The author uses personification to show how the expression on Cooper 's face made Sawyer feel bad. A facial expression can not physically tug at someone 's heart which is why it is personification. Sawyer caught Cooper roaming the halls and asked what he was doing. Cooper said that he was board in trig. He took the long way to the bathroom to take up time. He then asked her to go for coffee later, but she said no which made her feel bad. The mixed emotions that Sawyer has about Maggie 's death are identical to mine. We both think that Maggie wouldn’t just kill herself over something small. Many people believed that Sawyer was the cause, but both Sawyer and I know that something else caused it. If I was Sawyer I would have done exactly