Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Grew Up... in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is half-Korean and half-white.
Living... in Charlottesville, Virginia. Lara is extremely close to her father and her sisters, Margot and Kitty. Kitty is actually the one who sends off Lara's letters written to all the boys she's had a crush on before.
Profession... high school student. Lara Jean is nice, shy, and a bit "quirky," as described by her love interest, Peter Kavinsky. She's also prone to falling in love easily.
Interests... scrapbooking, vintage fashion, baking, and drinking Yakult in the mornings.
Relationship Status... complicated. She has feelings for Josh, her sister's ex-boyfriend. However, she enters a fake relationship with jock extraordinaire, Peter Kavinsky, in order to convince Josh that she has no romantic feelings towards him.
Challenge... discovering what love, family, and friendship means. Her "fake" relationship with Peter is getting more and more complicated. Peter's ex-girlfriend is also Laura's ex-best friend, which lends another dimension to her trials and tribulations.
Personality... a shy and dreamy girl. Instead of confessing to her crushes, she chooses to write about her feelings in love letters that she keeps hidden at home. She's a bit goofy and awkward, as evidenced by when she impulsively kisses Peter on the track field when Josh approaches her about the love letter that was sent to him. She then flails and runs away.
Get to Know her in...
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Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.
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What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them?all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren't love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she's written. One for every boy she's ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control.
