This passage shows the reader the point of view from the boy’s perspective, which plays an important part in the novel. We are always learning about the girls from everyone else’s perspective, but we never get to know how they personally felt. I think that this is important because it shows that even though the boys analyze everything about the girls they never fully understand what is going on. As stated in the passage they know that they are “twins,” but they can’t seem to make sense of what’s going on inside their heads. Perspective plays an important role throughout the novel along with infatuation and mystery. With each new perspective in the novel we learn a little bit more about the girls and why they might have chosen suicide, but the
