Compare and Contrast

                                         

I'm comparing my book Perect by Natasha Friend to this poem.
They're similar because perfection IS Isabelle's enemy. That's what she was always striving for.
To be perfect like everyone else.
It messed with her until she got to the point of suffering from bulimia.

"Have you heard of something called the halo effect?... It means that people who are good-looking, people who are beautiful like your friend Penelope, are often perceived as being perfect simply because they are beautiful. We're so blinded by the prettiness, we don't see the imperfections. We don't see them as real people, with real flaws. In fact, we see them as smarter, nicer...cooler than the average person." 

That quote from the book Is showing how she slowly became her enemy and how. She always just thought that it's all about being perfect and smart and no flaws but it got to the best of her

I think one main difference from this poem and the book is the way they became to think this way. I think that the person in the poem just thought negatively about herself and wasnt happy but with Isabelle, her father had passed away and she began to eat so much and just couldn't stop so it caused her to feel terrible at the end and would throw it all up.

Answers to Famous Last Words

          Famous Last Words by Katie Alender is about a girl named Willa. Her father passed away and she struggled to move on from it but her mom clearly moved on and got re-married to a Hollywood film director, Johnathan. Willa and her mom move to Hollywood, where a serial killer is on the loose, with Jonathan to have a new start but Willa is too caught up in the past and constantly tries to contact her father's spirit but instead ends up contacting someone who was murdured by the serial killer in that house. The serial killers way of killing people was to reenact old movie death scenes.

          In my last blog, I wrote about what confused me in the book and now that I've finished it, I understand. I had said that "she always tries to contact her dad's spirit but all she gets is things like strange messages on her mirror, reflections that aren't hers, and dead bodies in her swimming pool. How come she can't see her dad?" I found out that it was because she always contacted a person who was a victim of Serial killer in that house and  she was trying to help Willa find who it was. I also asked if her trying to contact her dad connected to the serial killer and it did in a way but it also didn't.

Questions to Famous Last Words by Katie Alender

          Famous Last Words by Katie Alender is about a girl named Willa. Her father passed away and she struggled to move on from it but her mom clearly moved on and got re-married to a Hollywood film director, Johnathan. Willa and her mom move to Hollywood with Jonathan to have a new start but Willa is too caught up in the past and constantly tries to contact his sprite which causes end to see things such as dead bodies in a pool. Another thing is that a serial killer is on the loose in Hollywood and his way of murdering them is to reenact murder scenes from old movies.

          Something that is confusing to me in this book is that she always tries to contact her dad's spirit but all she gets is things like strange messages on her mirror, reflections that aren't hers, and dead bodies in her swimming pool. How come she can't see her dad? But I also wanna know how this connects to the serial killer or if it even does connect to the serial killer.