Summary:
Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies — Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Hélène identifies strongly with Jane’s tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this wonderful book, she is able to ignore her tormentors. But when Hélène is humiliated on a class trip in front of her entire grade, she needs more than a fictional character to allow her to see herself as a person deserving of laughter and friendship.
Leaving the outcasts’ tent one night, Hélène encounters a fox, a beautiful creature with whom she shares a moment of connection. But when Suzanne Lipsky frightens the fox away, insisting that it must be rabid, Hélène’s despair becomes even more pronounced: now she believes that only a diseased and dangerous creature would ever voluntarily approach her. But then a new girl joins the outcasts’ circle, Géraldine, who does not even appear to notice that she is in danger of becoming an outcast herself. And before long Hélène realizes that the less time she spends worrying about what the other girls say is wrong with her, the more able she is to believe that there is nothing wrong at all.
This emotionally honest and visually stunning graphic novel reveals the casual brutality of which children are capable, but also assures readers that redemption can be found through connecting with another, whether the other is a friend, a fictional character or even, amazingly, a fox.
Leaving the outcasts’ tent one night, Hélène encounters a fox, a beautiful creature with whom she shares a moment of connection. But when Suzanne Lipsky frightens the fox away, insisting that it must be rabid, Hélène’s despair becomes even more pronounced: now she believes that only a diseased and dangerous creature would ever voluntarily approach her. But then a new girl joins the outcasts’ circle, Géraldine, who does not even appear to notice that she is in danger of becoming an outcast herself. And before long Hélène realizes that the less time she spends worrying about what the other girls say is wrong with her, the more able she is to believe that there is nothing wrong at all.
This emotionally honest and visually stunning graphic novel reveals the casual brutality of which children are capable, but also assures readers that redemption can be found through connecting with another, whether the other is a friend, a fictional character or even, amazingly, a fox.
My Thoughts:
I'm not going to lie, I loved this book. Everything about this story was just plain beautiful, the writing, the pictures and the characters. This book deals with some serious topics such as bullying, self confidence and weight issues. This books centres around the main character Hélène. She is bullied for being bigger than the other girls and has been tormented all her life for this and other reasons by the people at her school.
In this story the art work was truly amazing, I don't know why but I imagine Hélène herself drawing these pictures. The way the characters were shaded was really amazing. I found the setting that was drawn was very impressive. I also liked that they only coloured in certain parts of this story and the characters in it.
The cover of the book is extremely beautiful and I loved that the title of the story was pictured onto the book. I loved the way the leaves were on the background. The grey in the background really allowed everything on the page to be enhanced and beautified.
I loved how Jane was such an inspiration to her and that helped build the plot and the story and i thought this made it truly beautiful, everything about this book I loved. I hope that people who are going through a similar thing like Hélène will grow and build.
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