Lock and key blog post

The lives of teenagers may seem very typical when an average adult is talking about one. They usually all perceive teenagers the same way. But for this teenager named Ruby, her life is a life that you wouldn't be able to compare to any (typical) life of a teenager. Ruby experiences in my opinion, one of the most confusing teenage life all because of one person.

In this book that I am reading called Lock and key, this character named Ruby who is about 17 or 18 in the beginning, lives with her mother in a farm house. And throughout Ruby's time living with her mom in this small farm house, they both make a living together off of one bedroom and the rest of their house requirements. And then all of a sudden Ruby get's abandoned by her mother and she is forced to make a living on her own for a little while. Meanwhile her landlords are unaware of Ruby's mother's disappearance so things start to go wrong in the place that they were staying in. And she has to face struggles that a normal teenager wouldn't have to face just quite yet by paying bills on their own or being forced to struggle with the circumstances that you were put in. And in this case Ruby's struggle was not being able to pay her rent, or able to fix her broken appliances. In a way I feel like this part of the book is confusing because no one in actuality could just get up and go for no apparent reason. Or not return from home one day, there would obviously have to be a logical reason for why that person left. For example, if they had gotten into an argument about something and then the next day the person would be so angry or upset that they would not show up from when the left. And I also find it confusing why Ruby doesn't seem to care as to why her mother had left in the first place.

After Ruby's mother had left the land lords had eventually found out about her living alone in the farm house for a little while and they began to question Ruby about her mother and where she had gone. And all Ruby's response was that she didn't know and then all conversation had ended there. From Ruby's response to the land lords I was under the impression that she liked to be by herself and she didn't care much for her mother. Because when her mother WAS in fact around, her mother didn't really say much to Ruby unless she had to. It was never the close mother daughter relationship that some people might have with their mothers when it's only just two people living in that household. 

I can infer that maybe since the beginning they never had a close  relationship. Ruby also has another older sister, who had left the household at 19. And got her life together because now she lives in a nice big home, happily married. But my inference is that there had to be some drama within the family within the time that Ruby's sister left and the time that Ruby and her mom lived together in that farm house. Now that the fact that Ruby was living alone in that farm house she now has to move in with her sister who she hasn't spoken to in 10 years. Which is also why I believe that Ruby's mom walked out for some dramatic reason that wasn't yet shown in the book yet. Clearly from just the beginning of the book, while reading, I can tell her life isn't like an average teenager.