Critical Analysis of Haunted Sister
Critical Analysis of "Haunted Sister"
This story is based on a girl named Janine Palmer and her dead twin sister Lenore. Janine was in a terrible car accident; in the process her dead twin sister Lenore has inhabited Janine’s body with Janine in it. Lenore believes that her twin sister Janine is the reason she is dead so Lenore has come back to try and have the life she believes was stolen from her. Lenore is trying to have a life inside Janine’s body, being able to date guys and doing what she chooses forgetting that it is Janine’s body and Janine’s life not Lenore’s. In the meanwhile Janine hates the fact her dead twin sister is trying to share her body and life and is trying to get rid of her as soon as possible. Janine tells her little brother, William and his friend Anna Mae that Lenore is inside of her but that didn’t help she tried to tell her parents but she knew that they wouldn’t believe her.
This story is based on a young girl names Janine Palmer, she was in a horrible car accident, which nearly lead her to death. While she was in her near fatal experience, her dead twin sister encounters Janine and returns with Janine to the real world, in Janine’s body. Janine’s life was spared because it wasn’t Janine’s time to leave; yet Lenore sneaks back in Janine’s body. Through this story Janine is being over-concerned by her twin sister Lenore. Lenore is trying to take over Janine’s life, slowly yet surely Lenore was gaining more power over Janine.
-“I couldn’t stop Lenore.” Page 196
-“Lenore you don’t even know what your promising.” Page 134
In this story Lenore is the antagonist in this story because she’s trying to take over Janine’s life, believing that Janine is the reason Lenore dies all those years ago. And now she believes she deserves her part to have a real life; a life she’s missed out on all those years. Lenore is the daring twin she made Janine do things that Janine didn’t want to do, such as take her mothers car, steal the bracelet and go out on dates with Rafe.
–“ Lenore, I screamed. Lenore, you don’t know how to drive a car.” Page 197
-“Startled, I watched it reach out, pick up the blue...