Gwendy - Illustrator - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - by Paula Danzinger. Until Chapter 16

I was the illustrator for today's discussion and the above is the drawing I drew. I did it in four different parts as the two chapters that we read for this time were clearly split into four or five parts. In the following I'll explain the different quarters of the drawing.The whole drawing pretty much represents Nancy's party and what happens after it.

1. First Quarter of the drawing
This quarter represents when Marcy and Joel arrive at the doorstep of Nancy's house. With her there is her boyfriend with a six-pack and it's slightly awkward for Marcy because of Nancy having a boyfriend who's a lot older than her. When the six-pack boyfriend says 's'up.' Marcy shyly says 'Ummm... hi.' It kind of shows that she's not a very confident person in general.

2. Second quarter of the drawing
This quarter represents how weirded out Marcy is about Nancy having beer at her party. She feels even stranger when Joel is completely casual about it. She accepts it, because everyone else has it, including Joel, but I think that if Joel hadn't had any neither would she. She awkwardly pretends not to drink it after she receives it from Nancy's boyfriend which indicates that overall, her experience at Nancy's wasn't great.

3. Third Quarter of the drawing
This quarter tells us of the slightly awkward walk that Marcy and Joel have when they go back to Marcy's home. Marcy asks Joel if he felt comfortable drinking the beer and when he's says 'yeh' I think she feels slightly awkward... When the reach Marcy's doorstep Marcy's hoping for Joel to kiss her but only receives a kiss on the forehead which makes her slightly upset.

4. Fourth Quarter of the drawing
This quarter is Marcy crying on her bed, her mum crying next to her and her dad shouting at her. Marcy's dad gets angry at her dad for not letting her read the funny parts of the newspaper as he has the rights to do it first and when she gets angry at her dad and says she hates him and storms to her room, her mum starts crying. Her dad then comes into her room and starts blaming her for causing her mother to cry. The end to the few chapters we read this time really shows how much Marcy hates her dad.

And that was it! This chapter was rather dramatic!
Bai