Wintergirls

Lia and Cassie are best friends, winter girls are frozen in the body of the opponent, competitors are participating in deadly games to see who can become a thin lady ... more

Laurie Halse Anderson's new novel "Wintergirls" has led us to this dark, tyranny world through the experience of Lia, an 18-year-old narrator. Lily was suffering from the illusion of her dead friend Cassie. Cassie told secretly: "You are not dead, you are not alive.You are a winter girl captured in the world, rear / rear Ghost, you will cross the border with me soon , I am very excited. "In the short part, Lear explains the weeks after death detailing the symptoms of his own blood anorexia. Intertwining with Flashback - About her two failed hospitalizations ("Who wants to recover? It took me a few years to become very small, I am not sick, I am strong"); parents' Life before and after divorce. How we and Cassie promised each other, "We will do the thinnest thing together."

Some people say Wintergirls is a difficult book. There should be. Eating disorders are fatal. So I am not punching in Wintergirls. As it communicates the truth, this book is ingenious, uneasy, terrible hell. With the concept of dangerous body image, our culture makes it possible to destroy our children

Wintergirls' choice of author's symbols is effective and intuitive, whether conscious or not. The moon and the stars are the symbol of light in the dark and the candle lights the night; the mirror reflects who we are, the one we want to be; the transparent glass fragments are crystal balls As you can bring hope to the future. Through these projects, Anderson was full of light and inspiration for the darkest theme. She used the most clear and brightest symbols - glass, candles, moon and stars - to illuminate the way for the main character of the Winter Girls.