The protagonist, in Dark Secrets Don’t Tell by Elizabeth Chandler, is named Lauren. In the beginning she is ten years old when her mother dies drowning in the lake you could say that she was as scared as a prairie dog. At that same time she feels a chill running down her spine. She has dark hair she is like any other teen age girl in the world. The only thing that changes her from the other girls is that she has to deal with her mother death at only age ten. That isn’t the only think she has to deal with in her life. The main character can change the story in a slit second first it is related to one book then bam it changes to another. But her story is very similar to another one.
Coupled with Holly is a tricky person because you look at her and she smiles like an angel but that changes what truly is underneath that smile. She is kind of insecure so when she finds out people are watching her and the flirt of the town Nick starts to like Lauren more and more but is glued to Holly she freaks out. Nora—Aunt Jule’s other daughter—is silent and spooky that doesn’t help the problem anymore. Nora stares at Lauren with frightening intensity. She feels like she is ten again. How can she trust anyone when everyone looks like they want her dead!
Furthermore there are many stories a lot like Laurens, let’s say Harry Potter. Everyone knows his story how he has a dark lord trying to kill him and he already killed his mother and farther. There is one big difference in their stories, Harry knows who is trying to kill him and he tries to fight back and kill the Dark Lord. On the other hand Lauren has no idea who killed her mother and she is just trying to run away from the danger and not face it.
In addition what causes Lauren to act this way is all because of Holly except she doesn’t know that it was Holly that killed her mother. In Harry Potter it has the same cause and effect, where Harry finds out who killed his parents then when he gets older he goes on kind of a blood lust and wants to get revenge. There are many differences in the two main characters and how they act but there are even more similar actions and thoughts.
Likewise the two stories are very similar and basically the same story just different setting and main characters. One more thing to add Harry had an entire castle on his side when Lauren just had one guy that suspected something was wrong. There are many stories that can be so similar and yet there are stories that can be so different. Sometimes you may find a story that is almost exactly like onther.
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