Life in the Fat Lane's Cherrie Bennet

Novel Title : Life in the Fat Lane

Author : Cherrie Bennet

Synopsis

Lara Ardeche was a perfect girl with a perfect life. Once day she came to a prom night in her school in Nashville. That was best night in her life because she became a prom queen and everybody was happy but Patty Asher. She thought that Lara was so cruel in offering her help to reduce her weight.

Lara Ardeche was a perfect girl with a perfect life. Once day she came to a prom night in her school in Nashville. That was best night in her life because she became a prom queen and everybody was happy but Patty Asher. She though that Lara was so cruel in offering her help to reduce her weight.

The day after that night, Lara gained a pound. She tried to diet but the more she tried the more she gained her weight. She met her doctor and was diagnosed to have Axell-Crowne syndrome. Her parents could not accept her to be the fat queen. They did not believe that Lara followed the diet program. Lara was stressed because the diet program did not work.

Being fat did not make her confident. She decided to break up with Jett, her boy friend, because she was afraid of disappointing him. Another problem happened when her father was found cheating, thus her family needed to move out from the town to Blooming Woods, Michigan. She also got terrible treatments from her new friends in her new school.

She joined a music class and attended piano lesson. In her piano lesson, she found that being fat or blind would not be obstacles to have great achievements. Her piano teacher was fat but was so great. Devon, her friend was blind but was so good at playing instrument. She found that being so perfect like her mother would not give her guarantee to be happy.

Lara’s weight was reduced and was told that she had a chance to have her weight back to normal. At school, her ex-boyfriend came with her best friend, Molly. Jett said that he missed Lara very much. After that terrific surprise she though that although she was fat, she was still okay.

Personal Response

In my opinion, the novel is categorized to the young-adult reader level. Although it is not adventurous story novel, this is about a teenager story, about how the teenager solves the problem and love story. The story about the teenager who is trying to solve the problem and the story of love are the stories that attract young-adult reader who is mostly a teenager in this reader level. Teenager is someone who is ready to have ‘metamorphoses’ in their life. This is when the teenager changes the character from the young men character to the adult one. This level of age needs the novels that fit them. Thus, the novel like ‘Life in the Fat Lane’ is the novel that fits them, because through this novel, they can learn how to become an adult.

Yana Muhammad Fauzi

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English Literature B 06