my favorite character

After reading chapter 12, I sadly have to say that we're almost at the end of SLAM. By now Sam had two really strange dreams of his future that seem very realistic. Alicia is pregnant and Sam seems to get along with him being a Dad. A lot of things happened from the beginning until now and we met many different characters: we've met Sam's and Alicia's parents, we've met Sam's friend Rabbit and maybe we've met also Sam's and Alicia's future child. Last but not least we've met Alicia and Sam, the main characters who is the whole story about.

Now you may ask which one of the characters is my favorite. I'd asked myself the same because I couldn't indetify with any of the characters at the beginning. 
Normally you'd like the main character, in this case it's Sam. But that's totally not the case here. I don't know how to describe it nicely ao I just say it as it is.

I don't like Sam. I think he's unresponsible and only thinks of himself. He doesn't take care of Alicia who's going to have HIS baby...

But this blog post isn't about how I like the main character. It's about my favorite character.

As you may noticed, I don't like Sam that much and neither I don't like Alicia that much but I like Sam's mother the most so you can say that Annie's my favorite character.
Her total name is Annie Jones and she's Sam's 32-year-old mother. She likes to compare her age to the ages of prominent people who look good.

" 'I'm four years younger than Jennifer Aniston and I'm going to be a grandmother. I'm the same age as Cameron Diaz and I'm going to be a grandmother.' " (p. 144, ll.16-19)

She has a hostile relationship with her ex-husband who is also Sam's father. Although she really loves Sam, she misses the time where she didn't have a son and no duties.

"I know she loves me, but every now and agai, in exactly this sort of situation, she conveniently forgets to mention that she's got a fifteen-year-old son." (p. 29, ll.17-20)

Annie did the same fault as Sam and became pregnant when she was a teenager and that's why she couldn't really have the time as a normal teenager. She becomes involved with Mark, a man she knows through work, and if the second dream becomes reality, Annie and Mark will have a baby together.

In total I think she's a really loving and caring person. She really loves her son but sometimes she thinks what would have happened if she wouldn't have been pregnant so early. Her realtionship to her son is friendly and they act more than friends than like mother and son. Although she was married with Sam's dad, they don't get along that well now. Their relationship is very freezing and they only talk to each other when Sam's around. 
Because of all these characteristics I think she's the most likeable character in the novel. She's maybe not the best mother to Sam but who's perfect? She has her mistakes but Sam loves her and that is all that counts, isn't it?

There are also some very interesting scenes of Annie in the novel I would like to describe you more detailed.
In the first scene Annie talks with Sam about Alicia before Sam meets her the first time. He's very sceptic but Annie convinces him to give her a chance. She say things to him like a close friend would tell him.

"She'd just said that Alicia was hot, and it is different, isn't it?" (p. 21, ll.28-29)

Another interesting scene is the part when Sam tells his mom that Alicia's is pregnant with his child. First she doesn't say anything because she's totally shocked. I mean, didn't learn her son anything of her faults from having a child in this age? Her expressions change in the next few moments a lot. After being shocked she cries and thinks that Sam wanted to punish her. Then she thinks of Sam's destroyed future again and asks many questions. The scene ends with Annie asking if she could talk to her son in private.
I hope you can understand now why Annie's my favorite character. She's a lovely person and she mostely does the right thing in the end. After the first shock she gives Sam and Alicia her support and because she already experiented how it feels having a baby in that age , she can help them better than many other people.


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