"Mellie is me. I must not forget that."
The entire book is extremely eerie. Everything about Rose Mellie Rose has a sort of double edge to it. Except for the fact that the island is dying and so is everyone on it. Like Mellie was found, her daughter Rose will be found as well. But like everyone on the island who has died, Mellie will die alone and pitifully. She had many opportunities to go to the continent and she did not take them. And she could have avoided her death altogether by going to the clinic for her delivery. But it seems she suffers from being a stubborn headed teenager. Not leaving the island and going to the grotto were her ultimate downfalls. But to me, she seems to be an impartial observer who in the end becomes sucked into the story of the island that ends in its death.
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