When she was released from the detention center, she just wanted her life to be normal. Although she killed her best friend, she still felt bad about it and regretted doing it.įor me, she wasn’t a cold-blooded murderer, but only a lost child who felt abandoned by everyone she cared about and couldn’t deal with her emotions. I think that the people who commit crimes always feel guilty about it to an extent, which sometimes makes them want to change and try to be better. Every person can choose between right and wrong, despite all the factors that affect us ever since we’re born. In my opinion, everyone can change because it’s only up to us what we decide to do with our lives. But going back to the questions, first of all, I believe that it’s possible for everyone to start afresh, even people who have committed the most horrific crimes. However, the framework of sadness and abandonment built by the author makes the crime more plausible and therefore, it makes it possible for me to sympathize with Alice/Jennifer. I’m not saying that what she did was right because obviously, it wasn’t. Knowing about Alice’s past makes it so much easier for me to understand why she committed a murder. Her relationship with the bossy, arrogant Michelle and the shy, mouse-like Lucy is also very well shown. Cassidy doesn’t make it difficult for us to see Jennifer’s pre-school adoration of her gorgeous mother, her fear of being abandoned and finally, the more mature Jennifer learning to cope on her own. Through flashbacks, we get an insight into the Berwick Waters’s case and Jennifer’s childhood. While reading the book, we gradually learn about Alice’s dangerous past as Jennifer Jones, finding out that she killed another child. This one sentence provides information about what the book is about and the instant we read it, it makes us intrigued. “Three children walked away from the edge of town one day – but only two of them came back…” is the sentence written at the backside of Anne Cassidy’s book called Looking for JJ. The novel is a great example of it being possible, with the author making it easy for us to understand Alice’s case. Can people change? Is it possible for people to make a fresh start after doing something horrible? Will a criminal who has committed a serious crime ever be able to change if given a chance to start over with a clean state? Those are the questions that Alice Tully, the main character of one of Anne Cassidy’s novels, keeps asking herself.
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