short essay on Celia Behind Me
Summary of “Celia Behind Me” Elisabeth, who looks back on her childhood, tells the story. When she was nine year old she lived in the Canadian suburbs and went to school with a girl named Celia. ... Elisabeth was bullying Celia as well, especially when she and some of her classmates, walks home from school. Elisabeth’s mother had always told Elisabeth to be nice to Celia, and when she saw that Elisabeth was just as wicked as the other children, she warned Elisabeth that she would be looking after her. It troubled Elisabeth, cause she knew that if the children stopped harassing Celia they would turn towards her instead. ... When Elisabeth asked if she could have a piece, she was told that she can’t cause the other children suspected her of being friends with Celia, because she did not mock her anymore. Elisabeth was so angry for being pared up with Celia that she punched her on the way home that same day. ... Celia forgave Elisabeth and died in the age of seventeen. Section B: Celia and Elizabeth are not friends even though they share the fact than none of them are very high-positioned in the group of so-called friends they belong to. ... Elizabeth reacts to her position by desperately teasing Celia so that the focus is moved from herself to the diabetic Celia. ... It comes to show in the way the parents for instance react to Elizabeths cruelty towards Celia, that Celia and Elizabeth have known each other from very early on in their lives. But it seems, since the narrator is actually an older Elizabeth, as if she has never liked Celia.