Fran Tarkenton claims that “Ignoring facts does not make them go away” which refers to the idea that people tend to avoid problems in their lives thinking that they will just disappear. In the book, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin a teenage girl, Mara Dyer, is in a devastating accident. Her best friend, Rachel, and boyfriend, Jude, were both killed but, she was lucky enough to survive. Mara and her family move to florida in the hopes that a different location will help her cope with what has happened. Although there are other deaths that occur. After some odd situations, Mara makes a realization that she has a power to kill people. Also Noah Shaw is a boy that Mara meets in Florida who could possibly help her control her special
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Morales. The teacher was always rude to Mara and even threw chalk at her once for answering a question wrong. Mara was able to control her anger towards Mrs. Morales until she received an unethical F on the final. This exasperated Mara to the point that she wished for her spanish teacher to choke on her own tongue and die. Meanwhile the wish became reality and Mara was once again reluctant to face the fact that she killed somebody: “I made it to my bedroom and darted over to my desk, to the bottle of Zyprexa sitting on it….I didn’t remember if I’d taken one this morning….That’s why the whole Morales thing-it was a coincidence that she died. Choked. A coincidence” (Hodkin 321). Mara was taking an antipsychotic to help calm her post traumatic stress that was caused from that accident where her friends died. She used the excuse of forgetting to take her medicine as a way to prevent any thoughts that it was her fault. Mara was purposely overlooking the fact that her appalling wish had come true and blaming it on another conflict she was trying to handle. Overall, the point is that trying to ignore an obstacle as important as Mara’s won’t fix anything or make anything better. Mara was unintentionally killing people but was avoiding to believe that it was actually happening. Even though the people who were murdered might
Morales. The teacher was always rude to Mara and even threw chalk at her once for answering a question wrong. Mara was able to control her anger towards Mrs. Morales until she received an unethical F on the final. This exasperated Mara to the point that she wished for her spanish teacher to choke on her own tongue and die. Meanwhile the wish became reality and Mara was once again reluctant to face the fact that she killed somebody: “I made it to my bedroom and darted over to my desk, to the bottle of Zyprexa sitting on it….I didn’t remember if I’d taken one this morning….That’s why the whole Morales thing-it was a coincidence that she died. Choked. A coincidence” (Hodkin 321). Mara was taking an antipsychotic to help calm her post traumatic stress that was caused from that accident where her friends died. She used the excuse of forgetting to take her medicine as a way to prevent any thoughts that it was her fault. Mara was purposely overlooking the fact that her appalling wish had come true and blaming it on another conflict she was trying to handle. Overall, the point is that trying to ignore an obstacle as important as Mara’s won’t fix anything or make anything better. Mara was unintentionally killing people but was avoiding to believe that it was actually happening. Even though the people who were murdered might