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Varada S. Drowning Anna by Sue Mayfield December 9th, 2011 Pages 63-123

In the second part of Drowning Anna, bullying becomes a bigger part of the story. After reading this part I can tell that this book is intended for people thirteen and above so basically teenagers. I infered this because some of the language isn't what adults think kids younger than thirteen should be reading. Also some of the things that happen in the story might not be meant for people younger than thirteen because they might get scared or something. So far the book hasn't been too scarring but just imagining what Anna must have been going through is sad. In the second part mainly what happens is that Anna's best friend Hayley turns on her and makes Anna's life miserable.Basically at the beginning of the novel, Anna moves to the north of England where she befriends Hayley this popular but mean girl. Hayley has been known to drop friends but never the way she dropped Anna. At the beginning her main way to torture is by ignoring or snickering at Anna. Later on she develops new tactics such as mean notes and remarks and eventually it leads to violence. Basically, every new form of bullying adds to the rising action till the climax which I haven't got to yet. At the beginning of the novel, Anna goes home and commits suicide but her mother finds her just before she dies and throughout the duration of the novel she is in the hospital while her previous struggles are revealed through her mother reading her diary and through her best friend Melanie telling the reader what happened to make her commit suicide. Like last time, this novel has really captured my interest and even though it's a little scarring I can't wait to read the next part...