WINTERGIRLS

CHARACTERS

• The main character is Lia, an eighteen year old teenager.
• Lia's parents were divorced when Lia was in eighth grade.
• Leaving her feeling abandoned and lonely.
• She starts to starve herself and it all started as a bet with her best friend
• On who could be the skinniest

MORE CHARACTERS

• Cassie is Lia's best friend and has been ever since third grade.
• They lived across the street from each other, spent everyday together.
• Ever since then, they have been there for each other.
• Then as their bet went on, things started to get worse.
• A night Cassie spent the night in a motel, was a night Lia wasn't there.

PLOT

• Lia and Cassie get this weird idea to see who can become the skinniest
• Lia, an anorexic cutter who loathes her body, her family and her life.
• She has many emotions and heightened when Cassie, her bulimic best friend dies
• 33 missed calls, Cassie called crying for help but Lia is too scared to answer
• Once Lia found out "body found in a motel room, alone" she knew.

WHAT HAPPENED?

• Since they were starving themselves and being anorexic
• For a decent amount of time, Cassie rented out a motel to get alone and
• Did nothing but drink excessive amounts of alcohol which isn't good for her
• Body function, as she kept drinking she kept calling for help but her
• Body ceased and gave out on her and she died.

THEME

• The idea of eating disorders and the things that trigger them
• guilt - wether its real or that the person has made up.
• frozenness - the girls are frozen in time and this is reflected in the presence
• of winter in the novel, physically Lia is always cold because of the lack of her
• body fat, but it also echoes back to the event of winter

RESEARCH/CITATIONS

• http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-wintergirls/characters.html
• http://www.thrivingfamily.com/Family/Media/book-reviews/w/wintergirls.aspx
• Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/279648-wintergirls-laurie-halse-anderso...