"Anyway, after we leave Winter Hill I won't have to worry about things anymore" (115 - Ed. Bantam)
F. Jasmine is sitting on Berenice's lap, trying to explain to her how she feels. She describes the world as being "loose": she feels lonely because she doesn't know anybody in her hometown, she is unable to connect with anybody, she doesn't feel like she is a "member of the world". However, F. Jasmine truly believes that the wedding will be the solution to her loneliness.
F. Jasmine is a really troubled child. Her age may not be an easy period, as it is the transition between childhood and adolescence, but she really seems more troubled than the average twelve-year old girl. She questions everything around her in a way that few children would do and she always seems to react in an excessively violent manner. However, what she says here could have been said by anybody. Indeed, she feels terrible and she thinks that a change in her lifestyle will solve everything and will make her feel good again. This is the kind of reaction that everybody would have: when you feel that everything goes wrong, it is natural to look forward to a certain event that you think will change everything. As if all the problems and questions you have could disappear overnight, as if by magic. F. Jasmine thinks that her loneliness is more linked to the place she lives than to her own person. Therefore, being a part of this wedding and travelling around the world will transform her life and make her problems disappear.
Q: At this point of the story, does Berenice start to take Frankie seriously? Or does she consider that Frankie is only being immature and that she will have forgotten everything the next morning?
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