Love Drugged - 3rd Blog of the Sumer

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Prompt - Consider the gender of the characters in your novel. How are male and female characters portrayed? How does the work portray their roles in society?

Love Drugged is a book about a fifteen year-old boy named Jamie, who lives in Chicago. He is gay and he is basically trying to stay away from anyone knowing, because he is afraid that he will be sent to "the island". The Island is something that he says is a place where gay people get sent once people find out that they are homosexual. He goes on websites that is basically just a chat room for gay people. He meets a friend and when that friend asks what school he goes to, Jamie finds out that his "friend" actually goes to his school. Now Jamie does all he can to prevent anyone else from knowing. Jamie tries to change the way he feels about boys by dating the most popular girl in school names Celia. He even takes a pill that is made to change the way Jamie sees guys.

I feel like in a book like this it is very important to see how the author portrays the characters. In this book there is a lot of detail explaining the way Jamie feels and acts and how he thinks a "man" should. In the book Jamie always looks to the jocks as a reference of what he wish he would be if he weren't gay. Jamie's girlfriend Celia is portrayed as funny, smart and in my interpretation, very girly. Celia loves animals, and  loves fashion. I feel like by just reading my description you get a picture in your head of what she looks like even though I gave any physical description of her. I think that this shows a lot about how our minds work at portraying different genders. Like by reading Celia's description most of us think of someone who is skinny and very social.

This book portrays women and men's roles very differently but at the same time, the book shows how closely linked men and women's roles are. I feel like this book really showed how one gender can really effect how the opposite gender acts, or the decisions made. In this book I learned that it doesn't really matter who you have feelings for as long as you don't lie to yourself.