ind read

10/17/2012

Wintergirls

42-68

 1.  In this section it starts with Lia not being able to sleep and then Cassie visits her.  It then goes into how it’s Tuesday and she gets weighed on Tuesday so she drinks a bunch of water to add weight and she has to just wear a robe but she has quarters sewed in to it to make her seem heavier than she really is. Lia ends up finding a message on her answering machine from a guy who works at the hotel Cassie died at and he tells her to stop by and she does. When she gets there she lies about her name and sees the room Cassie died in. she then goes to the Movie Theater and cuts herself. It ends with her dad getting a call from her mom.

2.  (53) I`ll stand on the blocks hidden in my toes of my satin ballet slippers, pink ribbons sewn into my calves, and rise above in the air: magical.

       

      This quote was really like eye catching in a way. I think that how she talks about like ballet she s saying that’s perfect and that’s how she is and how she will remain. When it says the pink ribbons sewn into my calves I think that it means that that is holding her together. It’s what keeps her standing like also the blocks hidden in her shoes.  It also means that she will stand tall and just stay strong through everything and not give up and that she will keep fighting on.

3.   This book relates to how I remember this movie where the girl is a professional dancer and has an eating disorder to stay thin but she pushed herself to far. It reminds me of this because of that quote how she says she’s like a ballerina in a way and that she knows it will be hard but she has to do it. She has to be perfect. And to be perfect you have to be thin so she keeps standing until she won’t be able to anymore.