Blog post # 7

SPOILER ALERT

     Lately I have read the Pretty Little Liar series. To sum up the series, they are about four girls who used to be bestfriends. In Grade 8, their other bestfriend, Ali, went missing, and has not been found since. Once the four girls (Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily) lose Ali, they begin to lose touch with one another until they all have new friends and lifes. Now, five years later, each of the four girls begins recieving strange blackmail messages from someone named A. They begin to assume that this mysterious A character could indeed be their old friend Ali who has been missing all these years. I mean, who else would know all of their personal sercrets? Hanna has made a new friend, Mona, over the years, and now they are very close. Hanna and Mona tell eachother everything, even about the blackmailing. No one ever would have suspected Mona to be the blackmailer, but she was. Mona is an example of a Shapeshifter archetype. First off, she plays with the four girls emotion's by blackmailing them, adding a tist to the story. Second, Mona pretends to be close to Hanna She acts like she cares about her, but all the while Mona is using Hanna's sercrets about the girls to send blackmail messages. Mona seems like a great friend at first, but ends up doing horrible things to each of the girls. These traits demonstrate many qualities you can find within The Shapeshifter archetype.
      At the beginning of the book, Unbelivable, Mona acts like a friend, going on shopping trips with Hanna, and giving Hanna a shoulder to cry on. By the end of this book though, Mona admits to being the blackmailer.
     "I know what four did. I know what I saw. And I. Will. Never. Forget. "
Mona's mouth dripped into an eerie smile. "This summer, I found a way to get back at you girls. I found Ali's diary. I knew instantly-and she wrote tons of secrets about you. Really damaging ones, actually. It's like she wanted the diary to fall into enemy hands."
     After reading this quote, we find out Mona has been pretending to be nice all along, when she is truely two faced, just like a shapeshifter.