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The roses are mentioned in the book with Gat and Cady. The roses are given to Cadence by Gat. While the flowers are there in the background he tells here how beautiful she is. She does believe that everything Gat does with roses has to do with her with their love. She believes that if you dry the roses you preserve their love. Yet dried roses are not full of life and they can be even more vulnerable when dry even though they still look beautiful.

That is what the roses represent. Yes, they can look pretty until next year, but they are not the same as when they were alive. The flowers die at the end of summer, just like Cady and Gat's love but the love blooms back next summer just like the flowers.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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The intro.
Cadence tries to make the tone seem happy and perfect, yet it quickly becomes gloomy. Right after the last sentence, you see on the picture the tone flips from perfectly fine to gloomy and ominous.
The rest of the book keeps this gloomy tone throughout book, with this fake perfection undertone.

after these lines she says:
"It doesn't matter if there's a cluster of pill bottles on the bedside table. It doesn't matter if one of us is desperately, desperately in love.

So much

in love

that equally desperate measures

must be taken"

After reading a beginning like that one usually starts to wonder what has this person done, one could almost become desperate to know. The author starts sending us towards tragedy.

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The dogs are beautiful, but useless. Unlike hunting or herding dogs, they don't have jobs. So, while they're pretty, they're also purebreds that require a lot of upkeep and offer little output. Does this remind you of someone else who's blonde, rarefied, and high maintenance? The Sinclair sisters. Creating a sense of duty.

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Hello Mr Pain, are you here to hurt

All my thoughts want to divert

I feel your breath

Hello there Mr Death

Walking with who i thought was here

Talking with who? No longer there

Walking with love and holding his hand

Talking with who? standing in the sand

Fire, hot, it’s dangerous yet freedom

Fire my dear, why are you warm

Walking towards you here we come

Now we no longer feel the need to conform

My hands do not deserve to hold
My feet are merely floating
My brain is slowly melting
My emotions are seriously lacking

Hello Mr Death

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The cultural and historical context is especially important to multiple texts to help readers empathise with books and characters. The context helps give the story a deeper message and it can help to fight social issues

Texts help with insights into a part of the world that someone may never experience. Texts can give people comfort and warnings into the real world. Texts can even be a guide for people through life and culture.

Texts from different times can help us reflect on our mistakes from the past. Texts can also be guides to help us continue with something we perfected in the past.

“He knows he’s not supposed to be that guy. He’s a Democrat, he voted for Obama—but that doesn’t mean he’s comfortable having people of colour in his beautiful family.”

From this quote one can easily discuss the social issues addressed in this book, racism, and the problem with these "champagne democrats". Urban dictionary calls a champagne democrat: "A person who identifies themselves with the American left-wing political movement while hypocritically exhibiting financial and social behaviour to the contrary. Often found in affluent upper middle-class communities across the United States."

Example: "That Champagne Democrat would vote for John Kerry in the presidential elections, but ask for a tax write-off when making a negligible donation to charity.

Sounds like something Harris would do no? ^

When Cadence calls out her grandfather for being racist that is probably the most racist thing said in the book.  The book attempts to take a serious hold on racism and class issues but fails miserably, therefore it never truly deals with any issue at all.
The only way this book addresses racism is through extremely covert racism.

"Covert racism is racial discrimination that is concealed or subtle rather than obvious or public (Coates & Morrison, 2011).

- Acts to subvert, distort, restrict, and deny racial minorities access to societal privileges and benefits
- A key feature of covert racism is that its disguised nature allows perpetrators to claim "plausible deniability" and to essentially gaslight their victims, that is to deny that the act was racist and undermine any claim of harm
- May be implicit as a result of unconscious bias that exist within an individual, regardless of ill-will or any self-aware prejudices"

a very good article on covert racism:  https://www.beapplied.com/post/covert-racism-explanations-data-and-solutions

«We were liars really felt like they edited out all the exposition and context and left…. nothing good.» genuine review by reader @tobejaniefrank.

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It has to burn, it needs to burn, it is not good, it has become evil

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After Tipper's death, Clairmont becomes a symbol of greed. 

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After Tipper's death, Clairmont becomes a symbol of greed. 

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the destruction of the class difference

After Tipper's passing the house lacks the motherly/grandmotherly feeling. It lacks this warmth and tranquil feeling. Instead of being a symbol of openness and generosity it has become the opposite. Maybe Harris is showing his true colours because now it is a symbol of greed. It has lost every good emotion.
They tried to destroy Harris' power, however if there is one thing rich people are good at it is using their money to erase their past. Therefore the plan didn't work.

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“I wanted so much for us: a life free of constriction and prejudice. A life free to love and be loved. And here, I have killed them. My liars, my darlings. Killed them. My Mirren, my Johnny, my Gat.... here I am frozen when I deserve to burn.”

— Cadence

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Are the people you surround yourself with even real?

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Are the people you surround yourself with even real?

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Side Characters
Tipper: the grandmother, the matriarchy, the first domino that falls

Carrie Sinclair: Mother of Johnny and his little brother Will
Will Sinclair: Son of Carrie and William Dennis, "Stepson" to Ed
Ed Patil: With Carrie and uncle to Gat

Bess Sinclair: Mother to Mirren, twins Liberty and Bonnie, and Taft

Penny Sinclair: Mother to Cadence

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Gat is the character we mainly empathise with. He is the outsider, the underdog yet the fighter. Empathy can really affect how a person feels about a book. Because of the social and economic situation of the Sinclair family, someone may have a hard time empathising with them, especially people in a different social class.

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Cadence and Gat = A Wuthering Hights reference

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Cadence and Gat = A Wuthering Hights reference

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When Cadence said:

"Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound,
then from my eyes,
my ears,
my mouth. It tasted like failure."

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The "antagonist" of the story and the grandfather of the "Liars".
Married to Tipper
He is the Sinclair fortune
An overprotecting or manipulating paternal figure.
Providing summer homes for your loved ones might seem like a beneficent thing to do, but Harris turns Beechwood into a cruel game.
He makes everyone fight and argue in every single way. Whether its fighting about inheritance or what happens next year Harris has a finger in the game.

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Is family always the best for us, the healthiest, the safest?
No not always but it tries to be, when it can. The book is so focused around family, safety and the fact that nothing can harm you when family is around. However imagine being stuck with your family on an isolated island, yes private boats, houses, chefs all of that is great but you can go a bit stir-crazy.

Privilege and how it affects people in a more damaging way than one could realise.

Cadence and her family are all rich and living off Harris. Harris has three daughters, and even though he has done everything and anything to help them, guide them and try to make them independent, they never make their own fortune and continue feeding of his instead. At the same time, they are full of pride and discriminate the people that aren't like them An example that is not necessarily of the girls, however, from whom they learned their behavior is when Tipper says that it was "a nice surprise" to meet Ed even though she knew he was coming. Ed responds by asking with the "didn't Carrie tell you we were coming?" The privilege and the way they treat others only ends with their children dying.

The reality of our memories
We have sad and happy moments in our lives. Happy moments, we try to cherish and remember. When it is sad or upsetting moments, we try to forget and move on. By accepting that Cadence is an unreliable narrator the book is already affected the story and that means that as long as Cadance is our narrator the story is affected and her memory is not trustworthy. Cadence is not aware that she has forgotten something more important than she thought. She has forgotten a memory.
When we say that we have forgotten the memory, it is possible that we are avoiding it, like Cadence is. However, it seems as though instead of avoiding it, it seems as though her subconscious is trying to protect her. All tough Cadance is not avoiding a situation she is still affected by the sadness of something, and it almost kills her. When we avoid the situation, we might forget about the sadness, but it keeps haunting us in ways that are impossible to comprehend.

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We Were Liars focuses on the main theme of the consequences of one's mistakes. It is centered on the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family, who spend every summer sitting gathered on their private island. However, not every summer is the same—when something happens to Cadence during the summer of her fifteenth year, the four "Liars" (Cadence, Johnny, Gat and Mirren) re-emerge two years later to prompt Cadence to remember the incident.

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He is a prankster who loves to tease. "He is a bounce effort and snark" Cadence explains in the book.

Fair skin, light hair and light eyes.

He is the first Grandson and always gets what he wants. He's a prankster and never takes anything too seriously. Despite that he also has some key values and passions which makes him a realistic character to many.

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Can be considered a secondary location. Where Cadance lives during the school year.
She doesn't really like Burlington nor her home. She doesn't have any friends and she doesn't like her home. Her home feels cold and not homey. The home reminds her of all the terrible things that happened wither her father.
She feels like material things are useless and she decides to get rid of everything in her room. Yet the rest of the house is full of expensive things, art and so on.
Cadence feels like she is suffocating and all she wishes is that she could be on the island with Gat, Mirren and Johnny.

The house can be connected to the theme of privilege and how it affects people.
When Cadence feels the need to get rid of material things, she may be embracing Gat's words. She feels like she has too much, and others have nothing, so she wants to donate, return, and throw away everything she doesn't need. She feels like privilege is horrible and too much for her to handle.

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Irritable and bossy.
"'Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity and rain' Cadence commented on Mirren."

Fair skin, light eyes and light hair (Like all the Sinclairs)

She is the big sister to twins Bonnie and Liberty, and Taft.
She is very bossy yet protective of Cadence. She is a very kind and protective soul.

During summer 17 she sadly becomes sick and then Cadence starts to remember.

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Setting: Beechwood Island the main setting

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Setting: Beechwood Island the main setting

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The story takes place on the family island. The island is called Beechwood Island and is in Massachusetts.
It has four houses, a staff building and a boathouse, tennis courts and two beaches. The island setting is a huge part of the story. What would it be like for a group of cousins to spend every summer there, isolated from the rest of the world? Most stories set on isolated islands have some secrets, violent secrets. When Cadence
The Sinclair family owns it, and the book focuses on the summers there and this incident we hear about.

The tone of the setting itself tries to be content, perfect, and fine. However, readers may feel this sort of gloomy feeling throughout the book. Readers may not be able to shake the feeling no matter how hard Cadence tries to make the perfect seem real.

The setting of the island can symbolise exclusion and isolation. It can reflect on the privilege theme as to how they don't realise how much they have and yet they will make sure no one gets a piece of what they do have.

They don't want other people to join them, they want to pretend they better, nicer and more open than they actually are. The setting really helps focus on what the book is trying to tell us which is the world of white privilege and how it's so excluding. The author is smart by using an island as island can be used to explain themes about homogeneous communities and how they react to "outsiders" (Gat).

Sameness and difference, chaos and order, are themes that are highlighted thanks to the island. Even though these themes are not deeply explored they can still be considered themes to think about throughout the book, especially when the island is mentioned.

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Gat is a deep thinker who wants to change the world. He is the object of Cadence's desire

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Dark skin, brown eyes, brown hair

Ed's nephew

Candace looks at him like a possession she has to have.
Gat has always been curious of the Sinclairs.

He is the love interest of Cadence, yet it seems as though he is not really interested, he just likes the idea of a summer fling.
Cadence describes their love as an intense love story

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The storyteller and she is the main character. What we quickly learn is that Cadence is an unreliable storyteller because she tries to create this perfect image of her family, yet she fails. We only ever experience her emotions. She uses her first-person point of view, and this affects how readers perceive other characters. We must read from Cadence perspective because we need to use Cadence memory to remember.