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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?
Yes I do think this statement that most teens struggle with something is very true. Today in our society we see many people that are depressed, that are being bullied, that have family issues back at home or even simple issues with their friends. We also see people that abuse drugs and alcohol to deal with these issues, people also self harm themselves and it could even be something that we would never think would do that. So therefore I think teens do struggle with something now a days because of what our society has developed into.
ReplyDeleteI think this statement is true because there is so many issues that teenagers will struggle with such as bullying, drugs alcohal, getting good enough grades and having friends. Everyday atleast one teenager will talk about something that is bugging them or that they are having trouble with. Nowadays there is always a person struggling in our society weather we see it or not.
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