Monday, August 25, 2014

Before Amelia

"Before and After"
Reconstructing Amelia 
By Kimberly McCreight
As I am about to start this book I do know more than I should for my mother read it before me and told me a bit about it. She said how much she enjoyed the book and told me that there will be a lot of twists that resemble a spanish soap opera. It will never happen in the real world, it won't make sense, and you love each one. Even with all that information I still don't know much about the book but what I can get from the title and front cover.
The Title Reconstructing Amelia tell us that the story will be about this girl named Amelia. The title also gives the idea that something is broken in Amelia's life and someone is putting her back together. The title also gives off a dark tone to it especially the word recontructing. Reconstructed is not a word used on people but on inanimate objects. The author maybe trying to say that the thing that broke Amelia also broke her humanity making her inanimate.
The cover of the book also gives a very dark tone to it because it shows a thick fog covering a city and a young looking girl with her back turned away.  It also says on the front "Do you know what's really going on inside your daughters head?". This tells me that Amelia's parents have something to do with this because Amelia must be the daughter. That line also gives the impression that there is something wrong with Amelia mentally or she is thinking of doing something bad. There is another line that says "How much would you tell your mother?". I believe this line is telling us that Amelia has a lot of secrets. The line also makes me believe that the mother might be the person reconstructing because the dad isn't mentioned.
I am not going to read the back because that might tell me too much about the story but I do think I have a good idea about the story. The story I think is going to be a messed up girl who mother is going to try to put her back together.

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