Sad Perfect Character Analysis

What is one mistake someone can never come back from? Suicide, it’s irreversible. The book I read is entitled Sad Perfect, a novel created by Stephanie Elliot. In this work of fiction, there is a very good lesson to be learned about suicide and mental illness. Wrote in second person point of view, one can actually feel like it is themselves experiencing the events. Sixteen-year-old Pea tries to act like a normal high school girl, but only very few people know about her eating disorder, which restrains her from eating certain foods. Her mother and father send her to therapy, thinking this will cure their not-so-normal daughter. However, when Pea meets the boy of her dreams, her life seems to almost fall completely apart. “This monster is growing and controlling more than just your food issues - it's …show more content…
You do. You just don’t know how. And you so badly want to learn,” (Elliot, page 34). When this leads to her being admitted into the trillium center, her whole life changes. This event in the story is ironic. You expect the trillium, which is a place to help people get better and find ways to not hurt themselves, to actually help people. However, the place that was supposed to help her, did not help at all. Although setting was described as completely terrible from Pea’s point of view, it was really enjoyable to read about Pea’s journey in the ‘crazy house’. While spending four nights here, Pea realized there are other people that seem normal, but have more problems than she could’ve ever imagined. She made new friends that showed her the rules and took her on tours, she seemed almost comfortable until something tragic happened. One night, one of the patients, who claimed to be getting better, ended his own life in his room. This pushed Pea over the edge; she knew she had to get out immediately and that she didn’t belong there at