Analysis Of The Book 'The Thing About Jellyfish'

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This portion of my book “The Thing About Jellyfish” is significant because it was the ending and finally let all the main character come to peace with the passing of Franny. Throughout my book, Suzy was trying to cope with the death of her ex-best friend and forgive herself for her and Franny’s last “goodbye”. The five months after Suzy had lost her friend she was coping with the death by not talking, and trying to prove that Franny didn’t just die from drowning, but by an Irukandji sting. Suzy was incredibly intelligent and had planned by herself to fly to Australia to speak with a jellyfish expert to prove that her theory of the Irukandji sting was plausible. Suzy had been stealing cash from her immediate family and even

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