In this blog post, I will be discussing the relationship and identity of Sunny Lewin, the main character in the book Sunny Side Up by Jennifer & Matthew Holm. As this story went along, she developed several important relationships between her family and her trip to Florida that have shaped her identity and defined who she is. Please see the Draw My Life video for more details. Oh by the way, the book was so easy to read along since it’s a graphic novel, which has so many pictures with less words!
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- Draw My Life Video about Sunny Lewin
2. Graphic Novel TIEA
Sunny, the main character in Sunny Side Up by Jennifer and Matthew Holm, had the biggest relationship with Buzz, a guy who’s obsessed with comic books, who she had great adventures with him and also became a comic book fan. While Sunny’s staying with her grandfather in Pine Palms, they two hung out, bought and read many comic books, and enjoyed their adventures which they used their imaginations to imitate comic book characters. “Yeah, we’re heros!” “Which one are you?” “I call Batman.” (119) Since there’s no kids living in Pine Palms, they two became best friends. Throughout the book, they went to the golf course collecting golf balls and sell them, bought comic books and read them together, found missing cats that residents belong, and at the very end, they 2 went to Disneyland together with Sunny’s grandfather, the Girls, and a cameraman! Before leaving Florida, Buzz even gave Sunny some comic books for her to read along the trip back home! They 2 sure became best friends when Sunny was in Florida living with her grandfather, and became a comic fan mania just like Buzz is, and even brought some comic books back home.
Citation: Holm, Jennifer L, and Matthew Holm. Sunny Side Up. 1st ed., Graphix. Scholastic Inc. 2015.
3. Graphic Novel Illustrator TIEA
The illustrations on p. 126~127 in Sunny Side Up by Jennifer and Matthew Holm adds her family’s disguise to her big brother Dale to the novel, as Sunny just stopped a nearly-broken-out quarrel between him and his parents. Before this happened, Dale just went home after hanging out with his friend; looking drunk, his father scolded him to stop this behavior right now and straighten up himself. Sunny had just stopped a quarrel between her dad and and Dale with a conversation about her research project about the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius; plus Dale later told his mom that the dinner is good, ending the quarrel. (126~127) The scenario was one of the reasons why Sunny and her family hates Dale so much. He likes to hang out with friends of his own, which none of them is good. His dads told him to stop whether he has to do with his disastrous friends and straighten up himself, but he just can’t get rid of them. That’s why he’s a troublemaker in his family. The readers can be impacted with the thoughts of being a troublemaker: nobody wants to get in touch with or help you, and you don’t want to change your current behavior. Being a troublemaker is no good to yourself and the others surrounding you. Troublemakers can have a higher rate of committing crimes, too.
Citation: Holm, Jennifer L, and Matthew Holm. Sunny Side Up. 1st ed., Graphix. Scholastic Inc. 2015.
4. Discussion Documents