Literary Devices In Where It Began

Where it began by Ann Redisch Stampler, is about a seventeen year old Gabriella Gardiner, or Gabby, who is another normal teenage girl. After receiving a complete physical makeover by her mom, that makes her unrecognizable even to her two best friends, she then becomes the girlfriend of Billy Nash one of the most popular and daring boys at Winston High School. Later that year Gabby, after attending a party with him, is found unconscious on the side of the road from a car crash with the keys of Billy Nash’s Blue Beemer in her hand. Not remembering anything leading up to the crash on Songbird Lane, she is admitted to a hospital to try to regain her memory and to also heal physically from the damages of the crash. Throughout her journey to regain her memory she learns that people can sacrifice others for their own safety. In the beginning, when Gabby becomes the girlfriend of Billy, it is seen as if she is …show more content…
The variety of sentences show the emotions or thoughts of Gabby when finding out the truth of the crash is revealed. “He played me. He framed me for an actual CRIME. Beyond cheating, beyond lying, beyond not loving me. I am so stupid”. This reveals that from the first sentence it’s short getting the general idea of he played her, of the first thought she had when seeing the truth. Connecting back to my theme of people can sacrifice others for their own safety, this shows that Gabby sees herself as the sacrifice for Billy for the first time. Then the third sentence of “Beyond cheating, beyond lying, beyond not loving me”. I see this as Gabby’s incomplete thoughts going through her mind from being shown the pictures from the party. This showing the author uses certain places of the text to further develop the theme within the book making the reader pay deeper attention to see the clues of the message from Where it