Going too Far (1-49)

Summary
This bildungsroman, Going too Far by Jennifer Echols, started out pretty weird. The narrator is a seventeen year old no-goodnik girl with blue hair and a crazy ambition. One night, she brought herself, her boyfriend and the top two highest GPA students at her school to a railroad track. Being a troublemaker, she influenced the two innocent students, Brian and Tiffany, into getting drunk and heading to a restricted railroad bridge to move their relationship to the "next level". She wore a low-cut shirt that read Peer Pressure on the front in order to lure her boyfriend into her desires. It was her way of ignoring the legendary story of the couples that were killed on that same railroad track a few years before when they decided to fool around over there. Fortunately, a police officer, named Officer After, had followed them to the bridge and demanded they come out after a few moments of messing around and drinking on the bridge. They came to realized that if they hadn't gotten away from the tracks, they would have been killed by the high-speed train that passed by after they were back on safe ground. The four teenagers were taken to the police stations where they were picked up by their parents. Meg, the narrator, however, stayed overnight at the jail since her parents did not care to come pick her up. The officer put her, Brian and Tiffany into a program called Powers That Be where they would spend the nights of their spring breaks observing ambulance, fire truck or police jobs (Meg's boyfriend, Eric, got away with it since his father is a lawyer). Meg was placed into the police assistant job so she was to follow Officer After around while he is doing his night shifts. The "sneaky shit" that ruined her spring break is now starting to be fun for Meg to follow around as she came to realize that he is "cute".

Quote
"The blood drained from my face and pooled around my feet. My heart sped up, pumping nothing" (Echols 41).

Reaction
Although the narrator Meg is a lunatic, she uses a lot of vocabulary words and literary devices. I often had to write words down to look up or reread a passage over to understand what she literally means. This quote stood out to me out of all of her figurative language because it was so easy to imagine. This quote uses personification because blood cannot drain from a place and then pool to another place. Well, it can, but not physically so therefore it is personification.