The main character in the story shows her personality by the actions she takes because as you read the story she says how she is bulimic and she adds a lot of detail of what she does to herself. She doesn't see herself as being ¨sick¨ because she thinks that sticking her fingers in her mouth help her and she says that that doesn't mean she has a disease. Janie the main character, asks if nothing's wrong with her and she doesn´t know exactly why she's at the Camp Golden Slopes, which is the place she goes to for people with eating disorders. Janie also is the type of person who isn't afraid to speak her mind because when she sees something or something someone does and doesn't like it, she says something about it because it annoys her. She doesn't like how she looks like because she thinks she too overweight but in reality she is underweight but tries and to lose more weight by sticking her fingers in her mouth to throw up all of her food that she had already eaten. She isn't allowed to have a napkin on her lap and she have any sort of object that could possibly kill someone like shoelaces. She hates these rules because normally no one uses any of these to harm themselves. Janie also can't exercise because they have to have a certain amount of weight before they start exercising but other people find way to lose exercising like going up and down the stairs to burn off the extra calories she confused throughout the whole day of her eating because she doesn't like feeling heavy and full.

Gemma shoes her personality by the action she takes by showing how she is shy and has many questions to ask but never bothers to ask because she doesn't want to make things awkward with ¨Ty¨ ( Another character who follows Gemma everywhere she goes but introduces himself by paying for Gemma's coffee). She also doesn't really like to show her emotions because she only smiles at him when he asks her something that she thinks is funny. 

I really haven't gotten into the book yet because i recently just started reading it but by the way she is described by the author and the things she says makes her seem like the type of person who talks a lot because she says that she mumbles and she needs to drink the coffee to make her stop talking and to stop telling him about what her mom and dad do for a living. She has a feeling that Ty has been following her because Gemma always seems to find him everywhere she goes but she never said anything about it to her parents. She also was afraid to ask Ty why he would always follow her but she didn't want to make it sound like she knew she was being followed by him because he's around his twenty meanwhile she is still in school in high school. This is how Gemma shows her personality by the actions she makes.

 

During the story, Gemma (main character) does change. Gemma changes because of what Ty did to help. Throughout the story so far, she was kidnapped by Ty because he pretended to put in sugar into her coffee but instead, he drugged her drink. She was fine until she drank the coffee, she was a little dizzy but couldn't do much to help her stop being dizzy and also because Ty was talking her somewhere, She had no idea where. As shes waking up, she arrives at the place Ty brought her to. She was worried, nervous, and afraid because she had no clue where she was. Ty was being really nice to her and he kept telling Gemma that she was alright and that he wouldn't let anything or anyone hurt her, not even himself. Gemma was still very nervous because she wanted to get out of there. There were also no people around her, just a few buildings, that also worried her because she wanted someone to help her. Ty explained to her that there were no people around because they were in the middle of a dessert of Australia which was not on the map at all, so no one would know she was missing or where she was. As days past, she started feeling more comfortable with him but she challenged and forced herself to because she wanted to find out more things about where, why, and how she got to the place shes at right now, she also wanted to find out more things about Ty so she could win him trust so she could secretly sneak out of there and leave and hopefully find someone that could help her. Gemma was very daring because shes alone in a different country than she originally at. Gemma didn't want to hurt him but she also needed to get out because Ty didn't let her after she tried to hurt herself the first day or week she was there, so Ty would rather keep her inside of the house. If i were Gemma i´d be terrified but not at the same time because Ty is taking very good care of her and isn't doing anything to harm her but kidnapping her sure wasn't the way so he could win her heart.

 

I wonder if Gemma's parents are looking for her and have already reported it to the police. What is going to happen when they actually do find her or if they never find Gemma and he stays with Ty forever? A lot of problems in the text are ignored by the characters because Ty the one who kidnapped Gemma, has been following her since she was 10 and had been planning to take her away for about 2 or 3 years now and Gemma is now 16 years old. Before Gemma was taken away, she always had a feeling that someone was following her or stalking her but  she never thought anything about it because again, she was 10 years old and didn't know if anyone was actually stalking or following her. Another issue that is ignored in the story is when Ty tries to force Gemma to do things she doesn't want to do. He should be letting her be alone after he kindnapped her and how he has her trapped in from going anywhere and getting lost because everything looks the same there since there aren't many trees or anything around her. An issue that is addressed in the book is when Gemma tries to harm herself in the beginning of when Ty kidnapped her and she woke up after that. Ty put locks on the draws where he kept all his knives and sharp things so that gemma wont go inside them and try harming herself again.