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Wintergirls novel7/4/2023 Unsure if it’s due to her low caloric intake or if these thoughts are to blame, Lia frequently has hallucinations of Cassie’s ghost, who scares her and urges her to hurt herself. She couldn’t stop herself from thinking “…body found in a motel room, alone…”(1) Lia is constantly hurt by these scars. Throughout the exposition of the book, Anderson slowly reveals how Lia discovers that Cassie is dead, and she constantly blames herself for “killing” her she had made a bet with Cassie on who could become the thinnest, fought with her, and didn’t answer her thirty-three phone calls on the day of her death. The ghost of Cassie symbolizes Lia’s fear and thoughts of hurting herself. Anderson skillfully uses frequent symbolism in the book, which endows it with more depth and meaning. Sent to the hospital twice, Lia not only does not recover at all from her eating disorder, but she finds that Cassie’s death triggers her to fall deeper into the hole of self-harm. The book tells the story of an anorexic girl, Lia, struggling with her dead friend Cassie, her family members, and her own body. Wintergirls is a novel written by author Laurie Halse Anderson in 2009.
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