Why Girls Commit Suicide Analysis
I found the climax of the story to be the most interesting and surprising part of the book.
The first reason is the way it was set up. It began with the boys making secret correspondence with the remaining four Lisbon sisters via telephone. This was significant as it was the first time they had any contact with the girls since the homecoming incident. I found it interesting that for two days rather than speak they were taking turns playing songs back and forth to convey their messages. The sisters’ selections gradually hinted more and more to the idea of having feelings for, and possibly loving, the boys for the first time. Yet they abruptly hung up after the song that had that clear message. Then the boys receive a message on a picture of …show more content…
Rather than each one happening individually with some context and reasoning around it, it all happened at once. They must have made some kind of an agreement with each other to do it together. That means this was a well-planned, thought through event, but there are still huge question marks for outside viewers. We do not know why they involved the boys that night. They were not needed to assist, or even to discover the dead girls as Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon would have come across them the next morning. There also was not any note or apparent clear-cut reasoning. It may have had something to do with Cecilia’s suicide, as they committed their own suicides on the one year anniversary of her first attempt. However, they seem to have been coping and getting better in the aftermath of that. Another possibility could have been the crushingly oppressive nature of Mrs. Lisbon. She has held them back from so many important milestones and events of adolescence. She has prohibited them from experimenting with clothes and make-up, from experiencing dating and romantic encounters, and from having active social lives. This only seemed to get worse after Cecilia’s death. However, in the end as a reader I don t fully understand their motive and even the neighborhood boys confess they do not know
The first reason is the way it was set up. It began with the boys making secret correspondence with the remaining four Lisbon sisters via telephone. This was significant as it was the first time they had any contact with the girls since the homecoming incident. I found it interesting that for two days rather than speak they were taking turns playing songs back and forth to convey their messages. The sisters’ selections gradually hinted more and more to the idea of having feelings for, and possibly loving, the boys for the first time. Yet they abruptly hung up after the song that had that clear message. Then the boys receive a message on a picture of …show more content…
Rather than each one happening individually with some context and reasoning around it, it all happened at once. They must have made some kind of an agreement with each other to do it together. That means this was a well-planned, thought through event, but there are still huge question marks for outside viewers. We do not know why they involved the boys that night. They were not needed to assist, or even to discover the dead girls as Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon would have come across them the next morning. There also was not any note or apparent clear-cut reasoning. It may have had something to do with Cecilia’s suicide, as they committed their own suicides on the one year anniversary of her first attempt. However, they seem to have been coping and getting better in the aftermath of that. Another possibility could have been the crushingly oppressive nature of Mrs. Lisbon. She has held them back from so many important milestones and events of adolescence. She has prohibited them from experimenting with clothes and make-up, from experiencing dating and romantic encounters, and from having active social lives. This only seemed to get worse after Cecilia’s death. However, in the end as a reader I don t fully understand their motive and even the neighborhood boys confess they do not know