By looking at a person's life, another can most likely tell that that person is pleased with his/her life. If we look at people in the past, the same holds to be true. Ask any person that you would see on the street. Most likely they enjoyed what they have done with their lives. Kids, teens, adults and senior citizens wouldn't regret they things they have done to get them where they stand today. What about the people who are fictional? As I read certain books, I try to find if a character wants to change what they have done in the past to improve their future. "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water" stood out because no one wanted to change. As I slowly read farther into the book, one character wanted to change her life but changed her mind. The youngest character. Rayona, tells fifteen years of life being with her family, new friends and being of a different race than most she met. Rayona is an intelligent, young woman who matures in the problems she faces. Rayona is a quiet woman who shows mature strengths, gains respect and shows love to things that she comes she contacted with. First, Rayona matures mentally and emotionally. .
Rayona is a person who grows the quickest in the book. Her mother has taught her well. As the book opens, Ray was in the hospital with Christine. She wanted to leave her mom but her mom taught her that leaving would be rude. From the beginning, Ray is level headed. Her personality in the beginning was immature but as the book progressed, her personality became even better. Also in the opening, Ray avoided talking to her father, mother, and Fathers Tom and Hurlburt. She would tell them general things about her then leave them in silence. But as she got to know others, such as Sky, Evelyn, and eventually her mother, she talked things out to help her grow. Ray began as a caterpillar but she grew to a butterfly. When Ray rescued Father Tom from the water, she surprised me.