ind read

10/11/12

Wintergirls

23-42

   1.    In this portion of the book it starts with Lia taking her stepsister Emma to soccer practice. Since Lia was in hospital Emma told her coach that she had cancer and so Emma wouldn't let Lia watch her play. Then she sets up food to eat and cooks it and make sure the smell is in the house and just throws it away so her step-mom and dad think that she is eating enough. She is living with her dad because her mom is a doctor and was always noticing the little things like her not actually eating. At the end of the chapter she says Cassie is still visiting her.

   2.`    (29)        … when I was a real girl,

I found this quote in the book meaningful because it is that like she is not a real girl now, the way she is. I think what the quote means by when she was a real girl that she did not have an eating disorder and did not have to feel so bad whenever she ate or like would have to lie about eating and really just throw it away. Also then she did not constantly count calories and the number of bites she took. I think it also means when she used to be “normal”.

.  3.     This book relates to this one movie that I saw once. It relates to the movie because it was about a girl who had an eating disorder and it had showed how much it affected her life and who she was like the eating disorder that Lia has is really affecting her in a big way in her life right now. In the movie the girl with the eating disorder would also hide food a lot and act like she had eaten it even though she never did.