While Kennedy and Jude get closer, Kennedy talks about her mother often. Brit Bennett's novel reveals, "She always mentioned her mother suddenly, like when she told Jude before a show that she had first starting acting when she was eleven" (Bennett 238). Kenedy mentioning her mother all the time reveals her relationship with her mother.
What can't Kennedy do?
As Kennedy talks about her childhood, she explained how she was in many activities that didn't stick for her. In the novel, she explains, "So she'd taken tennis lessons and ballet classes...She was horribly mediocre. Her mother was embarrassed" (Bennett 238). Kennedy's previous activities show what she could not do, and why acting stood out to her the most.
What does Kennedy think about?
Kennedy often thinks about the past of her mother and understanding what she would not tell her. In The Vanishing Half, it reveals, "Later, Kennedy would realize how often her mother used money to avoid discussing her past, as if poverty were so unthinkable to Kennedy that it could explain everything..." (Bennett 268). Since Stella did not tell Kennedy about her past, she often thought about filling in the pieces.