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The Next Superhero: Juliette Ferrars

This thriller novel, Shatter Me is written by Tahereh Mafi. Infact, this is the first book she has written that is a part of trilogy. The writing style of the book was quite different compared to other books like The Fault In Our Stars, Hunger Games, Divergent, and so on because the narrator, Juliette Ferrars, has many thoughts in her head that she did not feel comfortable saying out loud. Due to this reasoning, the book contained many strikethroughs to symbolize her unspoken thoughts that were a combination of negativity. For instance, on the cover, it says “ MY TOUCH IS LETHAL. MY TOUCH IS POWERFUL.” By reading those two simple sentences you are able to understand how Juliette actually feels about herself. …show more content…

However, the main protagonist is Juliette Ferrars. It was really hard to pinpoint how Juliette looks like because she has never talked about her appearance. Infact, she does not even know how she looks like. In the novel, it mentions that the last time she saw her appearance was when she was very young. However, many characters describe her as “pulchritudinous”(Mafi,157) which basically means she is gorgeous and breathtaking. Juliette has long brown hair and has a mixture of blue and green eyes that look like the sea on a nice breezy day. She is a 17 year old girl who is extremely brave, even though she is facing many adversities that are incredibly cruel. The main adversity that she is facing is people. Since she was little, almost all of the mortals she faced refer to her as crazy or, are terrified and disgusted by her. The main reason why they are scared and disgusted by her is because she has “super powers”. The super powers that she has are lethal touch and super strength. Juliette is able to kill people by simply touching them and has the ability to punch through concrete and steel. One day, when Juliette was fourteen years old she accidently killed a young boy; by simply touching his hand to …show more content…

Everyone accused that she strangled the little boy to death and because of this Juliette had to be locked up in the asylum for 264 days. Due to this cause, her relationships with her parents Evelyn Ferrars (mother) and Eric Ferrars (father), drifted as they were humiliated by having an unordinary child like everyone else. Juliette was forced to act like all the other kids and be normal. Mostly everyone in her society only saw her flaws and did not notice the kind person she truly is. For example, in seventh grade, an acquaintance of Juliette named “Shelly Morrison got caught cheating on her math test. She screamed that if she failed her dad will kill her. Juliette told the teacher she was the only one cheating of her test and she ended up getting a zero on the exam, and detention for a week.” (Mafi,157) by reading that line one can strongly agree that Juliette is far from evil infact, she is the opposite as she has many qualities that our society classifies as a good person that is not haughty. In this novel, Juliette was able to build affections with various characters. The main two people Juliette was able to make connections with were Adam Kent and Aaron Warner. Juliette developed bitterness towards Aaron Warner for many reasons. However, the main reason was because

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