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Post by liss31d on Jul 1, 2007 3:40:35 GMT -5
Amelia sits in front of Dawn in Dawn Saves the Planet, giving her sympathetic look and assuring her it will be ok when Dawn finds out that she was not elected to run the recycling programme.
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Post by u4me on Oct 18, 2007 22:23:17 GMT -5
I remember when I bought this book. I remember reading the back and telling my mom how someone dies and I have to find out who it is.
I liked this book. I had a classmate die when I was 12, so I kind of related.
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Post by mckay on Oct 20, 2007 21:38:48 GMT -5
I remember the last time I read this, it occurred to me how horrible it must have been for Barbara, to find out that her best friend died at a school assembly. I guess the Freemans weren't really in any state to be making calls before the start of school that day, but if they were able to get in touch with the school...
I found it weird that Mary Anne carried Amelia's picture around with her before the accident. I mean, they never interacted in the series! What the heck? Of course, I didn't trade school pictures with my friends or anything anyway, so the whole idea is odd to me.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 20, 2007 23:36:07 GMT -5
^ Barbara didn't find out until the assembly? I didn't remember that but it is awful! I really felt bad for Barbara, even though we didn't know her before this book, and was glad to see her show up again in Secret Friend. I didn't remember the thing about the picture, either. That is a bit strange. I did have lots of people who weren't very close friends give me their school pictures but I never carried them. I never carried many pictures, though. I tried for a while but my wallet and everything is such a mess without them even ;D
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 21, 2007 2:39:37 GMT -5
Was that when Mary Anne was at the funeral and she recognizes the big picture of Amelia in the vestibule because she had a wallet-sized copy? Maybe she was just the type to keep school pictures people give her in her wallet, even if she doesn't know them really well, to be polite. She is pretty neat and organized and I could see her promptly storing them away.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2007 5:08:24 GMT -5
I found it weird that Mary Anne carried Amelia's picture around with her before the accident. I mean, they never interacted in the series! What the heck? Of course, I didn't trade school pictures with my friends or anything anyway, so the whole idea is odd to me. That always struck me as really frigging weird. When I reread the book recently, I considered that it might be a class picture, but it seems odd that the Freemans would use that rather than a picture of Amelia alone. How many of MA's friends' school pictures did she carry around with her? Does she carry all the BSC members' pictures (including Logan, Shannon and Dawn) too? What about Gordon' and Barbara's? And if she doesn't, why does she carry Amelia's? She was no closer to her than she was to the others.
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Post by liss31d on Oct 21, 2007 6:30:26 GMT -5
^ Hmm maybe that was an error... but I don't care that we didn't know Amelia as a character well. Death is death and when a young person dies it's even more tragic. I always feel sick when I read the bit with Amelia's brother Josh bursting into tears and breaking down in school...
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Post by fluffycakes on Oct 21, 2007 10:10:02 GMT -5
^ Same here. About the wallet thing, it never really struck me as that odd. I agree with booboobrewer, maybe she's just the type to keep people's school photos in her wallet, no matter how well she knows them. Or maybe she put it in her wallet as a temporary thing (as in, putting it there for safe keeping before she put it somewhere else) but then forgot it was in there.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 21, 2007 10:18:43 GMT -5
^ Agree. Also, different people react differently to death and I can see MA being very upset by anyone's because she is so sensitive to things like that and because she lost her own mother. As for the picture, also agree about the reasons MA might have kept it. As for people using a professional picture for a funeral, I've known several to do this for many different reasons. Maybe one way to explain all of the strange things about MA being so affected is that she was closer to Amelia than we realized. Just because people don't hang out together and aren't around each other much, there can still be a certain "connection." Did MA ever actually say she wasn't close to Amelia? It has been a long time since I've read this one.
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 21, 2007 15:40:58 GMT -5
I think she says she wants to become closer to her, once they're in that group together for their school project. I think Mary Anne really started to admire Amelia once they were because she commented on how fun their group meetings were and how Amelia was so sweet and nice and smart and everything. She probably was already thinking of the great friendship they could have together.
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Post by macca on Oct 21, 2007 17:28:20 GMT -5
I think she says she wants to become closer to her, once they're in that group together for their school project. I think Mary Anne really started to admire Amelia once they were because she commented on how fun their group meetings were and how Amelia was so sweet and nice and smart and everything. She probably was already thinking of the great friendship they could have together. Yeah, I guess that's true, but MA's reaction still felt forced to me. I guess I'm cynical, though ;D
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Oct 21, 2007 21:27:44 GMT -5
I never read this one but after reading your posts, I can understand MA's reaction to Amelia's death even though she hardly knew her. A boy in my sixth grade class committed suicide (blew his head up with his father's gun, he was a police officer ) and even though I didn't even know his name (I'd only been at that school for a few months) I felt devastated and even went to his funeral. I also get devastated by other people's losses because it causes you to flashback to people you've lost, which brings on the majority of the sadness. I definitely have to read this book but maybe MA was sad over Amelia because she was thinking of her dead mother? I know that she was a baby when her mom died but even at that young, you can develop sad feelings about a death that could linger forever.
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 21, 2007 21:44:58 GMT -5
That is so horrible about your classmate
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 21, 2007 23:53:01 GMT -5
^ Definitely. That had to be traumatic, sweetvalleygirl. As for MA's reaction, it didn't surprise me at all, especially since she is said to cry at a lost kitten. ;D
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Post by macca on Oct 22, 2007 3:18:07 GMT -5
Wow, sweetvalleygirl, how horrific I guess I do understand MA's reaction... but as the reader, I feel we should've been given more insight into Amelia's character and her relationship with MA. She had no real history for ME, so I guess that's why I can't see MA being so devestated over it. Now if it had been a regular (if not main) character like Pete Black, I'd have felt differently about it.
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