Character Profile: Sophie (Written by Savanna Smith)

Sophie keeps to her self and does not like to share her feelings with anyone, and she has a lot of anger towards people because she does not communicate her feelings and let out her emotions effectively. Because of this she is very rebellious as she would rather go against the rules than face her problems and talk to people about them. She does not seem very nice at first but as the books goes on you can tell that she is just putting up a cold front to avoid talking to people. “its not the blue hair or the rings in her nose… But she has put on so much weight and her face is so sullen. She looks dead… her skin is sallow, and there is an ugly splotch on one cheek. The hair looks as though it has been hacked off across the top, the rest falling in rats tales around her face.”(p.93). This quotation shows how she looks and acts very rebellious this also could be perceived as how people view her personality.






Sophie’s relationships with others in the novel take time to be developed as Sophie takes a long time to warm up to people and for her to feel open with them. Her relationship with her family is very tortured and damaged. She feels like she can never live up to their expectations. “While I was laying there weighing up the various advantages of poison, knives and guns, the music that drove the rest of my family mad bounced of the walls, the ceiling and floor and pounded away in my head.”(p.3). This quotation highlights the relationship with her family and how she feels about them. Her relationship with Mai and Mihn make her feel like she can be herself and she is happy, because she doesn't have to impress them. “At the point I’d simply told myself I’d made a friend. I liked Mai a lot and now I was getting on famously with her brother and that made me feel good.”(p.150). This quotation helps the readers understand how this friendship makes her feel happy and free. Sophie’s relationship with her ex-best friends Alana and Jess always made Sophie feel like she was not included and she felt used by her friends and that she always had to pretend to be someone she wasn’t. Her relation ship with Fran was very distant at the beginning of the book and she starts to slowly develop and she and Fran both realizes that they relate to each other more than they think and they build a sort of friendship.




Written by:
Savanna Smith

Evidence by:
Chelsea Uther, Chelyn Heale and Gabby Burey