Seeing Things Differently

Author's Note: This is a piece about the death of Alison DiLaurentis in the book Pretty Little Liars "By Sara Shepard" in the point of view of Alison.
the original story was written in the third person so let's see how it sounded coming from Alison

Recap: On the night Alison DiLaurentis disappeared, her friends and her were having an Eighth grade sleepover party. Alison scared her friends by sneaking up on them in the doorway.They all laughed and joked about it at the time. Sometime after the girls had fallen asleep, they began to wake up one by one and realized Spencer and Ali were both missing. Spencer had left the barn and returned to tell the other girls that she looked for Ali everywhere and thought she heard a scream.

Alison’s death was tragic to her friends, she left an annual sleepover and wasn’t seen again until 1 year later. She was found "six feet under" the building grounds of a new gazebo and someone had "A" lot of explaining to do. Her friends know of her disappearance, and are curious as to who killed her . little did they know there was a whole different side of the story to be heard. And the only way for it to be told was from Alison DiLaurentis herself.

Alison: So I was walking to my friend’s house and I started to get that feeling like someone was watching me; I turned around to see a man in a black hoodie dart off into the woods. I thought nothing of it at the time, of course. It was probably somebody from school trying to mess with me, so I continued to my friends house. It was 5 minutes past midnight and we were all having a great time. That’s when the texts started, my phone blinked on and off and came to a message that said:

From: UNKNOWN

I know your secret and if you want it to stay a secret you have to meet me in the woods behind your house in 20 minutes.       

-A                                              

     

I would rather die than let someone find out that I blinded an innocent girl with firecrackers, so I did what anyone with a brain would do,  I left my friends as soon  they fell asleep and  met “A” in the woods behind my house, to take care of business. I walked down the pebble road, only to see a dark silhouette of a tall man, who I believed to be the same one I had seen earlier, if only I had thought of that sooner. Before I could speak, someone grabbed me tightly, my wrists cracked loudly as they were forced behind my back. I kicked and screamed for help as loud as I could, until an arm reached around my neck. There were at least three people restraining me. I looked up to see a big shovel hurtling towards my head, instantly everything went black. I awoke to feel dirt on my face and in my lungs. I had been buried alive.

  
The Story is more Interesting from Alison’s point of view, there is more detail as well. Coming from Alison, it almost seemed as if she thought she could beat  “A” and make it back alive, but in the book, it makes it seem like she is a helpless little puppy in the wild. Which makes me think that Alison had no idea that when she left that she was going to die. Hearing this from Alison changes how we react to the story. In the story, I thought that Alison deserved what she got, but now it almost seems there was more to the story than the narrator was telling. With a  different point of view, there is a  whole different story.