Fourth Post

I think that in my novel, Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson, the protagonist Lia shows a lot of perseverance  in which when being told to give up by her conscience, and in not wanting to eat at all and hating her life so thoroughly, she still decides that she should eat enough to keep herself alive, though food itself repulses her. If not for her perseverance however, which  I entirely feel she had considered, her death would greatly effect the people around her. For example, her young stepsister Emma at one point in the novel walks in as Lia is cutting herself (insert quotation) and that very obviously effects Emma's well-being as she is very young, and becomes unallowed by their parents to be around Lia for a significant amount of time, which Lia did not plan on and had tried to prevent. I think she very often shows empathy, shown in my previous examples but also in the fact that throughout, other people's problems make her sadder than she is already, such as the strictness, neatness and lack of courage to be spontaneous of her mother, and of course Cassie and her taking on eachothers problems as their own.