Lies By The Book Cover Analysis

In a world full of lies, is it even worth knowing the truth? Scarlett is a sixteen year old girl who could not remember anything before the age of four. She starts to get to know the new guy at school, named Noah, and instantly falls in love. Out of the blue☺, she gained a little piece of her memory back after a car accident. Noah and Scarlett are practically attached at the hip, but the book throws in a twist. It turns out that Noah belongs to a cult called Eternal Light that Scarlett’s parents also used to be in. According to Eternal Light, Scarlett is the “light” that they need to sacrifice in order to make a gateway to the afterlife. The book title, Awake, could have a few different meanings to it. First, one meaning of the book title

In a span of a couple weeks Scarlett has had a lot thrown her way and she has to try to process it all. She has just been told that her whole life has been full of lies and everyone was able to keep the secrets from her, even her close grandparents and brother. Although she wanted to know the truth she also showed compunction, “Everything I thought I knew was a lie. I wanted to rewind ten minutes because the lie was better than the truth” (Preston 127). At the same time her mind is running ten thousand miles an hour, her heart is also being torn into pieces. The guy she thought was the one and only had tricked her into being captured by the cult. She slowly started to see the signs, Noah not being able to look or talk to her, Noah’s dad picking them up where he was not supposed to, she felt something was wrong. When Noah did not look, talk, or give into her she was broken into a million pieces. Noah was not supposed to love her but she made it so hard for him not to and he did feel really terrible but he had to do what was right for his community. After the second ritual of seven, they had already cut her arm open with a knife and in the split second Scarlett and Noah made eye contact, she saw his I-regret-being-born look in his eyes☺. Scarlett is going through some tough situations right now but she has to stay awake and prepared for her master escape if she does

No matter how contentious she is she still has to stay placid and observant so she can make a strategy to find a way out. Scarlett knows what she has to do and she is very smart “Knowledge is power” (Preston 182). Scarlett knows the more she can learn and take in from Eternal Light is all the better of a chance she has to live. She has to figure them out first to be able to try to defeat them and get away, but without knowing who they really are and their beliefs it would be hard to get into their heads to trick them into thinking you are one of them. After Noah saw how they cut Scarlett that did it for him. He flipped a switch and decided that it was her life he was going to save because she was more important to him. He tells her his plan and gets her to give him a little trust back in order to get her safe and out of that place. Scarlett has to be awake and totally prepared for