Burned

All She Ever Really Wanted

All she ever really wanted was someone to love her, someone to know her, someone to hold her

All she ever really found was someone to mistreat her, someone to deceit her, someone to beat her

All she ever really showed was the anger surrounding her, the love hidden deep inside her, the pain all around her

All she ever really knew was her way of life, no the Mormon way of life, no her father’s way of life.

All of that really changed the summer she stayed with Aunt J., the summer she became herself, the summer she met Ethan

All she ever really wanted she gained that summer, they both held her, knew her, loved her

But as quick as that came it went, all that love was ripped right out from under her

I think in this poem I describe many aspects of this book. I show that what she wants is somebody to love her, and to take care of her, while no one in her life does. Not even her parents really love her. According to her dad she’s just another kid, who should have been a son. In the book she also does try a little to look for someone to love her and she meets Derek. They go out for a little and he tricks her into thinking he has feelings for her. Her parents don’t really take care of her, but they expect her to take care of her six little sisters. On top of her father is an alcoholic, and when he drinks, he beats her mother, and soon starts to beat her, and one of her sisters. She is a Mormon, but learns that she really doesn’t, believe in the Mormon beliefs, but is still forced to follow the Mormon rules, and expectations. So since Derek wasn’t a Mormon, she had to pay very series consequences when her parents found out about them. Ultimately she was sent to her Aunt J’s. for the summer.

She thought having to be there the whole summer would be afoul, but it turned out to be amazing. Her Aunt J. truly cared about her and loved her, something she had never experienced before. Also, while she was there, she met the love of her life, Ethan. The only problem was he was not a Mormon, someone her father would never accept. So when she came home after the summer it was extremely hard for her to transition back to her own unloving, life. It became worse though as she found out she was pregnant with Ethan’s baby. Pattyn knew, that her father would stop at nothing to punish her, and even if he didn’t kill her, which he might, he would definitely kill Ethan. So her plan was to run away with Ethan. While driving, they got in a car crash. Both Ethan, and her baby died. Everything she loved, she lost.