Pain and personal loss is a difficult thing to cope with, losing a loved one makes it difficult to express emotions and even worse others to try to understand your own struggle. “The Plagiarists Daughter” by Kate Benson is a dark tale of Lilith a girl who has no one in her life and struggles to explain her situation to her friends that pushes her to the point of “death” of her past life and her past problems. Lilith trying to get her message of pain and inner anguish across is seen throughout the story but most vividly in the last two pages. The pain of Lilith’s lose drives her to drown herself this scene is documented with the stunned reaction of the school girls, “We don’t remember how long we waited there, the seconds seeming …show more content…
This moment of Lilith trying to drown herself is a rebirth for both the students and Lilith herself. Lilith tries to end the horrible torture she is being put through by taking her own life but comes out of the water free and meets the embrace of someone who finally loves her. The students are reborn in when they escape the water they feel the cold hair on their backs, “And no we don’t remember what it felt like. To watch from across the room. Our own damp and cold against our skin, and no one to touch it” (12). All throughout the story, they thought it was “so cool” that Lilith didn’t have any parents, anyone who cared for her, but in this moment with the coldness of both their hair and their hearts they finally felt the pain Lilith was suffering every day. The students had no idea how horrific it was to live with this lack of a loved one, this made Lilith’s suffering even more horrible, but her eventual freedom from this all the more worth wild. Lilith is finally embraced by the headmistress and her husband after she is rescued from the frozen lake, “As mundane and unpolished and beautiful as we had ever seen her, rushing over to Lilith and sweeping her up in her wide, warm arms. “You’re ok”, she said “You’re ok” (12). This warm embrace is the first