It's about unrequited love and unfulfilled longings. The things that Jess does are motivated by a combination of all these feelings.Ī Line in the Dark is a psychological thriller. Sometimes they spill out of her into her artwork sometimes they spill out of her in arguments with her best friend. Jess, the main character of A Line in the Dark, feels all these things, and as a 16-year-old still discovering who she is, she struggles to contain all these emotions. I think that meanness can come across as shallow and spiteful (and sometimes it is, perhaps in its truest sense), but it's also defensive and used as a shield to hide softer, more vulnerable feelings. I don't know about you, but when I was a teen girl, meanness was wielded as a weapon against me more than once - and I used it back, too. What I mean, of course, is that this book contains anger, obsession, jealousy, and complicated shifting identities that sometimes are expressed by meanness. I might argue with "mean girls" in its most stereotypical sense, but to be honest, there are some mean girls in A Line in the Dark.
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