Authors note: Pretty Little Liars By Sara
Shepard is the perfect novel to explain that Nothing “Tastes Better Than
Revenge.”
“Always sleep with one eye open. Never take
anything for granted. Your best friends might just turn out to be your
enemies when you least expect it, and when they do I will
get my revenge.” This is what Alison
said on the video that was taken the
night she died , If you mess with her,
you are going to have to pay the price. Of revenge.
They say
that sweet revenge has a bitter taste, but
in Pretty Little Liars that bitter taste is like licking the bowl of
left over chocolate cake batter. It’s not good for you, but you enjoy it more
than anything. Readers will see that revenge is
not what we really think is should be.
Alison is
the it girl of the school, the one who frowned upon everyone else who wasn’t
just like her. She would do anything to keep a secret since the day she died
Alison hated her life and the people in it she had it hard but to fix it she turns to one
thing revenge. If you listen to the lyrics of secret, By the pierces you will hear a ot of revenge
Got A Secret, Can You Keep It, Swear This One You’ll Save. Better Lock It In Your Pocket, Taking This One To The Grave. If I Show You Then I Know You Won’t Tell What I Said. Cause Two can Keep a Secret if One of Them is DEAD!
( song,secrets by the pierces)
“You think the truth is this big shiny disco ball of purity
then go ahead and try it. See what it gets you. Telling the truth to the wrong
person at the wrong time is how I ended up where I did. Take it from me you're
always better off with a really good lie to cover up what you did.” Ali said to
her friends in the first book after getting revenge on Toby Cavanaugh, what did
he do you ask ? He was caught lurking around and peering through her Bedroom window
when she was changing clothes. You know how she got revenge? She set off
fireworks in his house., causing his step sister to go blind. But Alison isn’t
the only well known character who seeks revenge.
If you have seen the movie The Princess Bride, you will surely
agree that when the Spanish fencer says his legendary quote, “Hello my name Is
Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die,” it’s the perfect example of revenge . Also Mocking Jay, the finale book of the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins,
involves plenty of revenge. Katniss Everdeen plans her reprisal at the capitol,
they’ve been very naughty lately. The capitol burned down District 12 and
captured some of the victors of the games and are holding them at the capitol.
So Katniss drops the bomb on them―literally. It sounds a lot like revenge to me,
the characters are hoping for payback. But what you don’t know about hope, is that it breeds internal misery.
These characters
are alike because they don’t understand the pain that revenge can cause.
None of these characters understand that an
eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Which basically means that if we were all to take revenge on the people who have done
wrong to us, the whole world would end up blinded by revenge and will end up not
having what we call forgiveness or sympathy
towards others. Destroying love, happiness and causing us to have a
sorrowful life.
so a message to everyone out in the world who seeks revenge. Everything
is not what it seems. Don’t act upon it unless you want to be unsighted by the
darkness.