Celia Behind Me by Isabelle Huggan showcases a flashback into Elizabeth’s past; the discovery of a “darkness” that holds within her. Elizabeth deals with the pressure of fitting in and is willing to harm Celia in order to have a higher status in the school. Keeping Celia in a “state of terror” brings her to ease, “exhilarating,” and punching the inner anger out. It allows her to redirect her emotions from herself as a victim, to bully. Huggan creates “cold” and “frozen” imagery to demonstrate the “bitter” winter which parallels with Elizabeth’s behavior. Huggan portrays the sky to be “very pale and lifeless” as Elizabeth experiences her friends betraying her, her feelings were drained as the sky. The colorless sky spoke to Elizabeth as a sign of no hope in the future, allowing herself to burst out the “pure hatred” for Celia. Elizabeth acknowledged “the others” abandoning her with Celia, to push the pressure off of herself she weighs it on Celia. …show more content…
Elizabeth supposed her mother was watching out and being “nice” to Celia more than to her daughter. Elizabeth did not consider the fact that her mother was protecting her from getting wounded because she knew that “Some day” Elizabeth will “see how it feels” herself; she was egocentric. Elizabeth convinced herself she was going to “heaven.” She had faith she was the greatest person, not noticing that she was ruining a life. “I’m nicer to her than anybody else,” allows her to feel ahead of everyone, letting Celia think that they are ‘friends’ but she is like “the