Stick Figure Book Report
Stick Figure
The book which I will be talking about, is an autobiography, Stick Figure, written by Lori Gottlieb. The setting of this book is Beverly Hills, in the year of 1978.
The main character, Lori is an intelligent eleven year old girl. She is surrounded by people who live a lifestyle on being rich, doing diets and trying to be thin and surrounded by messages of the
“perfect body” for women. Every female she comes across, from peer to adult, is on a diet, counts calories, avoids desserts and gossips about other women. In the beginning, she does not care any of that and lives to enjoy her childhood. However, when her mother starts telling her to be more lady-like, her mind …show more content…
Her parents become worried and send her to doctors. The thought of becoming anorexic is put in many young aged people because of the idea to be skinny. Anorexia is a physical and a mental condition. It’s when one thinks they need to be skinny and hurt themselves physically.
Part 3- Summer 1987: Lori gets hospitalized and becomes much more depressed. She looks in the mirror and sees herself as a stick figure. She is sent to the hospital because she refused to eat and often had health problems. At the hospital, the doctors thought her condition would get better, but it only became worse. She got depressed and became suicidal.
Part 4: At the end of the book, Lori is taken out of the hospital. She looks in the mirror and sees an ugly, stick figure looking back at her. This is a major turning point because she realizes that being totally different is alright and she doesn’t have to be stick thin in order to gain her beauty. In the end, she overcomes anorexia nervosa and is an anorexia survivor.
Quotations: -“If you have high metabolism, you can eat a lot and will not gain as much weight as a person with slow metabolism.” (Gottlieb 93)
-”An eleven year old girl needs 2000 calories per day to grow at a healthy rate.” (Gottlieb …show more content…
Gottlieb is dead-on about society's irrational attitudes toward women's bodies; in fact, her sincere attempt to make sense of those misguided, illogical attitudes leads to the logic of this condition. She struggles to make sense of the following social truths, which she has learned from her mother :"If you're a woman, you're supposed to try to look like a girl with a 'girlish figure.' But if you're a girl, you're supposed to act like a woman by not being 'spirited.' This book gives a good message against the tag of “being physically perfect” put on women. It also shows how affected someone can get easily by media, their surroundings and peers, just the way Lori
The book which I will be talking about, is an autobiography, Stick Figure, written by Lori Gottlieb. The setting of this book is Beverly Hills, in the year of 1978.
The main character, Lori is an intelligent eleven year old girl. She is surrounded by people who live a lifestyle on being rich, doing diets and trying to be thin and surrounded by messages of the
“perfect body” for women. Every female she comes across, from peer to adult, is on a diet, counts calories, avoids desserts and gossips about other women. In the beginning, she does not care any of that and lives to enjoy her childhood. However, when her mother starts telling her to be more lady-like, her mind …show more content…
Her parents become worried and send her to doctors. The thought of becoming anorexic is put in many young aged people because of the idea to be skinny. Anorexia is a physical and a mental condition. It’s when one thinks they need to be skinny and hurt themselves physically.
Part 3- Summer 1987: Lori gets hospitalized and becomes much more depressed. She looks in the mirror and sees herself as a stick figure. She is sent to the hospital because she refused to eat and often had health problems. At the hospital, the doctors thought her condition would get better, but it only became worse. She got depressed and became suicidal.
Part 4: At the end of the book, Lori is taken out of the hospital. She looks in the mirror and sees an ugly, stick figure looking back at her. This is a major turning point because she realizes that being totally different is alright and she doesn’t have to be stick thin in order to gain her beauty. In the end, she overcomes anorexia nervosa and is an anorexia survivor.
Quotations: -“If you have high metabolism, you can eat a lot and will not gain as much weight as a person with slow metabolism.” (Gottlieb 93)
-”An eleven year old girl needs 2000 calories per day to grow at a healthy rate.” (Gottlieb …show more content…
Gottlieb is dead-on about society's irrational attitudes toward women's bodies; in fact, her sincere attempt to make sense of those misguided, illogical attitudes leads to the logic of this condition. She struggles to make sense of the following social truths, which she has learned from her mother :"If you're a woman, you're supposed to try to look like a girl with a 'girlish figure.' But if you're a girl, you're supposed to act like a woman by not being 'spirited.' This book gives a good message against the tag of “being physically perfect” put on women. It also shows how affected someone can get easily by media, their surroundings and peers, just the way Lori