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Hannah's Independence From Society

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The word independence is important because Hannah was a very independent person as she always kept her feelings and emotions to herself. This is important because the feelings and emotions that no one knew about, took over her. “In the hallways at school, you tired catching my eye but I always looked away.” (pg. 217) Hannah’s independence gave her a hard time to connect and open up to people. Hannah also did not have a lot of friends because of the rumours about her which made people stay away from her or treat her wrong. Hence, her dark thoughts slowly took over her because no one cared enough to talk to her. Therefore, independence is important to this novel because Hannah’s independence caused her to be isolated from society because no one

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