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The maincharacter in “Dreamland” is Caitlin. Caitlin is sixteen years old and she is quite shy and lives in the shadow of her sister, Cass, who is very popular and likeable. Caitlin haven’t got many friends. The only person she socialize with is her best friend, Rina. In the beginning of the book Cass leave the family to run away with her boyfriend. Caitlin now gets a chance to take place, instead of her sister.

In the beginning Caitlin is a quite anonymous girl and people isn’t talking about her very much. People around her seem to like her, but she lives in the shadow of Cass. Her parents live in the impression of that she is fine and it seems like they don’t really know her very well. Her parent doesn’t even notice that she is being beaten and that she looses a lot of weight and gets depressed and so on.

In the beginning of the book, Caitlin starts with cheerleading, and that gives her a good reputation. But after that she ditches a football-guy to be with Rogerson, everything changes. The longer she is with Rogerson, the more practices she starts to skip, and soon after that the whole cheerleading-squad starts to talk shit about her. After this people haven’t got very good things to say about her, and she gets bad reputation. I think people starts talking about her because they doesn’t know exactly what is happening with her and they doesn’t know why she suddenly never shows up on practices. When they get annoyed by that fact they start to give her bad reputation.

Caitlin treats the other people in the novel in a good way. She almost never gets mad, but she stops being with her friends to be with Rogerson. She never expresses her anger about always being a standby for her sister, out loud. Instead she let herself become a smoker and a drug addict.

Caitlin changes a lot during the book. She starts a relationship with Rogerson, and she starts taking drugs and starts smoking, and she also start with cheerleading (witch she actually hates) to test something new and to make her mother happy. She feels like she never is good enough, and never could be as good as her sister. During the book , Caitlin also become a really good liar. She is lying to everyone around her. She lies about that she is fine, that she is feeling good and that nothing special is going on. 

/Mikaela