The climax highlights her final dramatic embrace of the one thing she’s always loved and it sets the stage for how Ever later approaches her parents to trust and respect her personal decision. She begins to question her choices and perspective of dance. Over the course of the story - and for the first time - Ever is praised and respected for the gift that her parents condemn.

They often make big decisions for her, like pulling her out of the school dance team, forcing her to apply for medical schools, and sending her off to Taiwan. At the start, Ever is unable to confront her parents about what she wants to do. This particularly hits home for me, and I think many others may have similar conflicts like this.

Ultimately, it may encourage teens to think twice about doing something dangerous for the sake of the danger.Īnother aspect worth discussing is the conflict between Ever’s passion and her parents’ wishes. Instead of presenting a potentially dangerous path that teens might follow, the book highlights a solution to a common inner conflict that many teenagers may relate to. This interesting new path that she makes for herself is something that never really occurred to me before. It shifts from rebelling against her parents to figuring out what she wants for herself. In one specific part of the story, she changes her mind about what she wants to accomplish in her summer. Rest assured, the story is much more than a teenager doing rebellious and risky things. I was actually pretty surprised at how Loveboat, Taipei turned out. And with them come lessons that will last a lifetime. With her taste of freedom comes a side of the rebellion, and Ever intends to take full advantage of both. Despite the camp’s intentions to educate, it’s secretly well-known by the term “Loveboat”, because students often come there to party and hook up. The reason? To attend an expensive eight-week long summer camp for prestigious Asian Americans to learn Chinese culture and language. So it’s almost characteristic when out of nowhere, Ever’s whole summer plans are thrown out the window and she’s swiftly sent on a 13-hour plane ride to the island of Taiwan. As a Chinese American, she’s had to experience numerous and outlandishly strict rules by her traditional parents. Now a high school graduate, she wants to leave Ohio behind to attend NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. But throughout her life, her parents have always interfered and intercepted with her dream in order to divert her life toward pursuing a medical field. Since she was young, all Ever Wong (18) really wanted to do was become a professional dancer. Diverse Easy Reader | Illustrated Chapter.

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