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anna's story


We pick up on this in Chloe's story: "The first time I tried dope I was at Anna's house." pg 60. This shows us that Anna was not really as innocent as she is made out to be. Even though it is not stated whether or not Anna was smoking it too we assume that she was due to the fact that it was her house. This makes Donaghy less credible to us and we start to question what the book is selectively leaving out. In the middle is the information that turns the book into a non-fiction expository text. We get a big chunk of facts about drugs and alcohol. It gives us long explanations about the drugs and this information is repeated over and over just using different words. This is trying to show us the dangers of these different things thought it just bores us. The inclusion of these facts is supposed to inform us and scare us into not experimenting with drugs. Part Two of the book is gives us information about what went on around Anna's death. This part of the book is really involving. It uses emotive language and dramatic descriptions of what happened to Anna, which gets us involved in the story. It is quite sad and interesting. It is probably about the most informative and interesting part of the book. There is a quote that talks about George and it not being his fault that Anna died: "It wasn't his fault. It wasn't anyone's fault." pg 176. One of the main aims of the book is to try to get us to believe that it wasn't Anna's fault that she died, that it was the drugs fault. This quote is yet another attempt to try to make us believe that it was not her fault, when in fact she was the one who wanted to take the ecstasy and did. The inclusion of the letters and poems written by Anna is to remind us that she was a real person, she was still just a kid. They show her feelings towards her life and the people in it. All the quotes from Lewis Carroll are also trying to convince us that Anna was still a child.


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