Outside Reading

Trixie and her boyfriend have broken up, but Trixie doesnt want to let him go so she and her friend, Zephrus, get a plan together to make Jason jealous and want her back. They have a party at Zephrus' house and invite the whole boys hockey team; including Jason. While there, Trixie manages to flirt and do things with all the other boys that would potentially make Jason want her back. After everyone leaves, Trixie, Jason, Zephrus, and Jason's friend, Moss, decide to stay and play a game of cards. Being highschool kids, they raise the stakes and turn the innocent game into a much riskier game of strip poker which ends in Jason and Moss fighting and Trixie crying in the bathroom. When her father, Daniel, wakes up at the sound of her arrival home, he searches to find her curled up in the bathroom crying. She says, "he raped me." In this chapter of the book Trixie has the intention to only get her boyfriend back when her life is changed forever. The effects of her talking to the police and getting Jason arrested are shown in how she is treated at school a couple weeks after when she is brave enough to face her piers again. As she walks in she is greeted by name calling and pranks from the people she had once called her friends. We later find out that the story Trixie told to the police wasn't exactly the truth, but when explaining what really happened, things go from bad to worse. Her father who now has every intention to kill Jason at the first sight of him, must now hold back, thinking of his past and what it would do to him. It is not till after he hears Trixie screaming in the arms of him at the Winterfest does he really release his anger. The next day, a police officer winds up at their door explaining to Daniel what he had found. The news was surprising to everyone; Jason had committed suicide. At school the past few years a couple people have lost friends and family members for similar reasons. I think that there is no reason in life that peope feel the need to do that to friends or family or themselves for that matter. No one wants to have to deal with the pain and sorrow that occurs after an event like that. A book like The Tenth Circle really shows what impact something like that has on people and can teach us many things about life. We dont always know what people are going through because we havent experienced it ourselves, but hearing about it gives us a fraction of it and helps us understand.