Blog #4 - Final Thoughts

In the end of my novel, Anise is fortunately stopped from committing suicide. The nurse happened to call her when a random guy on the bike stopped to ask if she was okay. She went back to the hospital and made the decision to live instead of die. She knew it was not her fault for the decisions her brother made and that she should take care of herself in order to be released from the hospital. All the issues in my novel are resolved by the end of the book. Anise is at her healthy weight, and for art class she had to do an assignment on herself and it had to be about her life. Earlier in the book she had to do an assignment to draw pictures of her naked and it was really uncomfortable for her because she hates her appearance. For this assignment she chose to take pictures of herself and get them photo shopped, she explained to her class how she is anorexic and how it affects her life. She said that now a days everything is photo shopped and no one in magazines really looks like that. She explained how every day is a struggle to love herself and then she took a hammer and broke her weighing scale. She claimed she was sick and tired of her always watching her wait and that at this moment it would come to an end.

The doctors at the hospital agreed that it was time to release her and the councillors she was seeing said they should do as she asks and put her in a group home because they think it would benefit her and her condition because she doesn't like living with her family and refuses to put up with her parents. As for her brother, he's still in a coma and Anise is about to start her new path out into the world.

I liked how the novel ended but I wish the novel went on a little bit more to say how Anise is doing and if she has fully recovered and continued on that good path. The ending was really realistic and very captivating, I didn't even want to put my book down! I think this book was really good! I honestly thought that Anise had given up because sometimes these kind of books don't have a happy ending, and when she was on the verge of killing herself I even wanted to put the book down and discontinue reading. I think it was really related to teenagers lives and that a lot of teenagers would really like this book.