This Song Will Save Your Life Analysis

Abdulaziz Khan Prompt 2

In the book, “This Song Will Save Your Life” by Leila Sales, Elise Dembowski is going a troubling time in her life. She’s at that delicate stage of life where even a small problem could set her off. When the girls at her lunch table tell her to clean up their trash, which is a normal thing they do with each other, Elise decides that enough is enough, and resorts to suicide. She stops after cutting three times and that’s the end of it. About seven months later, she sneaks out on her nightly midnight walks, but this one time two other girls notice her. They call her over. Elise comes to them. And that’s how she discovers the underground music club called Start. Music is Elise’s passion, it’s where she feels
She feels social. She feels many things that we take for granted. Everyone in the club goes wild when she gets the right song, and that’s when Elise starts practising at home. Eventually Char let’s her perform as a guest DJ every Thursday night and that’s when she practises much more than before. The only place she felt accepted was here. As time progresses on, Char and Elise develop a liking for each other, share a kiss, but like always, Char returns to the girl he liked before, Pippa. Things again start to fall apart for our main character. She becomes enraged and one night, rips Alex’s poetry castle to shreds. When her parents find out, they are in disbelief, calling all the punishments on her that they could think of. Elise was grounded, and forced to go back to her father’s home for the time being. But she still had her own party at Start to DJ at. But that’s when her father finds her, and like any other parent, he’s extremely furious. After having a conversation with her parents, Elise comes back to her somewhat okay life. Her classmates were curious and she gets their attention with this. It’s not everyday that one of your classmates is a DJ. Things return to normal and Elise returns to