Currently in the book that I am reading that is called "Half A Chance" by Cynthia Lord, Lucy and her family have to constantly keep moving from place to place because her dad is a famous photographer. She also has an interest in photography. So, they move to an old house by a lake in New Hampshire. While they are there Lucy discovers that her dad is judging a photo contest, so she decides to enter anonymously. She wants to find out if her photos are really special through her dad's eyes. As she tries finding subjects about what to take pictures of she finds beauty in a picture she took of Nate's grandmother. Nate; the boy who lives next door. But slowly the picture reveals something to Nate that he doesn't find comfort in seeing about it. His grandmother has dementia, which is a mental disorder and is slowly taking over her. Nate feels uncomfortable from this because Lucy might use it for the photo contest, and it might be Nate's grandmothers last summer.
An again and again moment that is always happening in the book is that Nate is constantly telling Lucy not to use his grandmothers portrait for the photo contest. He really doesn't want Lucy to use the photo because every time that they're talking about it he ignore all the reasons that Lucy is giving him, about why she should be able to use the picture. Nate doesn't want Lucy to use the photo because his grandmother has a mental illness. He sees that her illness is visible through the photo, and since she's already getting old also it might be her last summer and he doesn't like the thought of that. I think that probably he thinks people will also judge his grandmother because she has an illness.
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