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Exclusive Interview with Alison DiLaurentis An Indside Scoop on the new hit single Secret
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February 2012 Issue - Simrat Sidhu
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f you’ve been to small town Rosewood in the past 4 years, chances are you’ve seen Alison DiLaurentis. Alison is a beautiful young successful girl. She plays on the Rosewood field hockey team and scores top grades among her grade. She surrounds herself with loving friends and family. Alison is often referred to as Ali, has luscious long blond hair, which she maintains in big bouncy curls. Her skin fair as a baby’s in a Johnson’s television commercial. Ali is the ‘it’ girl of Rosewood and she seems perfectly flawless but is there more to her than you see? I am very fortunate to interview
Q: So there are these rumors circulating Rosewood that you had a fling with Toby Cavanagh? Is this true? A: No this is absolutely wrong! I do not think I can truly express the hatred I have for him. So why would anybody think that I had a fling with Toby Cavanagh? I really just do not understand why people think such horrid things?
Q: Allison, why are you so critical about Hanna’s weight? A: Who said I was critical? I was just making her try to understand how her losing weight would really enhance your lifestyle. I never tried to directly hurt her. I would never purposely say something to harm her like such a successful and wonthat. derful girl.
A: Who said I was critical? I was just making her try to understand how her losing weight would really enhance your lifestyle. I never tried to directly hurt her. I would never purposely say something to harm her like that. Q: How is it that Aria, Emily, Hanna and Spencer never seemed to know your secrets but you always knew theirs? A: It’s the secrets that keep us close and together. They don’t necessarily need to know mine. Though the dirt they have can fill any grave. Q: Allison what do you have against Toby that made him take the fault for the “Jenna thing”? A: A secret too deep for me to even reveal here. If I did say it now all those times I could have told to my advantage would go to waste. In brief, it’s a secret
that only one person can know. Q: Do you have any terrible secrets? A: Terrible secrets? Well if I do and I said do would they be secrets anymore? For two to keep a secret one of them must be dead. That is why I am not spilling.
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Got a secret Can you keep it? Swear this one you’ll save Better lock it, in your pocket Taking this one to the grave If I show you then I know you Won’t tell what I said Cause two can keep a secret If one of them is dead…
Why do you smile? Like you have told a secret Now you’re telling lies Cause you’re the one to keep it But no one keeps a secret No one keeps a secret Why when we do our darkest deeds Do we tell? They burn in our brains Become a living hell Cause everyone tells Everyone tells… Got a secret Can you keep it? Swear this one you’ll save Better lock it, in your pocket Taking this one to the grave If I show you then I know you Won’t tell what I said Cause two can keep a secret If one of them is dead… Look into my eyes Now you’re getting sleepy Are you hypnotized By secrets that you’re keeping? I know what you’re keeping I know what you’re keeping
Got a secret Can you keep it? Swear this one you’ll save Better lock it, in your pocket Taking this one to the grave If I show you then I know you Won’t tell what I said Cause two can keep a secret If one of them is dead… [spoken] Alison? Yes, Katherine. I have something I want to tell you, but you have to promise to never tell anyone. I promise Do you swear on your life? I swear on my life [end spoken] You swore you’d never tell… You swore you’d never tell… You swore you’d never tell… You swore you’d never tell… Got a secret Can you keep it? Swear this one you’ll save Better lock it, in your pocket Taking this one to the grave If I show you then I know you Won’t tell what I said Cause two can keep a secret If one of them is dead… Yes two can keep a secret If one of us is…. Dead.
Musical Notes Written and sung by sisters, Catherine Pierce and Allison Pierce, secrets is now a hit sensation. They released this track on October 24th, 2000 from Sony Music Entertainment. I find this song to be the ideal song for my book because it is entirely about telling and maintaining secrets. Each main character in my novel has a dark secret but what keeps them all together is a much bigger secret. I think that also applies to my song. During the spoken part of it Katherine tells Alison a secret only to know it makes their relationship stronger and more bullet proof.
My impression of the song is about people keeping lethal secrets. It has a very concealed and mysterious sense and leaves you slightly traumatized. The song repeats death/murder, for instance “Taking this one to the grave”, I find that the lyrics are illustrating someone dying and taking with them a secret. What the song does not directly say but is insinuated is murder. I think that because of this line “cause two can keep a secret if one of them is dead…”. My opinion is that that line sums up the theme of the story.
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Feature Review of Flawless Genuine, innovative, and unique are few words that describe Sara Shepard’s book Flawless. A phenomenal exemplar of teen issues and relationships, this novel explores the wickedness and darker themes of teenage life. However, it doesn’t achieve this in a startling manner. I find that this publication made it extremely easy and effortless when it came to connecting to the teenage matters that are exhibited throughout the novel. Personally, I find that this book should be part of the grade eight curriculum for a variety of reasons. Specifically, the characters are easy to connect to, the plot hits close to home because of the many situations that were explored, and the novel includes sections where it is very suspenseful and dramatic. This novel acquires the necessities that the grade eight curric-
ulum looks for. The characters are facing modern day dilemmas; they go through similar situations that grade 8 students experience. For instance, “Ali groaned and smacked Hanna with a pillow. Ever since they’d become friends in September, all Hanna could talk about was how much she looooved Sean Ackard, a boy in their class at the Rosewood Day School, where they’d all been going since kindergarten. ” This is an ideal example of how this novel can relate to the modern generation. Flawless is an ideal example of how teenagers in novels are not much different from the ones who read the book. In the pages of Flawless the characters were able to connect with the audience like the following example: It was a Friday night in April, and Ali, Aria, Emily, Spencer, and Hanna were having one of their typical
sixth-grade sleepovers: putting way too much makeup on one another, chowing on salt-and-vinegar kettle chips, and half watching MTV Cribs on Ali’s flat-screen TV. Suspense is a certain element of this dramatic story an example would be this, they fell into an edgy silence. They’d been in on their fair share of Ali’s pranks, but those had been innocent sneaking into the saltwater hot tub at Fermata spa or putting droplets of black dye into Spencer’s sister’s shampoo. But something about this made them all just a little . . . uneasy. Boom! “Oh my God!” she screamed, running behind the blackberrycolored velvet couch. The girls wheeled around. At the window was Toby Cavanaugh, Her was just . . . standing there. Staring at them. From what has been said, I have confidence in that Flawless is a
brilliant novel to be placed in the grade 8 curriculums. In brief, the book incorporates the elements of an exceptional factor.