Eleanor & Park; finished

         I recently finished my book, Eleanor and Park. I loved the book, but the ending wasn't satisfying. So what happens is, Eleanor and Park relationship gets stronger and stronger, when Richie finally snaps. Eleanor finds out that Richie is the one writing the inappropriate notes on Eleanor's notebooks. He calls her multiple bad words, and she later flees. Thats when Steve and Tina find Eleanor in trouble and invite her in Steve's garage. They talk, and Steve wakes up Park (who's house was across the street) and Park goes and gets Eleanor. Eleanor tells Park she is going to her uncles in Minnesota, and Park offers to drive her. She later waits in the car, as Park waits for his parents to go to sleep. Once their asleep, Park gets the car keys and has his own money, when his dad finds him. His dad is okay with him going, and gives him more money. Park then starts driving, and 20 pages later, they are at Eleanor's uncles. Eleanor's aunt and uncle automatically take her in, as Park drives away. Park makes it home safe, and finds that his mom was very worried. Although they are far away, Park sends packages and letters, all the time, but Eleanor never replies back. Later, Park gives up and stops sending mail. He writes it, but never sends it. At the end of the book, its Park's point of view, it says he has some mail. He gets a postcard. From Minnesota. With three very caring words on it, for Park.

         So, Im doing the signpost Tough Questions. Theres a really big one for Eleanor. More like 3. The first is if she wants to go to Minnesota. Yes, she wants to leave the wrath of Richie, but she ran out of the house, leaving her family behind. This is the big question. Does she want to be safe, or does she wants to risk her life saving her family. She later decides to leave her family, because she knows their is a high probability of her dying if she went back to the house. Another big question is if when she leaves, does she wants to have a long distance relationship with Park, or save him the pain, and break up with him. Yes, her and Park love each other, but she doesn't want to have a long distance relationship, because she knows it won't work. She ends up, breaking up with him, and going into her aunt and uncles house. She loves Park, but does want him to get hurt if she just doesn't have time to talk to him, or write letters to him. The last tough question that Eleanor has, is writing back to Park. After Park dropped Eleanor off, he has sent many letters about his day, and what the big news is back at school. It wasn't easy for Eleanor to write a letter. Every time she started to write it, she couldn't write the words she wanted. She ended up crying and throwing the unfinished letter away. At the end of the book, Eleanor sends a postcard, with the three words everyone wants to hear. Now the book didn't say the words, but the way it was described makes me sure the words were, I love you.