Saving Zoë by Alyson Nöel



http://www.google.ca/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=635&tbm=isch&tbnid=hOrlc3hfIoQ6QM:&imgrefurl=http://alysat2016.edublogs.org/2011/04/20/saving-zoe/&docid=OavymRAJeHKiSM&imgurl=http://dentonlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/saving-zoe.jpg&w=400&h=600&ei=DOBgUPOLG8yB0AGI-4DIDg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=118&vpy=115&dur=111&hovh=275&hovw=183&tx=94&ty=116&sig=104652782783262571729&page=1&tbnh=147&tbnw=98&start=0&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:71Saving Zoë by Alyson Nöel is about a young grade 9 girl named Echo trying to get through high school. Usually it wouldn't be so difficult for Echo, but recently her older sister Zoë was murdered. Now Echo has to face the stares of random strangers she doesn't know, deal with her friends, and her sister's ex-boyfriend. When Marc, Zoë's ex-boyfriend shows up to Echo with Zoë's diary, she is indulged to read it. But while reading her sister's diary, she learns about her sister's struggle and about herself.

This book I found hard to get into, because it was really slow and nothing really happened. But as I got further along in the book, I found myself more interested and I wanted to read more. I really wanted to know what had happened to Zoë, and so when I got to the part when Echo read her diary, it got really interesting.

“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

Fairy Tales always tell us a lesson, whether it be to stand out and be yourself or to be nice to others in such a way you would want to be treated. But most fairy tales tell us to face our fears. Stand up for ourselves and others. In this big world we may face strange, big, small, scary, mean people. We will meet such people. But it is our jobs to face these people in our lifetimes and overcome this. Not only overcome people, but our fears. Our fear is what makes us human. But what also makes us human is the fact that most of us can overcome these fears. If we try and try again, most of us can. Just like how people in fairy tales can defeat the dragon.
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