* THE FAT GIRL *

The Fat Girl

The Fat Girl is a realistic story that many can relate to. The characters, especially Louise, have a lot of depth to them. What I found so appealing about the story is that Louise, the main character, had never lost her true identity. Even when she transformed into a slim and slender woman, her personality did not change her intricate character. Through thin and thin, Louise’s identity had always stayed the same even when she gained a new persona from her weight lost.

Louise’s weight problems started when she was only nine years old. At that young of an age, it is very hard to lose weight because the habit of over-eating is already forged into the body. Louise, like most people with weight problems, always felt insecure about themselves. These people would often rely on their metabolism to help them get into shape. But when they realize their metabolism is not high enough to withstand the amount of calories being inputted, it will all be too late. Louise’s mother, who only shows love to Louise if she is skinny, mentioned that Louise had her high metabolism, but Louise’s mother wasn’t aware of her daughter’s nasty habit of eating food in the dark. The food consumed her soul, entrapping her body into a cage of mistreatments, and it didn’t stop until she went to college and met Carrie, her savior.

In college, Carrie displayed a series of trust and acceptance to Louise’s beastly habit of eating in the dark; so when Carrie proposed Louise to go on a diet for her own sake, Louise didn’t turn down the offer. Soon enough when Louise lost all the weight she pledged to lose, not only have she forgotten what it was like to be obese, she had also gain a new personality. This new personality that developed overtime from her new body was also a cause from doing things she never could when she was fat. She could then fit into a new line of slim clothes, talk to her mother more comfortably, and have more friends.

All of these new things were overwhelming for Louise, but soon she realized that her true identity could not have been forgotten. She have longed for fatty foods, and with Carrie gone, the inspiration for staying healthy was no longer there. Her new personality came to a halt and she became her old enjoyable self again.

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