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Significance Of Laurie In Stranger With My Face

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Stranger with My face by Lois Duncan explains the puzzling yet frightening experience of finding out who you truly are. Laurie Stratton is a typical seventeen year old girl who lives in New England with her mother, father, sister, and brother. The story begins with Laurie’s friends claiming they see her wandering around during the night, Laurie swears it isn’t her and begins to wonder what is going on. After several accusations of seeing Laurie wandering around at night she begins to investigate. Laurie then finds out that she is in-fact adopted, and nonetheless she has an identical twin, Lia, that she had no idea about. Laurie then learns that Lia has been using astral projection to communicate with the people around Laurie. Unaware of the …show more content…

Throughout the book Gordon would constantly cheat on Laurie. He would not only cheat on her but he would also make it seem like it was her fault which is completely unfair because it’s one thing to cheat but to make the other person feel bad about it is ridiculous. Another reason why Laurie breaking up with Gordon was my favourite part is because of how judgemental he was of Laurie. Gordon would always undermine Laurie, he would tell her that her outfit choices were bad, he would constantly remind her of her mistakes, and Gordon would make fun of Laurie’s family which is not the way a relationship works because in a relationship you should be supportive and not criticize everything the other person does. Lastly Laurie breaking up with Gordon was a good idea because dating Gordon changed Laurie. Laurie became more insecure and more agitated towards not only her friends but also her family. Gordon was a bad influence on Laurie and changed her for the worse which isn’t a good quality in people. Laurie breaking up with Gordon was a good decision because he didn’t treat her fairly or …show more content…

A big part of mystery is investigating and putting together pieces of a puzzle to figure something out which is exactly what Laurie did. Laurie went through her parents files and documents to find out if she was really adopted like Helen, Laurie’s best friend, has assumed and when she couldn’t find anything there she continued to investigate until she found out she was in fact adopted. Secondly, this book is a mystery book because it has a lot of unanswered questions and sometimes mysteries are unanswered or even impossible to answer. Even after Laurie was saved no one knew of Lia’s whereabouts or if she would ever come back, all they knew was that Laurie wasn’t making up things about Lia, another unanswered question is what truly caused Laurie’s biological mothers death. Another big part of the mystery definition is an unsolved problem. In this book there is one huge unsolved problem which is why this book is a mystery. The unsolved problem in this book is Helen’s parents never allowing Helen to see one of her best friends, Jeff, because her parents think he caused her accident when in fact it was actually Lia but Helen’s parents never find out it was Lia. Although mystery has a vast definition I believe that this book qualifies to be a mystery for the following reasons I listed

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