The Fat Girl And Lawns

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In both stories, Lawns and The Fat Girl, the two main characters, females, each suffer through hard, challenging quests, in their lives, that are completely different, from one another, yet, both characters are in search for the same two things, normalcy and truth. The main character in Lawns is searching for truth and normalcy because she has been living with a dark secret that her father has been sexually molesting her since she was a girl. She looks for this normalcy, for the most part, by stealing the mail of other students, while she works, out of the school mailroom. This can be seen as a search for normalcy, because she does not get letters, cookies, like the other students normally do so she takes it from them, as if she is acting like she does. She comes to find truth, after her dad comes to visit her and molest her again, because she decides to finally tell her mother what her father has been doing, because the girl is in love with her boyfriend and wants it to end. She finally feels like she is conquering her life in truth, until she has to tell her boyfriend, and he ends up separating from her for what her father did to her. This could have triggered her to steal or do something else, because she is being punished for being truthful. As a matter of fact, the story ends when she gets her own letter in the mail, unknown from whom, and throws it away. She probably feels awkward, having something normal and feels like she should not have normalcy, even though, she wants it, because she has never wanted it before. But in the end, she grabs the letter out of the trash, and puts it back in her mailbox so she can check the mail, like everybody else, tomorrow. This furthers the idea of normalcy and how badly she wants it. All she wants is to be like everybody else. The story of The Fat Girl is similar to the previous because the main character, Louise, is also in

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