In Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson, Sara Louise Bradshaw portrays the essence of the authors theme: you can't go anywhere in life until you know where it is you want to go. Sara is the "undesirable" twin who always has to follow in her precious sister Caroline's shadow. Sara Louise takes a long time to figure out what she wants to do in life because she is always looking at what her sister can do, rather than what she herself desires to do. Sara realizes the reason why nothing ever seems to progress in her life is because she never is sure of what she would like to do. Eventually Sara figures out what she wants to become in life and achieves that goal. Although Sara Louise Bradshaw is initially unassertive, she is able to figure out what she wants in life through her imaginative and...