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Symbols In Whisper To Me
Whisper To Me
Well to say this book will take you on a emotional rollercoaster is just inacerate it is more like an emotional ferris wheel which can be just as scary to ride.Welcome to the companion book of Whisper To Me where I will be at the thlooking oughts of Cassandra and you, the reader will be reading the thoughts that I have to say about this book.You will be seeing different meaningful symbols from the book, deeper meaning to the events and thoughts that happened. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” Said by Dr.Seuss, mental illness, losing your mother and friends, hearing a voice telling you to hurt yourself, hunting down a mass murderer, summer love, heartbreak, losing yourself, and having a curse.The
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Cassie hates herself for that and I think that is causing the voice so she can suffer like her mother had.
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In the book Whisper To Me Cassie is not social and secludes herself so she doesn’t know how to express herself.Cassie uses different colors to describe people and something that they stand for.To Cassie emotions are associated with colors.I think that Nick Lake used the common conception that moods are associated with colors to represent Cassie as something that changes moods with each person and to represent each person as a assigned color that shows how she feels with them. This is actually a common technique found in books.It is impossible to show how each person who reads the book acts when feeling a certain emotion so instead the author will describe a color or other sense and make the reader think that there is a certain way that the character is feeling.But really what is happening is you are looking at the color as the way that you would act when the color represents a emotion and therefore understand how Cassie or other characters feel in the situation without it being described to

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