In the book to all the boys I've loved before by Jenny Han, it tells the stories of the main character, Laura Jean, and all the boys she's ever loved. Every time she loves someone she writes a letter to him confessing her love, she "Writes like he will never read it. Because he never will." (like the blurb states.) Laura Jean keeps all of her love notes in a little hat box of her mums. Laura has 2 sisters and her dad, her mum had passed away when they were a little bit younger. Reading this story I realized that something was holding their family back on being somewhat happy and letting Margot go to college.
While I was reading this book recently I was wondering who blocks justice. In the story Margot, Lauras older sister, and her are talking about their mum. Before she passed away their mother had told Margot, Laura Jean and Kitty to stay together no matter what, "song girls forever." I think that the three of them took that to mean don't let anything change and never stray apart even the slightest. I believe this because in the book Margot is leaving for college and it is really upsetting Kitty and Laura Jean, obviously more than it should. So I think the way the three sisters perceived their mothers loving message is what is blocking justice because it is keeping them from moving on. The mother wanted them to stay close sisters but she didn't mean don't grow up and move on.
In conclusion I think Laura Jean, Margot and Kitty are the ones who are blocking the justice from themselves because they misunderstood what their mother had told them. What their mother had said was very important to them now that she isn't with them so they take it, understandably, seriously. 
This blog post is different from the other books as in most books there is a clear cut antagonist but in this book the antagonist are their own barriers that they set for themselves, this is an interesting book that i might read in the near future :)
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