{"id":16757,"date":"2025-10-21T19:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=16757"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:54:28","slug":"irje-2-its-not-summer-without-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/irje-2-its-not-summer-without-you\/","title":{"rendered":"IRJE #2 \u2013 It\u2019s Not Summer Without You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"719\">I&#8217;m still reading <em data-start=\"239\" data-end=\"268\">It\u2019s Not Summer Without You<\/em> by Jenny Han. Belly struggles with her feelings for Conrad and Jeremiah while learning that grief and love can exist at the same time. The book shows how friendship can become complicated when emotions grow stronger. Han presents Belly as a girl who wants to hold on to the happy summers from her childhood but begins to realize that everything is changing. One passage that shows this tension happens when Belly finally speaks honestly to Conrad:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"721\" data-end=\"969\">\n<p data-start=\"723\" data-end=\"969\">\u201cI will never look at you in the same way ever again. I&#8217;ll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway. I\u2019m not her anymore, and you can\u2019t expect me to be\u201d (Han, p. 273).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"971\" data-end=\"1359\">This passage is important because it shows Belly\u2019s emotional growth. She understands that love should not mean losing herself or waiting for someone who does not treat her well. The quotation also reveals how her relationships with Conrad and Jeremiah are changing. Belly is no longer just the little sister; she is becoming her own person, ready to move forward and let go of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still reading It\u2019s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han. Belly struggles with her feelings for Conrad and Jeremiah while learning that grief and love can exist at the same time. The book shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16759,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16757\/revisions\/16759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}