How I Live Now 2

As I continued through out this book How I Live Now, I came to think about my experience. When I first arrived at the United Kingdom, my pastor drove our family to our new house. I didn’t know my pastor then and I, too, felt the same awkwardness. Nevertheless, for Daisy, it must have felt different to have a strange boy give her a ride home, especially when he was her cousin. She would have thought that a small boy driving a car with a cigarette seemed quite inappropriate but she didn’t say so because she thought she would look stupid. After she arrives, to her new yet ancient house, the one unlike her old house back in the New York City, she is introduced to her cousins and aunt. In my opinion, I thought at first they seemed quite indifferent when Daisy came over because they didn’t even know her name. The strange thing for me was that Edmond had a twin. It is strange to go out with a cousin of yours even though you had no idea who that person was but I thought this book was going to be full of love stories. However, with another boy who looked exactly the same except for the eye colors just messes up my whole assumption.

Coming from a city and moving into a rural area is not an easy thing to go through. This is because there are so many things that are done differently. For example, different ways of spending one’s leisure time or the menus for each meal. I definitely freaked out when I visited my grandmother’s house when I was young. I was also used to live in the urban areas so when I came over to my grandmother’s house, I didn’t like a thing from that lame countryside. I hated it. However, Daisy seems pretty fine living in her new home, getting along with her cousins and her aunt—yet.