In the dramatic, but sadly realistic book Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson tells the story of Lia, an anorexic teenager, after her closest friend Cassie mysteriously dies in a motel room. This engrossing book is suspenseful and breath-taking as Lia and her family take on many challenges and obstacles. More specifically, Wintergirls deals with real world problems such as children actually not eating and cutting themselves because they believe it cures their pain when they don’t even feel safe in their own bodies. This story of the challenges and responses in young teeenagers provides a frequently disturbing but important look into these real-life challenges that kids may go through. I found this story to be extremely sad and a bit disturbing,
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Consequently, this has pushed her to be the skinniest girl in the class, which can be seen as a consistent problem for her. Also, Lia spends most of her time in her house or driving her sister Emma to sports. The author, Laurie Halse Anderson describes what Lia is seeing and feeling physically and mentally, which provides a very good sense of the challenging feelings she is facing. Overall, I enjoy the writing style of Wintergirls and how the story is told through Lia’s perspective, however, it would be interesting if the story was told through multiple characters perspectives because then the readers would know more about the characters and it might change the reader’s thoughts on the story. For example, in some parts of the book, it shows hints of how different characters are feeling, and it would be interesting to know exactly what they are thinking as well. The same theme of teenage challenges and depression is shown in Wendelin Van Draanen’s book, The Running Dream. However in this book Jessica is not self destructive because she has just lost her leg, instead she is depressed because of the tragedy that has recently occurred and hurt her physically and mentally. Both of these girls have had something tragic happen to them, this impacts
Consequently, this has pushed her to be the skinniest girl in the class, which can be seen as a consistent problem for her. Also, Lia spends most of her time in her house or driving her sister Emma to sports. The author, Laurie Halse Anderson describes what Lia is seeing and feeling physically and mentally, which provides a very good sense of the challenging feelings she is facing. Overall, I enjoy the writing style of Wintergirls and how the story is told through Lia’s perspective, however, it would be interesting if the story was told through multiple characters perspectives because then the readers would know more about the characters and it might change the reader’s thoughts on the story. For example, in some parts of the book, it shows hints of how different characters are feeling, and it would be interesting to know exactly what they are thinking as well. The same theme of teenage challenges and depression is shown in Wendelin Van Draanen’s book, The Running Dream. However in this book Jessica is not self destructive because she has just lost her leg, instead she is depressed because of the tragedy that has recently occurred and hurt her physically and mentally. Both of these girls have had something tragic happen to them, this impacts