The major conflict of Wintergirls  is based around Lia and her eating disorder. Throughout the book I've learned that Lia has struggled with her eating disorder for years and after Cassie's death Lia slowly slipped back to her old habits which caused relationships between her family to slowly disappear. Her struggle to allow herself to eat food without thinking about how many calories she will put into her body made her over think eating in general until her parents started to notice. Closer to the end of the book Lia is pushed to the breaking point and starts to cut herself  after being hospitalized  Lia realizes that she is wanting to change her first step started when her parents got her into a rehab facility for people with eating disorders called New Seasons.  Jennifer her step mother tells Lia that she will not be able to her sister Emma until she gets help, this struck something inside her to  want  to over come her fear in being healthy and getting her to understand what her fears are and how to overcome them. She starts changing her attitude and mood toward her family and how to communicate to them. Getting Lia to finally admit that she has a serious problem was difficult for her to admit to herself and others. While in treatment she starts to realize that no matter what her weight is she will never be happy if she reached one weight goal she would want something lower. Lia realizes that there is no magic cure, no making it go away. There are only small steps upward.

If you had a friend that suffered from a eating disorder and you saw them struggling what would you do to help that person understand how it is affecting them emotionally and physically?

Blog #2

Lia is a very dis functional character in Wintergirls, Lia is forced to make  decisions when it came to Cassie. The night of her death Cassie called and left voice mails on her phone but Lia made a personal choice not to answer her because they were no longer friends now she has to live with the fact she will never be able to see why she needed to talk to her so badly that specific night leaving voice mails saying she needed her help and saying she was sorry she is now left with guilt. Lia is still continuing to struggle with her eating disorder wanting to eat but constantly thinking about how many calories she putting in her body and her dis functional family adds to her problems. Now she must learn how to forgive herself for not being that person  everyone wanted her to be and regretting not living up to her potential.

If you were put into Lia's situation with all the built up guilt and not being able to talk to your parents who would you go to talk about your problems and moving past everything that had happened and all the faults you have made?

Blog #1

Wintergirls is about a 17 year old girl named Lia who is currently dealing with the unraveling of her life. The death of her  friend Cassie that  the book opens with, starts with Lia  having a tough time dealing with the news of  her death and having to deal with the pressure of  being a good role model to her youngest step sister Emma. Lia and Cassie have both gone through eating disorders in the past to become the skinniest girls in school. This book follows Lia as she struggles to cope with Cassie's death allowing Anorexia to  reenter into her life which causes her to become overwhelmed with the guilt of not answering Cassie's thirty three calls the night she died in the motel room and now having to deal with her hallucinations of Cassie's ghost haunting her has made things worst.

In Wintergirls, Lia is struggling with multiple things such as the haunting of Cassie and the guilt she has for not answering any of her phone calls the night she died in the hotel room. In the newspaper about Cassie's death, the superintendent of schools say "Most teens today struggle with something." Do you believe that to be true or false?