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Author's Note: This is a character analysis on Isabelle from the book Perfect.  This piece is saying don’t judge a book by its cover, because sometimes words are much more powerful than actions.

We see a girl that has no father and lives with her  younger sister, April, and her mom. Isabelle is strong mentally, although she is weak physically, but she has enough strength to fight through life's down moments. What these two people do for themselves in the end was the best thing they could ever choose.

Isabelle is the main character in the book "Perfect," This story is about Isabelle and her sister dealing with bulimia. Isabelle is making herself throw up because she thinks of herself as over-weight, thinking this the best for herself, which it isn’t. She is hurting herself by messing up her eating habits.  Isabelle’s eating habits connect to the book “Skinny” because of a girl named Holly, where she is fighting  her weight and for her life. 

Holly is a girl that has anorexia,  but is also a very great athlete, however Isabelle is bulimic and not athletic.   It is easy to see they are in a way very similar because both of their dads have passed away. After both suffer this loss, they choose to change their chances of living a full life, by changing their eating habits in a bad way.

Isabelle finds the most popular girl, Ashley, in school in her group therapy class. They become the best of friends.  The coincidental thing is, they both are bulimic. Holly’s older sister Giselle is helping her with this problem, as Ashley is helping Isabelle.   I am glad that I don’t have any bad eating habits because I wouldn't want people laughing or making fun of me because of the way I felt with my body.

Toward the end of the book Isabelle has stopped her filthy habit and started eating right again.  But as for Ashley, she still continues to make herself vomit. Isabelle's therapy leader was able to help her change the way she looked at herself,  seeing that it does not matter what you look like. You should know that you are beautiful just the way you are.  Don’t let way others judge you affect who you are because only you know what your heart feels.  Be yourself, live the way you want to live, and not the way others want you to.