Blog Post #4~ Making Connetions

    Emma had to read the Facebook message four times before the words really sunk in." OMG. I can't believe this. Yes, I was totally adopted. But I never you existed until now. Can u meet me at the hiking base of Sabino Canyon in Tuscon 2morro at 6 PM? Attached is my cell number. Don't tell anyone who you are until we talk-- it's dangerous! See you soon! ~Love, Sutton (your twin)"  (Sara Shepard, The Lying Game 37&38) Of course, there was only one problem with that note: I didn't write it.
    
     The book I am reading is called 'The Lying Game' by Sara Shepard. The main characters are Emma Paxton and Sutton Mercer. Emma had been tossed around between different foster homes since she was five years old and her mother abandoned her, but Sutton was adopted from birth and lives with a loving mother, father and sister. They have never met each other and they never will, but they are long-lost twins. 
     One of the main events that happens is that Emma's foster brother Travis stole $250  for drugs from his mother and made it seem like Emma had stolen it. For proof that she stole it and that she is a liar, he showed his mother and Emma a video of someone who looks exactly like her getting strangled to death. He teased her that it was her long-lost twin. Later that night she went and searched Sutton Mercer on Facebook and there she was, her profile picture looking exactly like Emma. Emma messaged her saying she thought they were twins. 
     The only problem is that when 'Sutton' answered, she was actually dead and had been for several hours and following Emma around since that morning. So Emma is going to meet who she thinks in Sutton at Sabino Canyon, just like it said in the message. What she finds is going to definitely surprise her. 
      This quotation connects to real life in a way because sometimes there is a time in our life where we have someone that tries to follow us around or tries to take over someone else's life. What I actually wanted to connect this to, is the movie 'The Roomate" . In this movie, Sara Matthews (Minka Kelly) goes off to college and her rommate is Rebecca Evans (Leighton Meester). Rebecca is obsessed with the fact that she is friends with her roomate, because she was never popular in school and didn't have many friends. She sees that Sara is starting to make more friends and she gets a boyfriend that she spends more time with than she does with Rebecca. Rebecca gets really jealous and tries to push people against Sara. She was so jealous that she tried to turn herself into Sara and steal everything of Sara's and then  tries to get rid of it all. She tries to kill Sara's boyfriend. In the end, Sara finds out that Rebecca was trying tot ake over her and realizes that she is crazy and then Sara kills Rebecca because Rebecca was psycho. This relates to 'The Lying Game' because Sutton was killed for someone thinking she was Emma. So pretty much the message between both of these topics is never to impersonate somebody because something bad could happen to either one of you. This is how the two topics are related.