Just Listen Themes

There are so many times in Just Listen when Annabel has a hard time getting the right words out. When she hurts Clarke's feelings as a kid, she has a difficult time apologizing and explaining herse...

At one point in Just Listen, a teenage girl says, "You can't trust anyone." This is a fitting statement because in this book many of the characters feel that they have been deeply betrayed by those...

Just Listen certainly isn't a story about the Brady Bunch. Although the Greene family may look pretty perfect from outside their beautiful glass house, there's a lot of turmoil brewing inside. Anna...

If you asked Annabel Greene, she'd definitely tell you that one is the loneliest number. At the beginning of Just Listen she's experiencing what may be the loneliest time of her life—her home lif...

In Just Listen, Owen Armstrong truly believes that honesty is the best policy. Maybe it's because it's been drilled into him in his anger management classes, but he takes it to heart and convinces...

There are parts of Just Listen that are as bleak and tear-filled as a Nicholas Sparks novel or a Shakespearean tragedy. Annabel's life when the novel opens up is certainly no cake walk; she's deali...

Even without the horrific rape and the falling out with Sophie, Annabel would be at a difficult juncture in her life in Just Listen. After all she's a teenager and undergoing a lot of change—she...

There are some seriously not-so-good memories surfacing as we make our way through Just Listen. For most of the book we don't know exactly what happened to Annabel, but we know that it haunts her....

At the beginning of Just Listen, Annabel's reputation is pretty much shot thanks to Sophie's cruel gossip mongering and bullying. Word has spread that she's the kind of girl who sleeps with her bes...

In Just Listen, the characters come to know themselves and take a great deal of comfort in art. Owen is music-obsessive and finds his true form of expression through the radio station where he has...