Essays on Eleanor & Park

In the novel Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor is seen as an outsider compared to the others. She tends to wear whatever she has around the house; the clothes are an odd combination. When Park gets to know Eleanor, he sees past all that. He even begins to fall in love with her to the point where he willingly does anything for her. Eleanor is seen as taciturn and bizarre at the beginning of the novel; however, as…

Eleanor and Park is about two people who come from different lives that meet. They first meet on the bus and they soon start to become friends. They start a friendship and begin to share items with one another such as tapes, headphones, comics, etc. While becoming friends many people at school are yew mean to Eleanor and she finds herself making two friends while attending gym class. People are very ugly with Eleanor and treat her horrifically but as…