A. The book the Clique was written in the eyes of Claire Lyons. In the book Claire basically explained how she moved to Westchester and moved into a rich snobs guest house, Massie. She describes how Massie ruins her life and tortures her during and outside of school. She tries to stand up to her fear and tell Massie no and stick up for herself. Sometimes it works and most of the time it doesn't.
B. Me, being the reader, I felt that the book made me feel that Massie actually cared and liked Claire. For instance, it was the night of Massie's annual fundraiser for her school and Claire's and Massie's parents got on stage and called them to the stage. Massie helped Claire find them a hiding spot so that they could get out of having to be embarrassed by their parents. But there are other times where I feel like Massie hates Claire's guts. For example, it has only been a few days that Claire has been living with Massie, and it was the first day of school. At this point Massie hasn't really gotten to know Claire and what she is really like, but Massie assumed that Claire was a LBR--loser beyond repair--so Massie thought it would be funny to ruin Claire's life and hope that it would make the Lyons move out of their guest house faster. Claire was wearing white pants, so Massie thought it would be funny to order her friend to "accidentally" spill red paint on the back of her pants so it would like Claire got her period. Now if I was Massie, I would at least try to help Claire and help her become a friend of Massie, but Massie does the total opposite and messes Claire's life up.
C. If the book was told in the eyes of Massie, I feel like it would be more about how she tortures Claire instead of how Claire gets tortured. Massie is a totally different person so it would be a totally different point of view. Massie has the personality of what she is.. a snob, but Claire has the personality that a regular person should and would have, therefore I think that the story would be different.
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