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Personal Pathways Of Possibility: The Truth Project By Dante Medema

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Gunnie Beacham Ms. Holliday Honors English 10 6 April 2023 Personal Pathways of Possibility The book The Truth Project by: Dante Medema features a girl named Cordelia Koenig and her journey when finding out shocking news through research from her senior project. Koenig thinks she can cruise through the project easily by writing simple poems about her ancestry, but the truth hampers that notion revealed from her DNA test: the dad she has grown up with her whole life is not her real dad. Her biological Dad is a suspicious man living in Seattle with a skeptical past. Cordelia faces several difficult choices throughout the novel and struggles as many normal teens do in handling the news she discovers. Cordelia and I act very similarly in situations of distress …show more content…

then change the project" (Medema 253-254). This dialogue conversation between the sisters helps Cordelia to see she has been different since the start of the project. I understand that Cordelia doesn't want to bring her sister into the issues and confusion, and I believe that I would do the same to my sister in that situation without even realizing what I was doing. Her father also noticed these changes, and though in reality he did know that he was not her real dad, he still was concerned for her and knew it wouldn't change them: "In a few months/ you'll be adult enough/ to make these choices/ for yourself./ But it needs to stop:/ the lying,/ the sneaking./ Because we want to build/ a trusting relationship/ with you," (Medema 243). The melancholy tone of this stanza is used to make us all feel sad for her father. Only seeing things mainly from Cordelia's perspective has made us rationalize her decisions, but the tone of this dialogue makes the reader rethink. Her dad is aware that they are falling apart and Cordelia is pushing him away, but he just wants to

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