Since the last time I read a lot of events has happened. I ended my last blog off with Gaby just beginning to start her project. From then to now I have finished the book, and I can say that from what I read Gaby went through a lot and put so much effort into her project. Before she started her project she made sure that she had a doctor to tell her how many months/weeks she should be and the kind of side effects she should be having. Her doctor was very corporative and told her everything she needed to know about being pregnant. Then she got help from a women who works with teens moms and helps them out. Gaby volunteered to help other young teens get through their pregnancy because she wanted to relate to them and the way they felt during their pregnancy to make it feel more realistic. Once her everyone started finding she was "pregnant" everyone started to turn on her. The only friend Gaby told about her project to was her best friend, Saida because she needed someone to write down things that people would say behind her back. In the text it said that people said things about Gaby like "She isn't even taking her pregnancy seriously. She needs to take responsibility and grow up."
"She's so dumb. Doesn't she know she just ruined her life? "I think her boyfriend will bail, and then she'll see what a big mistake she made." From everything that people were saying about her she still managed to keep her head up and she had the support from her best friend, boyfriend, and mother. After everything Gaby heard that people said about her she used that as a purpose to keep going with her project and in the end it showed so many girls that no matter what people said about them it shouldn't have to change who they are. This book is an inspiration to many teens girls/mothers because it proves that just because people may see you different it does not mean you have to see yourself that way.
In the book The Pregnancy Project there was many conflicts that the main character, Gaby had to go through in order to get through her project successfully. The main conflict I would have to say she went through the most would be Man vs. Society, the main reason I would have to say this is because ever since Gaby was born her family had a history of getting pregnant or someone pregnant at a young age. Ever since she turned 14 years old she has been told she would be a teen mom because she was so close in age as her sister Jessica who was only 15 when she had her first child. All her siblings told her she would make the same mistake they did because they thought she wasn't strong enough to handle the pressure with a guy that is older than her, like her boyfriend is. Once they found out Gaby was "pregnant" they all said I told you so. Through out the book so many people talked about how they saw it coming, and how it wasn't a surprise considering her families past. Even though Gaby knew the rumors were all lies because she wasn't really pregnant it still hurt to know that even though she has gotten so far in school they still thought she would make the "mistake" and get pregnant. She fights through out this book vs. Society because she knows that in the end everyone will see how wrong they were about Gaby. So, if you enjoy reading about Man vs. Society then you should read the Pregnancy Project to find out how Gaby gets through all the rumors about her.
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