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Jazzy Journal- The Girl who Drank the Moon

 Dear Kelly Barnhill,

    The word sacrifice is such a powerful word and used through out you book "The Girl Who Drank the Moon". The word sacrifice can mean so much to so many people as we have differnet experience with it. The way you used sacrifice in the book it had a lot more to it then just a theme. First with the sacrifice of the baby is away that a mother would feel giving up a child for abortion. There is so many young adults that have gone through that experieence that I wonder if you wrote that knowing that people would have that connection. The second aspect I thought about was what sacrifices did you personally have to make to where you could put them into this story. Like was there a time where you had to give up a baby, and you knew how to take that sacrifice and turn it into a story. The thrid way I think you included it was becuase our life is a constant battle of sacrificing things that we want vs what we need. This word has so much behind it that we don't even have the basic knowlesge about it. Which lead me into my last theroy of why you choose sacrifice which was you wanted to normalize it and make it not such a scary thing. Having it be in a story and read about and even talked about makes it feel more normal for people. There is so many things our society says we should not talk about because it its not "normal". Your story is changed that and made it more normal. It tells the reader that is ok to face things you have sacarficed and wonder why and question it. It also helps reader be able to connect and have simial stoires of what it really feel liks as to many people say get over it. To wrap things up I would only have a couple more questions for you. First was there any sacrifice that you were going through when writting this book that made you make it such a focus in the book or was it from a past sacrifice? The second one is if there was a differnt emotion you could have choose what would it be and how would it have changed the story line?




      Lauren 

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