The novel starts off by stating that one of the main characters is dead. The first page of the novel starts by saying “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” After the middle child Lydia disappears and is discovered dead at the bottom of a lake, the Lees will have to revisit painful memories that have contributed to extremely tense and fragile family. Through shifting perspectives and shifts in time, Everything I Never Told You explores the danger in silence and repression and the effects of never voicing how you really feel. Sigmund Freud’s mentions the conscious mind which is being aware and having control thoughts, and pre-conscious mind which is having the ability to recall thoughts and feeling without the sense of repression. He also mentions how the mind is like an iceberg. His theory of consciousness suggested an iceberg diagram– the tip of the iceberg that we see is the conscious mind, with the massive chunk of ice underwater that we couldn’t see from above, the unconscious mind. The tip of the iceberg consists of the Ego and the super-ego. Below the iceberg we see the unconscious mind consist of the Id and with a
The novel starts off by stating that one of the main characters is dead. The first page of the novel starts by saying “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” After the middle child Lydia disappears and is discovered dead at the bottom of a lake, the Lees will have to revisit painful memories that have contributed to extremely tense and fragile family. Through shifting perspectives and shifts in time, Everything I Never Told You explores the danger in silence and repression and the effects of never voicing how you really feel. Sigmund Freud’s mentions the conscious mind which is being aware and having control thoughts, and pre-conscious mind which is having the ability to recall thoughts and feeling without the sense of repression. He also mentions how the mind is like an iceberg. His theory of consciousness suggested an iceberg diagram– the tip of the iceberg that we see is the conscious mind, with the massive chunk of ice underwater that we couldn’t see from above, the unconscious mind. The tip of the iceberg consists of the Ego and the super-ego. Below the iceberg we see the unconscious mind consist of the Id and with a