Reading Blog #7 Compare and Contrast

          I feel like the book Blackbox by Julie Schumacher and Backlash by Sarah Darer Littman are books that have both similarities and differences. They're both similar because they both involve having a sister who becomes depressed. In Blackbox, Elena's older sister, Dora, becomes depressed and Elena is affected poorly and in Backlash, Sydney's older sister, Lara, becomes depressed and Sydney is affected poorly. The reasons are different though. Dora just naturally becomes depressed. She stopped doing her homework, she lost a lot of weight, she slept too much, and she wasn't doing her hair anymore but nobody knew the reason why whereas in Backlash, Lara became depressed over bullying. She was cyber bullied and it caused her to attempt suicide. A similarity is that they both attempted and they both did it the same way. Lara was found in a bath tub with empty bottles of pills and Dora was found shaking on the floor with little tablets rained down on the floor. The stories are both similar and different. Sydney and Elena both go through the same things too. Having to deal with everything people say at school and trying to ignore it.