EINTY Lydia character development by Ryker Shin https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo en-us 2022-10-26 19:59:47 UTC 2025-10-24 21:18:11 UTC hello@padlet.com Lydia is their parents favorite child rykershin https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2357942275 “But Lydia, defying genetics, somehow has her mother’s blue eyes, and they know this is one more reason she is their mothers favorite. And their father’s too.” (Ng 3)]]> 2022-10-26 20:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2357942275 Conclusion after investigating by officer fiske, Lydia doesn’t have friends. rykershin https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2357963133 “We’ve talked to a number of Lydia’s classmates and teachers as well. From what we can tell, she didn’t have many friends.” (Ng 110)


]]> 2022-10-26 20:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2357963133 Lydia is very sneaky kydenng1_1 https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2360991464 “While her father locked himself in his office and Nath bent his head over the encyclopedia, she would go into the kitchen and take it down from the counter.” (Ng 135-136)


]]> 2022-10-28 18:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2360991464 Lydia and Nath are very smart. Lydia is able to partly read at the age of 5. kydenng1_1 https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2360997956 “At five, she could already read some—though not nearly enough as well as Nath—and she sounded out the recipes.” (Ng 136)



]]> 2022-10-28 18:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2360997956 Lydia hid a lot of her life from her parents rykershin https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2361005880 “Marilyn works her hand inside and pulls out an open package of Marlboros. And beneath that, she finds something else: an open box of condoms.” (Ng 119)


]]> 2022-10-28 18:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2361005880 May 3 1977, Lydia death rykershin https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2361013434 2022-10-28 18:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2361013434 Lydia is the problem because she doesn’t know how to swim. kolekawabata2 https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2361018817 “You know Lydia doesn’t know how, he said I’m not ready to play lifeguard today” (Ng 128)

]]> 2022-10-28 18:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2361018817 Marilyn is missing May 1966 rykershin https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2361023652 2022-10-28 18:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2361023652 Lydia makes a promise to herself to do what her mother says if she comes back rykershin https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2361029278 “If her mother ever came home and told her to finish her milk, she though, the page wavering to a blur, she would finish her milk.” (Ng 137)]]> 2022-10-28 18:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2361029278 Lydia refuses to go to swimming class at age three kolekawabata2 https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2361035952 “Lydia refused, refused, to take swim classes at the Y.” (Ng 24)]]> 2022-10-28 18:59:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2361035952 WHY the character is important to the novel as a whole. kolekawabata2 https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2367281948 If Lydia didn’t die there would be no conflict and there would be no reason to find out why and how she died. If Lydia didn’t die, then things like James cheating and the conflict between Nath and Jack wouldn’t have happened.

]]> 2022-11-02 19:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2367281948 WHY it is so important to understand the character’s past in order to understand his or her present. kydenng1_1 https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2367300074 Backstories help the reader understand character motivation and key plot points. Without this readers won't develop an emotional connection to them. It’s also important because we need to know why she would have drowned herself or if she had people that would want to kill her.]]> 2022-11-02 19:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rykershin/d9g5p7riuggx3ppo/wish/2367300074