Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Notes for Liars - Chapters 16-25

Chapter 16
·      Cadence starts by talking about when she was eight and her dad gave her some books for Christmas.

·      She started writing a story about a King who had three daughters. He asked his three daughters how much they loved him. The youngest said that she loved him as meat loves salt. He was upset and put her out of the house. She became a very good cook and had a job cooking at an inn. Years later, the oldest daughter was getting married and they were eating at the inn. She cooked a pig without salt, and the King was upset.  When she said to him that he put his youngest daughter out of the house for saying that she loved him as meat loves salt, he knew who she was. She became his favorite daughter and ended up taking care of him. She realized that he is sick in the head, but she stays with him anyway. She is not sure whether she stays with him because she loves him or because he has promised her the Kingdom.

Chapter 17
·      The fall after Cadence’s trip to Europe with her father, she made a project to give something of hers away every day. She said that for the old people in her family, the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Cadence does not like pretty things anymore.

·      Cadence’s mother has a house full of beautiful things. Cadence gave her pillow away to a beggar. She gave her copy of King Lear to the public library. She even gave away a picture frame with a picture of her dead grandmother. Her mother is upset that she is giving everything away.

Chapter 18
·      The fall after Cadence’s trip to Europe with her father, she made a project to give something of hers away every day. She said that for the old people in her family, the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Cadence does not like pretty things anymore.

·      Cadence was upset that she could not remember the accident or the rest of summer fifteen. She kept asking her mother about the rest of the summer, and her mother would tell what happened. The next day, she would not remember and ask her mother again.  Her mother told her that she had to stop asking because the doctors said that it would be better for her to remember on her own. Cadence made her mother tell her one more time, and she wrote it down so that she would not have to ask every day.




Chapter 19
·      Cadence’s father is planning to take her to Australia and New Zealand for the whole summer seventeen. She wants to go to Beechwood Island.  She wanted to remember her accident and know why Gat disappeared. She wondered if he really loved her.

·      Granddad came to Burlington to visit. He had not been since before Granny Tipper died. Granddad has lost weight. He is looking older now. He picked three flowers in the back yard and gave them to Cadence because she was his first grandchild. He finally realized that her hair was not blond any more. She told him that she colored it.

Chapter 20
·      Cadence wrote another story about a king who had three daughters. When they were old enough to get married, a dragon started to kill the people in the kingdom. The king promised one of his daughters to the person who could kill the dragon. Nobody could. The king sent his oldest daughter to the dragon to ask for mercy. The dragon ate her. He sent his second daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, and the dragon ate her. Finally, he sent his youngest daughter to beg for mercy, and the dragon ate her too. Cadence asked at the end, who killed the daughters, the dragon or the king.

·      After Granddad leaves, Cadence’s mother calls and cancels the Australia trip. The finally decided that Cadence would go to Beechwood for four weeks, and then visit her dad.

Chapter 21
·      Cadence said that her room is nearly empty now. She has given just about everything away. One thing that she could not give away was Gat’s hunting jacket that he let her wear.

Chapter 22
·      The night before they left to go to Beechwood, her younger cousin Taft called and asked Cadence if she was a drug addict.




Chapter 23
·      When they met her aunt Carrie at the boat, Cadence is joking about drinking alcohol and taking pills. On the boat, Cadence is thinking to herself that she will see Gat soon.

·      When she can see island, she notices that the house Clairmont is gone, and there is a new house there. Cadence did not realize that Granddad had torn the old house down. Cadence was sad because a big tree was gone. Her mother told her to be normal, because she could

·      Cadence sees that rest of the liars came to meet her. She sees Mirren, Johnny, and Gat

Chapter 24
·      The Liars don’t come to the dock when the boat pulls in, only the littles. The Liars will have the Cuddledown house to themselves. Gat makes some hot tea.

·      Cadence and her mother walk to Windmere. Granddad and Aunt Bess are in the kitchen. Granddad has started calling people Mirren who are not Mirren.

·      Bonnie told Cadence that with her hair black, she looks like a vampire.

Chapter 25
·      Cadence and her mother were unpacking. She left her bag and went to look for the Liars.  Suddenly, she found them.

·      Cadence thought that Gat was so beautiful. She said that she was angry and so happy to see him. She has grown and is about as tall as Gat now.

·      Johnny asked her about college, and Cadence told her that she did not graduate because she missed too much school. Mirren says that she has a boyfriend.


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