Wintergirls: A Journey into a Disordered Mind Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls artistically tells a story exposing the mentality of eighteen-year-old Lia struggling with the death of her bulimic friend Cassie and her own anorexia. Lia strives to learn the circumstances of Cassie’s death‚ only knowing that she was found dead in a motel room. Lia seems healthier yet grows worse as Cassie’s ghost frequently appears to her. Anderson’s fictional story reveals the true mindset of a disordered girl
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that she is just a huge disappointment and that her parents would have been divorced if she had not born” (Anderson 70). When she gets to school she finds all of these “clans that everyone is in like the Jocks‚ Country Clubbers‚ Idiot Savants‚ Cheerleaders‚ Human Waste‚ Eurotrash‚ Future Fascists of American‚ Big Hair Chix‚ the Marthas‚ Suffering Artists‚ Thespians‚ Goths‚ and Shredders” (Anderson 4). She says she is an Outcast and that there are no points for looking at her ex-friends since the whole
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The Impossible Knife of Memory- Laurie Halse Anderson Hailey Kincain has just moved back to her hometown for senior year‚ and she has to assimilate to her new high school life. Her father‚ Andy‚ is a war veteran and has memories of his past that haunts him daily. But what happens when someone that you’ve been trying to forget is edging back into your life? “The Impossible Knife of Memory” is a contemporary novel in a town setting. Hailey and Andy have just moved back into their hometown‚ after
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Core I Essay: Literacy Narrative Megan Smith ENC Valencia Students Prof. Phillips ENC 1102 02/16/15 My Love for Reading The first books I ever started reading were Winnie the Pooh and Dr Suess books. When I was young my parents were really good about getting me started with reading different books and for a long time I loved reading‚ as long as it was books I got to choose and enjoyed reading myself. Once I got further along in school and they started mandating what books we had to read I got
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adversities‚ the natural way of a human to respond to them are to fix them or just try to move on‚ but in some novels characters have to go through the worst of them‚ so let’s talk about how they felt and what they went through. Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. Fever 1793 was one of the best books I have ever read because of the plot and the moments that really got to me. Mattie was one of the main characters and she went through a lot of adversities
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I have recently finished the book "Fever 1789" by Laurie Halse Anderson. It was filled with a roller coaster of emotion leaving the reader on the edge before every chapter. The description in the book fills my mind of how it was back in the 1700’s. This book demostrats a good understanding of the environment and tone in the book. At the end of the book it shows real life sections of how Anderson used history into a fictional story. The other book i’m reading is "Night" by Ellie Wiesel. It shows a
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Corporate Reputation Review Volume 8 Number 3 Top of Mind How Corporate Communication Influences Strategy Implementation‚ Reputation and the Corporate Brand: An Exploratory Qualitative Study Janis Forman Anderson School at UCLA‚ Los Angeles‚ CA Paul A. Argenti Tuck School at Dartmouth‚ Amos Tuck School of Business‚ Dartmouth College‚ Hanover‚ NH ABSTRACT This paper reports the findings of a qualitative field study of five firms from diverse industries on best practices in corporate communication
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to stomach‚ but were also completely necessary. It is one thing to discuss a humanitarian issue‚ but once you see the face of a young child that actually fell victim to it‚ the issue becomes all too personal to just talk about anymore. Laurie Halse Anderson once said “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance”. The Malek Jandali Trio’s mission has nothing to do with politics. Not once did any of the performers take a stance on the Syrian Civil War. Not once was there a mention
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In the book wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson a girl named Lia overbrooke is an anorexic cutter who worries about her self image‚ her family‚ and her life. The story starts when Lias best friend Cassie dies in a motel room‚ this highlights all of Lia and her pain. As children Lia and cassie
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The well-known adventure novel The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and the historical fiction novel Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson both exemplify the use of the “wise old man” archetype through the characters Gandalf and “Grandfather.” Although the former is a powerful sorcerer and the latter is a vulnerable slave‚ both act as sagacious advisors for the stories’ main protagonists—Bilbo and Isabel. At one point in the Chains text‚ when Isabel (a slave girl) goes to the town’s pump to get her water‚ Grandfather
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