Everything Changes Everything Stays The Same Analysis

19) On page 93, Marina quoted “Everything changes, everything stays the same” I think by this, she meant a sequential order of what happens. First everything is normal and life is on a median. Then, it tilts to good or bad and then everything and everyone begins to change. Especially people. Once everything changes, you expect it to feel different and feel like a ‘change’ continuously. In the end, like any other event, it settles in and becomes the norm. It stays the same and you don’t feel as if anything had changed in the first place. Marina had changed from being a normal girl to someone who restricts herself from using her voice. It would have became really different at the time, but in the end, it settled in and it became a normal behaviour for, not just herself, but for everyone. For me, I’ve been through a lot of changes and transitions and eventually, it
It stays the same.

20) When Marina found at that Cathy lived near the prison her father dwelled in, she just couldn’t resist the temptation to go see him. Throughout the book, she expressed her love, hate and concern for her father. When it came to her father, she was very indecisive and unsure about what to think about him. For example; “I still don’t know what to do about him--about my father, I mean. I don’t think I can ever visit him. But sometimes I think about writing him a letter. I don’t imagine anyone else is going to.” - page 73 But she still had that small hole in her heart that only he could fill. Her father threw acid at her and basically ruined her life and her face. She still couldn’t hate him and stay away from the thought of him. She