is lucky, he had agrandfather in life to tell him who heis and he should become a kind andhonest person. Just as the dialoguesays,” Some of us get dipped in flat,some in satin, some in gloss. Butevery once in a while you findsomeone who's iridescent, and whenyou do, nothing will ever compare.”Julie is also very lucky. She had afamily to give her the right values.At the end of the book, with the beautiful sycamore tree planting in front of Bryce and Julie, the two hands overlapped together.。