The Girl I Used To Be Book Report

I noticed that in the book, The Girl I Used To Be, the main character, Ariel, didn’t get close to basically anyone until she moved back to her birth home. This is probably because she was still needing to know who murdered her parents and when she went back to her birth home people were willing to help her. When she was in the foster system, all people wanted to do was give her a new life and that was not what she wanted.
I wonder if anyone besides Nora and Duncan realized that Ariel was Terry and Naomi’s daughter and they just didn’t say anything in the fear of being wrong. If so, I also wonder who would have realized it. I feel like it would have been Terry’s sister because she would have spent more time with Terry and his daughter than other people.
I think that many people who knew Terry believed that at first, he had killed Naomi. But I also think that those same people wanted the murderer to just have been some random hobo. They probably wanted the killer to be someone they didn’t know. That way, it wouldn’t have left the burden of personally knowing and associating with a cold-hearted killer. …show more content…
She went looking in the woods ALONE for some kind of evidence, she kicked a guy in the nuts to get away from him, she was smart enough to follow a dear to figure out how to get through a forest fire, and she knew that she needed to hide underwater to avoid getting shot. I most likely would have gone back to my birth home, asked around a little bit, maybe go look for something with another person of course, and then not do things that might get me killed. The big difference between me and her is that she figured out who killed her parents but if I were her I wouldn’t have. I would not have been brave enough to take all the risks she