Themes

Wordle Your Themes!

We will be using this space to make a wordle out of the themes we found in //Wintergirls.// I would like you to come up with a minimum of 12 words or themes that you discovered while reading //Wintergirls.// Take those words and put them in a wordle as seen below. To make the wordle visit : []I would also like you to write a paragraph or a list of why you chose each word. What does it have to do with //Wintergirls//? After creating your wordle, post it here for us all to see! Here is my example:




 * Wordle for //Wintergirls// By Georgia Wagner**


 * Thawing:** This is how Lia ends her story. She feels that through treatment, she is thawing.
 * Peer-Pressure:** Peer-pressure was one of the biggest contributing factors to Lia's eating disorder.
 * Perfect:** Lia and her family constantly put pressure on her to be perfect. For Lia, achieving perfection was never possible.
 * Abandon:** Lia felt as though she abandoned Cassie. She was constantly blaming herself for not being there for Cassie at the end of her life.
 * Hunger:** Lia was always hungry, but she associated it with perfection.
 * Starve:** Lia would starve herself so she wouldn't gain any weight.
 * Pink:** Lia tried to make herself "pink." Laurie Halse Anderson uses the imagery of pink throughout the book associating it with cleanliness and perfection.
 * Friendship:** Lia finds herself making and losing friends throughout the story as a result of her disorder. She shuts herself off from others, but it constantly reflecting on her relationship with Cassie.
 * Frozen:** Lia refers to herself as a "Wintergirl." The symbolism of being frozen is constant throughout the book.
 * Divorce:** Even though, for the most part, Lia has a good relationship with her step-mother, it is obvious that she still hasn't accepted her parent's divorce.
 * Dead:** Lia feels dead inside and is constantly battling with the death of Cassie.
 * Clean:** Lia starves herself to be thin but also to be clean on the inside. She strives for this until it almost kills her.
 * Cutting:** One of the ways Lia copes with her pain is through cutting. She self-mutilates to take her mind off the emotional pain she is confronting.
 * Rehabiliation:** Towards the end, rehabilitation is the only answer for Lia. She begins to understand that this is her only hope. She begins to accept herself.
 * Calories:** Lia is constantly counting her calories and regulating how much she can take in.
 * Alive:** Lia wants to feel alive,and by the end of the book she begins to. It takes her a long time to realize that the life she is living is leading her to death and in order to save herself, she must re-learn how to live.