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Ghosts In 'We Were Liars'

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Ghosts

Maxwell H. Albert
Galion High School
Accelerated English 10
Felicity Melendez
13 March, 2023

Imagine you are in an abandoned house and all the doors begin opening and closing by themselves, some would say this is the work of spirits. The existence of ghosts has been a mystery for centuries. The novel We Were Liars by E. Lockhart was a mixed emotioned, plot twisting story about a spectacular family who hides their secrets, lies, and flaws behind beauty. The family had many problems and tragedies going on inside of their lives but as the story continues they try their best to hide the fact that it ever happened so they were still looked upon as the perfect ones. The message that is implied is to never judge a book by its cover, …show more content…

Many people claim that they have seen or encountered ghosts throughout their lifetime but are they being truthful or are they seeing things due to a mental health issue. Now, the controversial dispute is, are ghosts really real and can they appear to people? It’s true to believe that the people in We Were Liars were really ghosts. The fact of ghosts existing is looked down upon just due to the fact that you can not physically see them all the time. Many people don’t believe in ghosts just because they are unable to see them but for a small majority of people think they can see them and interact with them. In the novel The first appearance of a ghost in the novel is when Cadence is recovering from her accident and sees her grandmother's ghost. She describes her as "a flicker of white against the dark" (Lockhart, 2014, p. 21). The introduction to …show more content…

Throughout the story it was shown that inhumanly things were appearing to Candace through what it seemed to be ghosts. The ghosts appeared to her giving her ideas and helping figure out what really happened on the day of the accident while her family doesn’t believe her claim. She trusts the ghosts and follows them and ends up seeing the real result about what happened during that day. In the real world you can see this through the catholic faith and how they put their trust into God and the Holy Spirit and follow their ways without being able to truly see them.

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E Lockhart. (2016). We were liars. (export edition). Delecorte Press.
Bram, L. L., Dickey, N. H., & Wagnalls, F. (1993). Funk & Wagnalls new encyclopedia. Funk & Wagnalls. Luhrmann, T. M., Weisman, K., Aulino, F., Brahinsky, J. D., Dulin, J. C., Dzokoto, V. A., Legare, C. H., Lifshitz, M., Ng, E., Ross-Zehnder, N., & Smith, R. E. (2021). Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(5), e2016649118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2016649118 Christianty Quotes (5 quotes). (n.d.). Www.goodreads.com. Retrieved March 13, 2023, from https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/christianty?scrlybrkr=a473fa32 jordanthomasstewart. (2018, October 9). I believe in the Holy Spirit. RESource.

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