Are you There God? Its me, Margaret

Literary Blog

By Keely #26

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret written by Judy Blume and is 149 pages long is filled with drama, maturity, and the search for religion. The main characters in the story are Margaret, Nancy, and Grandma, Sylvia. The problem in the story is that Margaret’s parents are both different religions, Jewish and Christian. They are married and happy but Margaret doesn’t now what religion to choose. Between that and becoming a woman are a lot to think about. But Margaret has a secret that nobody knows which is that she talks to God anyway. In the end, Margaret just doesn’t have a religion, which is perfectly fine with her, her family, and friends. The main conflict in Are you There God? It’s me Margaret was character vs. society. Margaret wants to mature and develop faster than the rate she is. She wants to be like her friends. Which in this case is society.

In the book Are you there God? It’s me Margaret, the main conflict is character vs. society because Margaret wants to choose her own religion between Jewish and Christianity and wants her body to mature faster than it is. Her family’s choice of what her religion should be affects which religion she ultimately chooses to practice. Margaret’s friends sometimes think she is wimpy and immature. So Margaret wants to be like them, like a woman. She once exaggerated her appearance to look like a mature young woman. She did this mostly because of her friend’s thoughts and opinions about her and what boys will think. The moral of the story is basically just to be patient with your body and to not care what other people think. Be independent. Be yourself. Yes, I would recommend this book, but only to the more mature group of people and preferably girls. It’s a great novel and very realistic.