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?