reading response

The book “What My Mother Doesn't Know” by Sonya Sones is about a girl named Sophie. The book is on the times that Sophie has fallen in love. One of the guys is Dylan, who she eventually starts seeing only as a friend. Another guy Sophie met on the web. And the last boy that Sophie falls in love with is Murphy a guy who she least expected to fall in love with. Throughout the rest of the book she tries to find a way to tell her friends who the guy she has fallen in love with really is. I think that this book relates to the quote “never judge a book by its cover”

One way that the quote relates is that Sophie didn't really know Murphy. She sometimes felt bad and went to be his partner. For example when they were in art class she went to be his partner for the assignment on drawing your partner. Later on in the book she looks back at that drawing and notices how handsome Murphy really is. When before her and her friends didn't really think much of Murphy. When she starts to fall in love with him she sees how different she is from what she thought he was like.

Another way that the book relates to the quote is that Sophie didn't expect to fall in love with a guy like Murphy. Sophie was more into guys that seemed attractive to most girls and that were outgoing and popular. She used to think that Murphy was not like that. As she got to know him better she noticed that really there was no difference. She had had as much fun as she would have with a popular guy or even more. Like the quote she didn't really judge Murphy from the start but she didn't think that she would like him.

This book has changed my way of thinking because now I know that people aren't always how they seem. And that based on how one group of people acts you can’t use that to judge others. This relates to the real world because in many places people are judged for something they’re not. And like in the book they eventually get recognized for who they truly are.