We Were Liars Essay

I’ve read We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. It’s about a girl named Cadence, a.k.a Cady, who lives with her mother in Massachusetts. Every summer she spends her time on her family’s private island(Beachwood Island) with her mother and her cousins, Johnny and Mirren, along with their families. There’s also Gat. He is Cadences’ aunt’s husband’s nephew who also has spent his summers there since he was eight, he and Cadence are also romantically involved. Cadence refers herself, Gat and her cousins as ”the liars”. Every summer there has been great, until the fifteenth when Cadence gets in an accident she can’t remember. Since then, the liars have not contacted her, she contacts them but they don’t answer. The sixteenth summer she goes to Europe with her father instead of going to the island, there she continues to try to contact them by sending …show more content…
She changes and evolves quite a lot throughout the book, she goes from a careless snob to an intelligent, open-handed …show more content…
She was one of the beautiful popular girls. All this was before the accident, after that - she practically became a whole different person. She started to act different and changed her appearance by dyeing her hair black as well. Following the consequence of not eating, she also lost a lot of weight making her thinner. After the accident, she has to take different kind of pills, so when her aunt Carrie says ”I know you’ve been sick”(p.61) she starts to joke about the pills and how them and some vodka makes her feel better, but her mother does not appreciate this and says that the pills are nonaddictive et cetera, because if you’re a Sinclair - ”No one is an addict. No one is a