Flawed By Cecelia Ahern And Tell Me Three Things By Julie Buxbaum

If you could choose a song to reflect yourself, which song would you choose? While there are many possibilities that could fit this answer, it is not difficult to choose songs that fit the characters of the books Flawed by Cecelia Ahern and Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum. Flawed is a story starring Celestine as she goes through her life after being deemed as Flawed, which is a huge dishonor in her society. Everyone who is Flawed is assigned to a Whistleblower, who checks in on the Flawed and runs tests to make sure they obeyed all of the rules that day. Celestine’s Whistleblower is named Mary May, and she is known to be the strictest Whistleblower of them all. In Tell Me Three Things, the main character, Jessie, has just moved from Chicago

To begin, a song that could be used to describe Celestine is “F**king Perfect” by Pink. First of all, the first part of the song illustrates what Celestine did to become Flawed. In the beginning verse, the song says, “Bad decisions, that’s alright…Mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood”. In the book, Celestine helps a Flawed man on a bus, which is completely against the rules. This is her “bad decision”, and she is “mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood” because a deed that seemed to be good and helpful in her eyes but is looked down upon by those in power. Then in the refrain, Pink sings, “Pretty, pretty please, don’t you ever, ever feel like you are less than, less than f**kin’ perfect”. In Celestine’s society, you are either perfect or Flawed. As a result, Celestine has always thought of herself as perfect until she was taken to court and

First, the song starts with a verse including the lyrics, “She sees them walking in a straight line, that’s not really her style. And they all got the same heartbeat, but hers is falling behind”. For example, at Jessie’s first class on her first day at her new school, the class went around telling everyone what they did this summer. While everyone else had done activities such as backpacking in India or building a school in Tanzania, Jessie had spent her summer working at a smoothie joint (Buxbaum 11). On top of that, she had gone to the wrong classroom and was told to leave after announcing what she had done over the summer. Certainly, Jessie felt as though everyone was walking in one line, going to the right classes and doing amazing things over the summer, while she was walking her own dysfunctional line. Another way that “Cool Kids” describes Jessie is shown in the refrain, which says, “I wish that I could be like the cool kids, ‘cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in”. Jessie outlines how the rest of her peers look by saying they all have designer sunglasses, are super skinny, drive the newest BMWs, and are beautiful. When observing two blonde girls who attend her school, she described them as being “pretty in that lucky, conventional way” (Buxbaum 20). Jessie then says, “I’ll be honest: I wouldn’t mind being lucky in precisely that way…” (Buxbaum 20).