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Post by lordhowl on May 16, 2010 16:03:53 GMT -5
It occurred to me thinking about that line how much the sisters, or at least Ginger, really craved friends and recognition, but they did not want to compromise themselves or their friendship. The possibility was crushed when Mr. Wayne declared their slide show sickening, but Ginger looked happy that Jason gave it recognition.
As I see it, Ginger and Brigitte were showing each other their love in that slide show, with some humor. I mean, they have an oath to die together, and with those pictures, they were showing how much they weren't afraid of death, and how fun it actually was if it meant they would be "together forever."
Fact is, their slide show wasn't nearly as morbid as it first appears. You could see joy in it. I think what gave them the fixation with death was their oath.
So, they naively felt no fear in showing it to the class, well, Brigitte was apprehensive.
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Post by sophielovessam on May 31, 2010 16:15:38 GMT -5
When they said they'd be 'together forever' where do you think they thought they were gonna go?
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Post by lordhowl on May 31, 2010 16:45:45 GMT -5
When they said they'd be 'together forever' where do you think they thought they were gonna go? Well, the sisters did not appear to be religious, at least in any traditional sense. I think they just had a romantics' paradise in mind. I'll put it like this, though: I don't think they ever worked out that idea. I think that the point of the slide show was to depict their undying devotion to each other. I have to add, they made the oath when they were eight, but an eight year old does not think like a sixteen year old. "Out by sixteen" would not have meant that they hated their parents or they hated their surroundings as they did later. "Out by sixteen" would have meant that they had become elite, that they gained their independence early. "Dead in the scene" would have been more of a motivator to become elite. Sixteen for an eight year old is a whole other lifetime away. They put the "suicide pact" part, literally, forever away. But they were getting to that age they once could not imagine, sixteen, and the pact was calling on them to commit suicide. Plus, they weren't elite, child geniuses, and they had to have felt failure over that.
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Post by sophielovessam on May 31, 2010 17:35:55 GMT -5
yeah, but I think they both were like really, really smart but just not in the sense of like getting A's.
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Post by lordhowl on May 31, 2010 18:04:46 GMT -5
yeah, but I think they both were like really, really smart but just not in the sense of like getting A's. Brigitte was smart, and Ginger wasn't dumb. The point is, though, their pact was supposed to make them elite. They weren't aiming at ordinary.
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