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The novel I chose to read was called “Perfect Match” by Jodi Picoult. This novel is briefly about a female character named Nina Frost who is found in a courtroom who unexplainably shoots the defendant four times as he approaches his defence attorney. Nina and the defendant being the priest at the time of trial (and shooting) has been led to believe that Father Szyszynski had sexually abused her five year-old son Nathaniel after lab tests had confirmed his semen was found in the child’s underpants, and Nathaniel had verbally accused Father “ Glen “ Szyszynski of molesting him. It later turned out that Nina in fact killed the wrong man, and a visiting priest named Father Gwynne had molested Nathaniel. Fathers Gwynne and Szyszynski shared the same DNA because the latter had a bone marrow transplant from the former, therefore leading to the belief that the semen belonged to Szyszynski. Although this fact was made known at Nina’s own court trial for murder, after the jury could not reach a verdict, the judge ruled that her reasons were justified and therefore she was found not guilty of murder. In the final twist at the end, Nina’s best friend and colleague Patrick Ducharme (whom she had an affair with throughout the duration of her trial when she had briefly split up with husband Caleb) moves away, and Nina discovers that Caleb had poisoned Father Gwynne, despite his earlier protests to her killing Father Szyszynski.

As a reader and critic of the novel I felt this book was very intriguing simply because there was always something happening in the novel there was never a dull moment, once something happened it was inevitable that something bigger and unexpected was sure to follow.

While reading Perfect Match I came across many theories which could have been related to the ones learned in class. One of which I thought the novel dealt with a great amount was the symbolic interactionism theory. This theory is a psychological theory that...