The issues focused on throughout perfect are body Image, identity and discovering who you are as well as rape and a little bit of suicide(Connor). With all these main characters being associated with each other in some way we see Ellen Hopkins revealing major societal issues through these characters. It takes place during the same time frame as Impulse, but centers around Connors’s twin sister Cara as well as people that went to school with Connor including his Ex girlfriend Kendra and Cara’s Boy friend Sean as well as Andre who during Perfect starts Dating Kendra’s sister Jenna. And Andre realizes that to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he’ll be living a life his ancestors would never understand.Įveryone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go? What would you give up to be perfect? To score his perfect home run-on the field and off-Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back.

Kendra covets the perfect face and body-no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there.

For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there.Ĭara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. And Andre realizes that to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he'll be living a life his ancestors would never understand.Ī riveting and startling companion to the bestselling Impulse, Ellen Hopkins's Perfect exposes the harsh truths about what it takes to grow up and grow into our own skins, our own selves.Other Books by Ellen Hopkins: Impulse, Burned, Smoke, Identical, rumbleĮveryone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. For four high school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there.Ĭara's parents' unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. What would you give up to be perfect? Four teens find out in the New York Times bestselling companion to Impulse.Įveryone has something, someone, somewhere else that they'd rather be.

Perfect by ellen hopkins