Wintergirls Essay
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Class:Edu 5B
Course:Exploring Prose
Commentary Research: “Wintergirls” by John Steinbeck
In this reasearch, we will focus on the elements of literature; particulary on the theme, character, plot, and point of view of the novel “Wintergirls” by John Steinbeck.
Wintergirls is a novel for adolescent and young adult which published in 2009. The main character in this novel, Lia, is an adolescent. Also the writing style of this novel is in adolescent perspective. Lia and her best friend - Cassie swear to be the skinniest girl in the school. They are eating disorder sufferer, Lia has an anorexia nervosa while Cassie has a bulimia. The phenomenon of a view about the perfection of physical is an important issue in adolescent. The theme in Wintergirls novel shows about isolated, fear, and self-esteem. The main character of this novel, Lia, isolated with herself obsession to be the skinniest. She has extremely low self-esteem. She calls herself as ‘fat, ugly, stupid, and disgusting’. When she looks in the mirror, her thought say that she is fat, while in fact her body looks like skeleton. Her disorder eating isolated herself to stop eating, change her mind about food. In one side, as a human, she needs to eat, and in another side she isolated by her …show more content…
It shows that young people tend to have other perspective in facing something. In this novel, Lia’s parents are divorced. They do care to keep her alive, but what Lia thinks of them sometimes happens in our real life. It is such a disturbing part to know that our family calls other family member with their names even a daughter calls her mother with her name. For examples, “My stepmother Jennifer could lock the door…”, “My stepsister Emma doesn’t answer”. Even to call her mother, she prefers to call her name rather than mom. It can be seen from this sentence, “Mom Dr. Marrigan drove me home to her
Class:Edu 5B
Course:Exploring Prose
Commentary Research: “Wintergirls” by John Steinbeck
In this reasearch, we will focus on the elements of literature; particulary on the theme, character, plot, and point of view of the novel “Wintergirls” by John Steinbeck.
Wintergirls is a novel for adolescent and young adult which published in 2009. The main character in this novel, Lia, is an adolescent. Also the writing style of this novel is in adolescent perspective. Lia and her best friend - Cassie swear to be the skinniest girl in the school. They are eating disorder sufferer, Lia has an anorexia nervosa while Cassie has a bulimia. The phenomenon of a view about the perfection of physical is an important issue in adolescent. The theme in Wintergirls novel shows about isolated, fear, and self-esteem. The main character of this novel, Lia, isolated with herself obsession to be the skinniest. She has extremely low self-esteem. She calls herself as ‘fat, ugly, stupid, and disgusting’. When she looks in the mirror, her thought say that she is fat, while in fact her body looks like skeleton. Her disorder eating isolated herself to stop eating, change her mind about food. In one side, as a human, she needs to eat, and in another side she isolated by her …show more content…
It shows that young people tend to have other perspective in facing something. In this novel, Lia’s parents are divorced. They do care to keep her alive, but what Lia thinks of them sometimes happens in our real life. It is such a disturbing part to know that our family calls other family member with their names even a daughter calls her mother with her name. For examples, “My stepmother Jennifer could lock the door…”, “My stepsister Emma doesn’t answer”. Even to call her mother, she prefers to call her name rather than mom. It can be seen from this sentence, “Mom Dr. Marrigan drove me home to her