Part One:
I read the book Something like Fate by Susane Colasanti. Lani is the main character in this book she has long black hair and hazel-blue eyes. Her best friends are black and Erin. She had known Erin for years and is very close with her. One thing Lani loves doing is checking her Horoscope. She found out that she’s a Taurus which means that she loves nature, seeks comfort, connects with the Earth, into serenity, stubborn, passionate, and nurturing.
Lani is a caring person. She cares a lot about the environment. There’s a group in her school called our world, she cares so much about the world that she is the president of the group. Any extra time she has she’s making posters to tell people that they should recycle instead of throwing it away in the garbage.
Another thing about Lani is that she’s brave. When she and Erin were little they got in a really bad car crash, and ended in a lake. Then later in the book Lani wants to learn how to swim for her family reunion in Florida. So she takes swimming lessons, but every time she goes in the water she feels like she can’t breathe and she freaks. At the end of the book she learns how to swim without freaking out.
The last characteristic about Lani would be that she’s a good friend. When she thinks that meeting Jason is fate, and their soul mates she hides her feelings for him because she knows how much Erin likes him. When her friend Blake tries to tell Lani that she needs to go out with Jason, and that their made for each other she just tells him that she can’t do that to her.
Part Two:
This book has one flashback in it. It was when Lani was talking about how she’s afraid of swimming. She said it was she and Erin were little and they were driving home from a Girl Scout meeting and they had to drive in a really bad rain storm. Lani and Erin didn’t really know each other then, but they were friends. While Erin’s mom was driving the rain got worse and worse until her mom swerved of the road in a lake. Her mom was knocked out cold, and the girls didn’t know what to do. So Erin told Lani to come in the back with her, and that saved Lani’s life. So Lani has always been afraid to go swimming.
