Rainbow Rowell’s YA novel Eleanor & Park (2012) demonstrates how two people from different worlds can fall in love with each other. This book is an unconventional love story. A girl named Eleanor with a hard family and social life and a weird sense of style. A boy named Park wanting to be more, wanting approval for who he is. The two teens are dealing with young love, family issues, identity, and acceptance. Even though they are both outsiders they find a way to love each other through all the issues and people against the relationship. Just as high as one might feel at the tip of that love, the lows can be devastatingly painful when it is time to let go of that loved one.

Eleanor and Park both comes from very different families. Eleanor's father left her, leaving her to practically raise herself. She forced to move into a tiny shack of a house as her mother remarries. They have so little money that toothbrushes have become …show more content…
They both struggled with their identity and fitting in. “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”(162) The way she dressed was all she could afford and it made it harder for her to fit in with Parks family. “Today the girl was wearing a giant man's shirt with seashells all over it. The collar must have been really big, like disco-big, because she'd cut it, and it was fraying. She had a man's necktie wrapped around her ponytail like a big polyester ribbon. She looked ridiculous.”(168) Park did not care how she dressed he actually started to like it, Park accepted Eleanor for who she was. She also needed society to accept her to help her transition into adulthood but they didn't, they bullied her instead. Park stood up for her thought it all, making her stronger and more confident in moving through life. Eleanor would protect him too if she had the chance. They moved through their problems