This week, I started reading my book and it is called "The best little girl in the world."
I read through first chapter of this book.
The main character of this book is the girl named Francesca who does gymnastics. One day, her teacher told her that she got to lose her weight little bit more and Francesca took it too seriously. She created this imaginary girl who named Kessa and this imaginary girl Kessa is metally really strong not to eat.In the first chapter how Francesca started not to eat was written.
I look forward to hearing about this book. It seems that gymnasts (usually girls, but sometimes boys too) are especially vulnerable to anorexia because of the pressures on them to stay thin. The novel you chose sounds interesting in that it helps us understand this eating disorder from inside the head of someone who suffers from it. That's the value of novels. They can help us to get a "ring-side seat" in the suffering or joys of others. Reading about things in newspaper articles or in impartial academic papers may help us to understand things intellectually and practically, but novels help us get an emotional understanding.
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