Summary Of Bluffing By Gail Helgason

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Often in life, we are faced with difficult times and we react in different ways however, adversity is an unavoidable part of life. Events happen that are out of our control and people start showing their true self and nature when faced with these complicated times.The way people react to these unfortunate circumstances reveal their true self. This is the case with ‘Bluffing’ by Gail Helgason when events that the main character had no way of predicating arose. This is also the case in my own experiences when a situation came up which revealed the true nature of someone I had considered a friend.

In the expert from ‘Bluffing’, Gabriella is faced with a hard situation when events don’t go the way she wants. Gabriella had planned to talk about
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This is not what Gabriella had expected and to cope with her feelings she simply walks away so engulfed by her emotions she falls and lands into trouble. Gabriella is faced with adversity once again when she comes face to face with a bear she has knowledge of what to do in this situation and soon she hears Liam who we can assume also knows what to do in this situation ‘’Bluff him, remember?’’ this indicates Liam knew what the precaution was but ignored it and cowardly ran away fast as he could. This was the biggest instance that we can observe an individual's true nature coming through. The setting changes to the hospital and we find out that Liam has been injured badly while Gabriella is fine. The mood also changes you can feel the tension getting …show more content…
Gabriella choose to regain her footing and think logically of the undesirable incident while Liam had chosen to give up the end result become worse for him. It’s our response to life's tests that separates us from each other it's the defining factor in our lives. You realize a lot about a person once you are in a situation like that with them you get to see what their all about their true self is revealed to be a genuine and good or two-faced and coward. You see their true self which could be positive or negative. Gabriella really wanted to take the next step in their relationship and move in with him she really had a lot of trust in him but unfortunately a bad situation had to make her realize that he didn't even care to look back he just left

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