Aimee: Difference between revisions

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''[[Aimee]]'' is a novel by Mary Beth Miller. A teenager girl named Aimee commits suicide, and [[Nameless Narrative|her friend, (and {{spoiler|[[Namelessbook Narrative|Zoenarrator)]]}}, blames herself for helping her do it. So do Aimee's parents and the police, and eventually Aimee's other friends. The story follows her after she is acquitted and moves away from where she used to live and starts over at another school, while doing court-required therapy. Slowly, what led up to Aimee's suicide is revealed and she comes to terms with the fact that while she didn't kill Aimee, but that she could have been a better friend.

* [[Adults Are Useless]]-: Almost all of the adults are useless and annoying, at least in the narrator's eyes. For example, her mother is an emotionless [[Workaholic]] who only cares about appearances, her therapist Marge is too self righteous to help Hope, and so on.

* [[Amoral Attorney]]-: The protagonist's mom.

* [[Cinderella Circumstances]]-: Aimee's stepmother. See {{spoiler|[[Rape Asas Backstory]]}} below.

* [[City Withwith No Name]]-: Intentionally on the narrator's part, since the book is her journal. She does not want to reveal where her friends live.

* [[Convenient Miscarriage]]-: The protagonist's baby. [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]], though, since she did all the things would make this likely. Also, she's never 100% sure.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]-: Aimee, and later the narrator.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]-: Aimee

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]-: Subverted with Hope. Hope seems to be this, and this is why the main girl does not want to talk to her. Turns out {{spoiler|she tried to kill herself shortly before the protagonist came to the school.}}

* [[Maternally Challenged]]-: The protagonist's mom could be said to be like this.

* [[Nameless Narrative]]-: The narrator's name is not revealed until the last few pages. {{spoiler|It's Zoe.}}

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: The main girl's parents are effectively absent from her life.

* [[Rape Asas Backstory]] -: {{spoiler|Aimee's stepmother was molesting her at night.}}

* [[Rich Bitch]]-: The protagonist's mother

* [[Six-:Student Clique]]-: The protagonist and her friends:

* [[Workaholic]]-: The main girl's mother