I identify with; Lilly is kind hearted and listens, she has some problems in her life but knows how to keep them together for the most part. He helped James a lot in this story of his life. Lilly had her hard times, being a drug addict herself caused her a lot of pain but she still managed to find someone and was able to help him even though her life wasn't going as she hoped. I don't identify with her because I'm an addict, or because I was one. I identify with her, because no matter how hard my life gets, no matter what God puts in my way, I can still put it all aside and forget about my problems for just a few seconds to make a difference in someone else's life. I discovered that she was incredibly courageous, until the end she didn't say why but she said that she had committed suicide by hanging herself a few days after her grandmother's death, in the book you could see that she was very close to her. It showed that she was so close to family, and so am I. My family means a lot to me, and when things happen to them I can manage to get out of bed for the next few days. She was incredibly in love with James, she sees past all his flaws and knows he's just as real as people get. Full of flaws and problems, but somehow it's perfect. That said, I look at my relationship the same way, he may have his flaws but I know he is the most perfect man for me. Page 152-155 in the book, James is walking on a path and starts thinking about his life and gets so angry that he starts tearing a small pine tree apart. He says he hears a voice behind him but he doesn't care, and then when he's almost demolished the tree he turns to the voice, and it's Lilly, and she hugs him and tells him it's okay, and she holds him tight and lets cry. This reminded me of the Psychology section we studied recently “Stress, Health, and Coping (Chapter 13).” First it reminded me of chapter 13 because he obviously suffers from some sort of PTSD, caused by his addictions and living in complete poverty and basically thinking that his parents didn't care about him as a child.