OK, I'm done reading "When She Was Good". So...this girl, Em, has an older sister. They live together in an apartment, even though Em's sister, Pamela, is very abusive to her she loves her and depends on her. I think she feels this way because ever since she was little her parents kind of put her on the side and Pamela was the only one giving her attention. Usually bad attention. So, one day Pamela dies. Em doesn't realize that now she is free to do whatever she wants and that Pamela isn't going to be there to yell at her or hit her. Throughout the book Em is talking about her life before living alone with Pamela, while living alone with Pamela, and now that Pamela's dead. For some reason she can't stop thinking about her and feeling scared. It seems to me that Em's life revolves around Pamela. In the search for a new life, Em tries to plant a garden just like her mother would've. But the building manager doesn't allow her to. She feels hopeless. It takes Em about two months to realize that she is free. During those two months all she does is think about Pamela and what she isn't going to allow her to do. But one day, she wakes up to an empty apartment. There is NO Pamela, finally she opens her eyes, and starts doing what she likes. She found a job, found a place for her garden and thought about her dead mother and how much she had suffered. I don't know what to think about this book. I like it because I like her story, I liked reading all the things she had to go through, but I didn't like the ending. It was so vague. I think the author might want the readers to infer that she will have a good life and forget about all of the difficulties she had, but I still want something more. Something to give me a little more detail of how things are going to be different for Em. But then again, maybe that's the mystery that the author wants to leave me with.
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the book seems kind of interesting. maybe i'll probably read this after i'm done. the book kind of goes along with the saying that you never miss something until it's gone.
"don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got til it's gone?"
that was the first line that came to my head when i read your paragraph about how Em misses Pamela's continous nagging and abusive behavior,and how Em knows she lived based on all of that. People tend to miss things that are close to their heart,even if it means getting scolded,hit or abused by their loved ones.Em's life basically revolved around her sister's involvement. I get really disappointed when authors leave you hanging and don't fully close the plot or end the story properly but I'm sure you still enjoyed reading it! =)
-rabeeya-
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