Kelsey's Responsibility In The Safest Lies By Megan Miranda

At the beginning of the book, The Safest Lies, written by Megan Miranda, Kelsey Thomas, the main character, states that she has a mother who is very overprotective and cautious ever since she was abducted by someone when she was younger. Kelsey’s mom thinks about all the possibilities of danger, and Kelsey has adopted this trait of being cautious about everything since. Since Kelsey has adopted these fears, she is thinking, while riding home from school, about how she is still alive and nothing is going to happen to her. Meanwhile, she blacks out, and the outcome is worse than she expected. Kelsey’s car is practically falling off a cliff. A guy from her school, Ryan Baker, tries to assist Kelsey and get her out of the car. Eventually, the fire

Since she only knows how to see danger in everything, she is cautious and careful in The Safest Lies. I know that Kelsey is cautious in the book because in the text it says on page seventeen, "I’m not paralyzed; I’m not unconscious; I’m not bleeding out; I’m not drowning." This is Kelsey listing all of the fears and harms that could be done while hanging off of a cliff because of the car accident she was in. I can also tell that Kelsey is careful in the book because she stays aware of her surroundings and looks for anything that she may not be able to trust or that she thinks is suspicious. This leads me to conclude that Kelsey Thomas is cautious and careful in the book. The book has also led me to believe that Kelsey is brave while being cautious and careful at the same time. Knowing this sounds weird because normally people aren’t brave and scared at the same time, but Kelsey is led to be brave as well because, towards the end of the book, Kelsey is running away from Samuel, the man that kidnapped her mother and is trying to take Kelsey, and she is facing one of her deepest, darkest fears. She hasn’t given up, even after being notified that her mother is gone, she still keeps trying. Kelsey is a very heroic person because when things got hard between trying to save her mother and not

Ryan’s attitude and actions help Kelsey overcome her greatest fears. In the book, Ryan has a ceremony that he invites Kelsey to, but Kelsey can’t come because her mother won't allow it since her mother likes keeping her and Kelsey’s identities top secret and disguised. Kelsey still managed to sneak out of the house while her mother was asleep and go to Ryan’s ceremony. This shows that Ryan inviting Kelsey to go to his award ceremony has a big impact on Kelsey’s choices and decisions. This also shows Kelsey being brave enough to overcome her fear of not obeying her mother. This helps me understand that Kelsey is brave but cautious at the same time because Ryan helps Kelsey become brave and overcome her fears by facing them. For example, when Kelsey and Ryan were inside Kelsey’s house and trying to hide from the person lurking outside, Ryan was basically telling Kelsey to stay calm and not to think of the worst possible outcomes because that would just make everything even worse than it already is. Another example of how Ryan Baker’s actions explain that Kelsey is brave is when Ryan was trying to save Kelsey from falling off the cliff at the beginning of the story. Ryan was assuring Kelsey that everything would be alright and they were going to make it out safe because the police and the fire department were already on their way by the time Kelsey realized what was