Every person describes loneliness differently. To me, loneliness is having no one who understands you, no one who agrees with you. It does not have to be precisely being placed alone or isolated from a group of people. Loneliness can also be described as knowing there is someone who you trust enough to share secrets with but you cannot see or talk to that person.
             In the series of books Fearless, Gaia was abandoned by her father the night of her mother's death. In this event she was tossed into a foster family's care. Her foster-mother, Ella, worked for Gaia's uncle, the one person whose hands Gaia cannot fall under the influence of. At one time she had made a friend that she was at ease to talk to and tell her things. Mary ended up getting murdered by one of Oliver's, Gaia's uncle, henchmen. Gaia was once again left alone. Later in the story she finds that she cannot trust even her only friend, Ed, who seems to do nothing but lie to her anyway. Her boyfriend, Sam, ends up losing her trust also when she found out that he was working for her uncle. She told him that nothing matters in the end, and continued saying, "We have to start over. Alone. Apart. It's the only way."
             Whenever I was in junior high, my friend and I got into a fight. I remember that everyone took her side and left me with myself. I had no one that stood up for me, no one to vent my frustration and anger with. I was always getting into fights during this time because everyone despised me. In this form of loneliness there is no one to turn to or to talk to, as if being left alone without a friend.
             The book, Breaking Rank, is about a boy named Thomas (Baby) who grew up in the Clan. This group was nothing that Baby wanted to be. He wanted to learn anything and everything in which would help him to grow in education. In the Clan your life was pre-designated and he was unhappy by this fact. Loneliness also fits in here because he could not connect w
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