Sunday, September 22, 2013
Significance of the Candles
So I finished the book tonight, but I'll only post about what was in the reading for this weekend. As Callie or Alayna posted, the boys are so infatuated with the girls because they believe that they could have been the ones to save them. This post, however, concerns the strange position of the girls while they were living. Before they died, the girls were stuck in a world where they were half-living and half-dead. In the house: "The candles were a two-way mirror between worlds: they called Cecilia back, but also called her sisters to join her" (194). I found this part really interesting. While there is no clear explanation for the girls' suicides, might it be because of the memory of Cecilia calling them forward? What do you guys think? Is there a motive for their suicides, or do they do it from being overprotected by their parents? There seems like there are a million possibilities, but maybe we will never know because the boys as narrators weren't very reliable.
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I think Jack, you've got a really good idea going. I think when the girls committed suicide, Cecilia was probably the biggest thing on their minds. They probably used her suicide (and this is going to sound morbid, but I don't know how else to say it) as motivation for their suicides. So in a way, she did "call" them forward into committing the act. Personally, I believed that their parents sort of over-protected the girls into this bubble. Cecilia was able to "break free" and if she had not have, I believe that the other girls wouldn't have committed suicide either. It's kind of ironic that the entire time they are alive they are grouped together as the "Lisbon girls" and they want to escape that. But in their attempt to escape that grouping, they only get to be referred to as those Lisbon girls who committed suicide.
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