Sisters 12/8/14

Prompt - Are the characters realistic (do they seem like they could be read people)? Why

or why not?

     In the book Sisters; by Raina Telgemeier, all of the characters seem realistic. First of all, I know this because it is a memoir, so, for sure these are all like real people. Second of all, there is a lot of realistic things about them. One thing that Raina (the main character) did which was very realistic was to tell her parents that she wanted a little sister.

     It was all she talked about every day. Then, when her parents surprised her and told her that they were going to have a baby, she was happy. But, as soon as the baby grew up and knew how to talk, Raina noticed that they didn't get along well. They would fight over little things and Amara (her sister) threw tantrums; which is realistic for little kids to do. 

     Something that also makes the characters realistic is that they don't have any un-realistic characteristics like super powers or anything like that. They also make mistakes in the book, like everyone does. One example of a realistic mistake was when Raina stepped on a snake.

     This happened when she was on a camping trip with her parents (before Amara was born), and she went in to the woods where she found blackberries; as she went further, she found a lot of them (blackberries) and she started going through all of the bramble, when suddenly, she stepped on a dead snake. So, that is another realistic thing about her. Lastly, I also noticed that in the picture of when she went back to her parents, she had a lot of cuts which would happen in real life if you ran in the woods with all of the branches.