FriendshipĪt the end of the book, Harriet realizes how important her friendship with Sport and Janie is to her, even though she had previously attempted to convince herself that it did not matter.
Once her friends discover her journal, she is further isolated, as they all turn against her and the journal is her only confidante that remains. This is partly because her parents are not very involved in her life, and partly because she is observing everyone around her in order to write about them, which puts her in the position of being on the outside looking in. This book sends an important message that life looks drastically different for different kinds of people, and it is important to expose oneself to all kinds of different ways of living in order to avoid ignorance and gain good judgment and sympathetic understanding of others.
Waldenstein has renounced all his material wealth to be a delivery man. Golly is content to live alone and uneducated, and Mr. She herself comes from a wealthy, comfortable family, while her friend Sport has to take on a lot of adult responsibilities and work harder to make ends meets because of his father's negligence.
On her spy route and in her everyday life, Harriet encounters all kinds of people who live in very different ways. Having her notebook stolen challenges Harriet in many ways, but more importantly, it gives her the chance to prove that she has grown up into a responsible and thoughtful young lady. Harriet grows and matures over the course of her story, learning important lessons about kindness and humility and figuring out how to solve her own problems without the comforting presence of her beloved Ole Golly. Like many children's novels, this book is a bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel.
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