It's only still the beginning of the book but I'm already starting to make connections between TBL and Breaking Night. They're more differences than similarities. Liz and Toby's situations are different, but similar in the way both lacked a stable home life and family. Liz didn't act out the way Toby has in the book so far (she did but that wasn't until she was a teen). Liz wanted to do good for herself, she wanted to go places, but most of all she wanted her parents affection. Toby? He wants to be a boy. He wants to talk about girls, hang out with friends, shoot guns, egg cars, make people mad, and not even care most of the time. He doesn't want to show love or affection, he wants to be feared and in control.
It just goes to show that no matter what situation you're in it's how you handle yourself that makes the difference. Scientifically, girls brains are 2/3 years ahead of boys (about - not in all cases - boys brains stop growing at 29 and girls around 24/25). But overall I've just been making connections like these - maturity, adaptation of situations - between the two books. Toby hasn't had good examples of men in his life, hasn't had a stable home, isn't educated enough to understand simple things (that are truly common sense - like: don't egg people's cars). But it is also just apart of being a boy, a pre-teen, the whole rebelliousness of it. No one is exactly alike, I'm not trying to generalize genders, this just something I've noticed - similar situations but two different maturity levels.
I noticed the same thing, but did not think about the boy vs girl type thing or even the full idea of maturity. I like how how you added in the facts.
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