Analysis Of We Were Liars By E. Lockhart

The novel “We Were Liars,” by E. Lockhart continues with Cadence assigning herself a unique kind of project. She makes it a point to give away a personal item each day. She starts off by mailing a Barbie to Mirren and a striped scarf to Johnny as he is fond of that pattern. She continues gifting items each day to different people in different places. Cadence discusses her desire to be normal, and not have people always worried about her. She begins to have more vivid recollections of the night of her accident. She explains seeing “Mirren’s hand … holding a jug of gas for the motorboats… [and] Granddad holding on to a tree, his face lit by the glow of a bonfire” (Lockhart 49). Although she is beginning to remember images from that night, she