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Marissa Meyer's Heartless

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“These things do not happen in dreams, dear girl,’... 'They happen only in nightmares.'” This quote is from Marissa Meyer, in her book Heartless. This story is about Catherine Pinkerton who dances with the king at his black and white ball, realizing the king wants her hand in marriage, Catherine leaves the ball before the king can ask her. When she does she runs into a mysterious and handsome joker or as his name is Jest and falls in love with him. A Jabberwock starts terrorizing and Catherine gets her foot hurt and the pain gets to her head, then she gets mad at the king for not doing anything and Jest takes her somewhere to help her with the pain. Jest gets killed and Catherine becomes queen, she can't handle that Jest is gone, but luckily …show more content…

She has to pick to make a bakery with her friend Mary Ann or become a queen like her parents’ wish. Making a decision to either be with her friend, jest, and the bakery with the price of breaking her parents’ hearts and wishes. Or become a queen, rule a kingdom, and carry out her parents wish with the price of her bakery with Mary Ann, and being able to be with Jest. Conflicted on what to do she made a decision that hurt most but not people who wished for this day, “’It will be all right. You’re not married yet. You can still say no.’ ‘Can I? And risk my mother’s tyranny and disappointment for the rest of my life?’… ‘I don’t know how I’ve let it get this far already. I wanted to say no, but mother and father were right there, looking so eager, and the king looked so desperate, and I just… I didn’t know what else to do. Now everything is more boggled up than before’” (139-140) Cath wanted to say no but with the king just right there and her parents watching her, making it even worse. She is upset about her decision to be in a courtship with the king, but happy that her parents got what they wanted. Catherine is having two sided emotions, one of the dream and one of the queen. Choosing her fate, she chooses queen for her parents. Catherine may feel this way but her parents have a say in this, their reaction is to read

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