"Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin? Once upon a time there were four girls. One was pretty. One was pretty. One was clever. One charming, and one...one was mysterious. But they were all damaged, you see. Something not right about the lot of them. Bad blood. Big dreams. Oh, I left that part out. Sorry, that should have come before. They were all dreamers, these girls. One by one, night after night, the girls came together. And they sinned. Do you know what that sin was? No one? Pippa? Ann? Their sin was that they believed. Believed they could be different. Special. They believed they could change what they were--damaged, unloved. Cast-off things. They would be alive, adored, needed. Necessary. But it wasn't true. This is a ghost story remember? A tragedy. They were misled. Betrayed by their own stupid hopes. Things couldn;t be different fro them, because they weren't special after all. So life took them, led them, and they were along, you see? They faded before their own eyes, till they were nothing more than living ghosts, haunting each other with what could be. With what can't be. There, now. Isn't that the scariest story you've ever heard?"
This passage to me brought alot of thinking and I think it was an important part of the story. I thought of what would happen and what those thoughts and dreams they had were. And also like what was so bad about what they believed.. since it became a sin.
What were some of your thougths while reading this passage, what came to mind?
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This passage got me thinking about how the girls were kind of betrayed by magic. And though the magic they recieved in the book created illusions, the magic was like an illusion in itself. In the realms the girls got whatever they wished for. Gemma got to see her mother, Felicity was a brave archer, Pippa had a handsome knight, and Ann was beautiful. They were dreamers and they got what they wanted. They thought that the magic was amazing, and in the end it was the opposite. It gave them the illusion of being eveything they'd wished for, and then tried to lure them in.
ReplyDeleteIn the end, the huntress that taught Felicity archery tries to eat her. Ann practically drowned in the river after staring at her own reflection. Pippa ran off with the knight and in real life died. And Gemma's mother was just one of Circe's creatures. I think it's a case of be careful what you wish for. The passage made me think of how the girls thought that getting what they wanted would solve their problems, but instead it only created them. I thought of this in this part of the passage:
"They believed they could change what they were--damaged, unloved. Cast-off things. They would be alive, adored, needed. Necessary. But it wasn't true. This is a ghost story remember? A tragedy. They were misled. Betrayed by their own stupid hopes. "
This passage got me thinking about how the girls were kind of betrayed by magic. And though the magic they recieved in the book created illusions, the magic was like an illusion in itself. In the realms the girls got whatever they wished for. Gemma got to see her mother, Felicity was a brave archer, Pippa had a handsome knight, and Ann was beautiful. They were dreamers and they got what they wanted. They thought that the magic was amazing, and in the end it was the opposite. It gave them the illusion of being eveything they'd wished for, and then tried to lure them in.
ReplyDeleteIn the end, the huntress that taught Felicity archery tries to eat her. Ann practically drowned in the river after staring at her own reflection. Pippa ran off with the knight and in real life died. And Gemma's mother was just one of Circe's creatures. I think it's a case of be careful what you wish for. The passage made me think of how the girls thought that getting what they wanted would solve their problems, but instead it only created them. I thought of this in this part of the passage:
"They believed they could change what they were--damaged, unloved. Cast-off things. They would be alive, adored, needed. Necessary. But it wasn't true. This is a ghost story remember? A tragedy. They were misled. Betrayed by their own stupid hopes. "
Honestly Danielle you couldn't have said it any better.
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