Nantucket Red Character Analysis

Summer, a time for the beach, partying, and having fun. But for some teenagers, it means getting a job. In the books Nantucket Blue and Nantucket Red, Cricket Thompson, a teenager from Providence entering her senior year, went all the way to Nantucket for a summer job with hopes to make some fun memories and leave her problems back at home. Hope is a goal or dream for Cricket in her future that is going to sometimes not be in reach, be within reach, or what is not ultimately right for her in the end. Nantucket, a small vacation island off of Cape Cod, was the place where Cricket hoped everything would be different and better. On the ferry ride to Nantucket Cricket could already realize that Nantucket was different but not necessarily in a bad way. Nantucket was very preppy compared to Providence, so Cricket hoped she could also be preppy by buying an expensive dress. Cricket had left her home in Providence to escape family issues. Between her mom drowning in her own sorrow and her father replacing her with a new family, Cricket hoped Nantucket would be the place
Well, for Cricket Thompson this dream came true, and she had this opportunity. Her parents, grandparents, and friends couldn't have been more proud of her for such a big accomplishment. She headed to Nantucket for the second summer in a row, but with so many activities to juggle between with in Nantucket, she didn’t have time for everything. Training and practicing for lacrosse over the course of the summer slowly diminished, and shortly after a couple bad choices were made which eventually led Cricket fighting to get back into Brown University. In the end, Cricket realized that even though going to Brown University to play lacrosse had been her dream since she was younger, it wasn’t what was right for her. She was much happier waiting a year to think about it and go work for George in New York City