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//Split Image// Copyright 2000By Mel Glenn Harpercollins Publishers

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//Split Image// by Mel Glenn is a story written in all poems about one young girl and her lack of freedom to choose her own identity. The young girl's name is Laura Li and she struggles with who she really is and how others see her. Through letters from her family, friends, and classmates you are able to see how others view Laura Li. She just wants to get away and she does sometimes after midnight as she sneaks off to dance at the clubs. She would love for her father to take her with him as he travels with work but he doesn't, she is under a lot of pressure from her mother who she has no realtionship with and she has the responsibilities of taking care of her ill brother. At school she works in the library and is friends to many. They see her from everything as perfect, conceited, and shy. Laura Li is somewhat fighting a battle with herself. She finally bails under pressure and sees a way out by taking her own life.

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