Reading Response 4: This Lullaby

For this week’s blog, I’ve decided to read This Lullaby by Sara Dessen. It is about an eighteen years old girl named Remy who is about to leave for college. Her father who is a musician has died before she was born. Before he died, he wrote her a song called “This Lullaby.” Remy’s mother, on the other hand, is getting married for the fifth time to a car salesman. Consequently, love is something that Remy doesn’t believe exists, because in the past, the relationships she has been through have never lasted. One day, however, Remy randomly meets Dexter who claims to have felt a connection the moment he sees her. He is messy, and a musician, but very persistent. Soon, Remy finds herself slowly falling for him. But what makes him so different to all the guys she has dated? Will their relationship last or will it fall like the others? You’ll have to read and find out.

Here are the lyrics "This Lullaby":
This lullaby is only a few words

A simple run of chords

Quiet here in that spare room

But you can hear it, hear it

Wherever you may go

I will let you down

But this lullaby plays on...

"This Lullaby" is very important to this novel because not only does it contribute to the name of the novel, but it's building background of the novel. Without the song, "This Lullaby", the characters wouldn't act the way they do. Situations wouldn't make sense and there wouldn't even be a novel to begin with.

The main character, Remy, is a very detailed and realistic person. She’s very believable in how she acts like any average girls with her faults and weaknesses. The author is very honest from the beginning about telling the reader about her vivid description. Remy isn’t just described through the author, but through dialogues and the reader’s own interpretation of her as well.  Remy is very stubborn when it comes to rules, yet very headstrong and determined when it comes to her friends and goals. Remy is quite a unique character and Sara Dessen has done a wonderful job with her.