The second book I read during Christmas Break is a realistic fiction called Silence by Natasha Preston. So the book is about this girl named Oakley( I know weird name) and how she wont talk. So her story is about how someone raped her and how it was all her dads fault. So her dad got into some kind of trouble with a coworker and to repay the debt he offered his daughter. Oakley was going to tell her mom but then her dad told her not to talk so she didn't. Oakley was about 11 and the story takes place when she's 17 so she hadn't talked since then. Then Oakley gets into this amazing relationship with her childhood friend and because Oakley trust Cole and because she wants her family to be happy again her father is afraid she'll finally speak.
The theme in the story is not to be afraid. Oakley was terrified of her father not she didn't speak for 6 years. She wanted a normal life again, one where she didn't feel like she was the cause of her families unhappiness and one where she could love her father again but she was afraid. Oakley was afraid that if she spoke about what happened to her, that her father would take her to her assaulter, that she would be seen as wrong, that it would destroy her family and that she would loose the Cole.
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