Also in the remove class, they weren't allowed to play games so Nicola's enthusiasm for sports didn't threaten the amount of time or attention she was able to spend on Tim. Whereas by End of Term, although Nicola didn't get on the team, she was becoming the sort of keen sporty type that Tim instinctively didn't like. The way girls' friendships in the AF books can fluctuate, and even completely reverse on occasion is only too realistic.Ginty swinging from Unity back to Monica is another example. Realising Tim had gone off her is such a painful but well written stage in Nicola's character development, along with some of Rowan's comments, and patrick's defection to Ginty. I think we, the reader like her more for going through these moments of realisation, rather than being the archetypal popular heroine of school stories.
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Date: 2009-10-08 10:06 pm (UTC)The way girls' friendships in the AF books can fluctuate, and even completely reverse on occasion is only too realistic.Ginty swinging from Unity back to Monica is another example.
Realising Tim had gone off her is such a painful but well written stage in Nicola's character development, along with some of Rowan's comments, and patrick's defection to Ginty. I think we, the reader like her more for going through these moments of realisation, rather than being the archetypal popular heroine of school stories.