Cadence Extended | we-were-liars

Cadence Sinclair Eastmen

Cadence is a black haired, tall, elegant, beautiful, eighten year old woman. She has felt love and been in love. She has felt heartbreak and guilt. She knows what pain is and how it affects people. She also knows how to deal. All her life she has been told not to show pain and fear. She was told to hold it in and put on a smile. Never to question or disagre.

Cadence is the main character in the book. She is also the naroator. She is the daughter of Penny and the grandaughter of Harris and Tiper. She is one of The Liars and is deeply in love with Gat.

Extended Metaphor

She goes from room to room searching for a clue to what happened “that night”. The hallways are long but she has to get to the next room. She doesn’t have a choice. Her drive to figure out what happened grows with every step. No one will help her. She must do it on her own. Every once in a while the whole world shakes. Like someone walked into the side of it and the world slipped off its resting place. She has to take a pause. She has to remember where she was before the world slipped off to get back to the game in her mind. Her goal is to figure out four things. Who, where, what, and why. Who was there? Where did it happen? What caused it? Why was she found in the water? The four questions swarm her head. As she goes from room to room memories come back.

Fire. Fire is what cause the accident.

Clairmont. The Clairmont house burned down.

The Liars. The Liars set the fire. Mirren, Johnny, Gat, and Cadence.

That still doesn’t answer one question though. Why did they only find her in the water that night? Where were the others? They wouldn’t just leave her there. Gat would have pulled me out. So where was he?

Metaphor - Clue – She has to find and put together the clues of her life to figure out what happened. The only way she can find the clues is to move forward and ask questions that might not be answered. Throughout the years she did not know what happened, anything could be on the table and everything was trial and error.