Prompt Two

Q: How do the characters evolve throughout the course of the story? What events trigger such changes?

A: Yolande is the main character in this book. At the beginning she is a sweet girl who loves spending time with her mom and her best friend Gabrielle. She is trying to grieve from the loss of her father. During the day the two girls work at the Y Camp and at night they hang out and watch movies. When Yolande starts seeing Etienne, who is twenty-one, her character starts changing. She starts to become more rebellious. She spray paints signs, sneaks out,  goes clubbing late at night, sleeps around with various men and starts pushing away her best friend. Yolande becomes defensive of what she thinks is true love. This leads her character further into the world of prostitution, somewhere she never thought she would go. Leading a double life was hard for her and brought her to a crashing point. By the end of the book, she realizes how she’s changed and what she really thought was love never was. She then starts to return to her original character, when she sees the true side of Etienne and that he was only using her.