What I am feeling as I am reading Wintergirls

Wintergirls is a very emotional book. Well depends what kind of person you are really? The emotions that this book brought up were sadness. Sadness because you know this girl Lia is basically killing her self but she doesn't see it. All she sees is a fat person even though she's skin and bones really. Most people don't think it's really that common of sickness. There are many different forms of it that most people don't know of. The thing that really made me sick was the pro-Ana websites. These are websites that promote eating disorders. I get that in these peoples minds it's a heathy right thing to do. The websites give girls/men tops and ways to bing and purge things. They also have comment parts that encourage girls like I lost another 5 lb. Other things that can and have been said in these site are like  I forgot to erase my history on my computer and my mom saw that I have been on sites like this and is watching me like a crazy person now. In the book it talks about Lia finding her friend picking in the bushes her freshman year or right before their freshman year of high school because she doesn't want to get fat. She told Lia she learned how to do it at drama camp. When she came home Lia was cutting another very sad and scary thing to do to your self. What these girls go through is sad and tariffing to think about. I know personally I have been that think yet I didn't have the same things going through my mind as Lia and Cassie did. I could get my self to gain the wait, was i as depressed as they were yes I hated gaining the weigh later and still do. Yet I could never starve my self to become thin. To think how hungry I would be? Just thinking about it makes me sick. Yet they don't realize some of the things they do is a cry for help, but they really don't want to change.  I hope people realize it is real and is very common thing that people around us have eating disorders.

my thoughts on why the main characters are good

Lia Marrigan Overbrook, is the main character in my book Wintergirls. She is a girl with an eating disorder. She is a good main character in my eyes mainly because she does show you a good example of an eating disorder person.  Then there was her old best friend Cassie. Cassie is haunting her; at least that is what Lia feels like.  Cassie has or what it seems like to have a same problem just as Lia. Lia at least gets treatment even if she doesn’t want it or says she is doing better but not really.  These two characters are very strong characters to read about. The story they are in is bit slow while reading it. Yet no matter what Lia is a great character to read about in this book called the Wintergirls.