We Were Liars Sparknotes

She realised what she had done was wrong and irresponsible. The author Eugenia Collier, wants us to understand that as we grow up we make mistakes and realise our actions have consequences. This quote

This quote projects both pathos and ethos because it cites the author as a personal source using her childhood memory while also making the reader feel empathetic for the author since she was forced to deal with her perverted peer on account she could have a positive influence on his

Introduction: Situational archetypes are recurring patterns found in literature that help to understand and interpret the themes and symbols that the author employs. In E. Lockhart's novel, "We Were Liars," we see the use of several situational archetypes that help to reinforce the theme of survival. In this essay, I will discuss the different situational archetypes in the novel and how they demonstrate the theme of survival. The Journey One of the most prominent situational archetypes in "We Were Liars" is the journey.

This young girl is fighting with her emotions and is going against reality to find out the real truth about her life and what really happened. Below is how the young girl manages to do all that and what struggles she faces while trying to find the impossible. This also shows a deeper look of how much this young girl grew mentally throughout the book. In the novel, the author tells

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart is a young adult novel that explores the devastating effects of lies and secrets on the Sinclair family. The novel follows the story of Cadence Sinclair, who falls in love with Gat Patil, a boy from a lower-class background. As their relationship develops, the lies and secrets that surround the Sinclair family begin to unravel, leading to a tragic ending that illustrates the destructive power of deception. At the heart of the novel is the relationship between Cadence and Gat, which begins innocently enough but is ultimately doomed by the lies and secrets that surround them. Cadence is part of a wealthy, privileged family that has always put on a façade of perfection and happiness, even in the face of tragedy.

Some of her spite towards people throughout the play could very well stem from any of these two traumatic memories of her

The initiation involves a transformation from innocence to experience, and Cadence undergoes a profound transformation as a result of the events in the novel. In the novel, Cadence reflects on her experience, saying, "We were liars. We were beautiful and privileged, and we were liars. And we did not want to admit that we were liars" (Lockhart 10). Cadence's realization that her family is not perfect marks the beginning of her journey to maturity.

This is why I believe the characters share personal growth as a

This shows she paints herself as empathetic and unprejudiced

Intro: In E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars, the Sinclairs are all rich, happy, and beautiful, or at least this is the image they wish to portray. Because they have been conditioned to believe that only those who are white, rich and completely flawless are worthy, the Sinclairs time and time again sacrifice their mental health in order for them to maintain a reputation of superior “whiteness”. These expectations exacerbate Cadence’s emotional turmoil after her accident, and cause her to feel as though her struggles are her fault.

The audience will be able to empathise with them through their personality, goals and their perspective on society itself. In the quote where Mond describes, "Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby.

In life difficulties may arise, but an “instructive eye” of a “tender parent” is a push needed in everyone’s life. Abigail Adams believed, when she wrote a letter to her son, that difficulties are needed to succeed. She offers a motherly hand to her son to not repent his voyage to France and continue down the path he is going. She uses forms of rhetoric like pathos, metaphors, and allusions to give her son a much needed push in his quest to success.

Golden Line: “I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.” “I am still worry about losing a philosophical idea if I forget that, as my teacher dramatically suggested, and I eagerly learn, everybody is different and created with different strength and weaknesses at birth.”

Instead her personality makes the male characters change to accommodate to her, they realize that she is not

While reading the story, you can tell in the narrators’ tone that she feels rejected and excluded. She is not happy and I’m sure, just like her family, she wonders “why her?” She is rejected and never accepted for who she really is. She is different. She’s not like anyone else