Ingrid seems happy and excited to have new friends. Catlin even meets her friends from her old school and Dylans girlfriend, Maddi. They have their lockers in the same area, they ditch school together, and they both do very well in English together. This may be part of the reason as to why they become friends. All of these people soon just keep drifting away only sometimes checking on her to make sure she is okay, that is except for one new girl named Dylan Schuster.ĭylan is not your typical teenage girl as catlin is not either. Delani, Caitlin's favorite teacher and the person Ingrid practically shadowed begins ignoring her. Even her parents can not break through to her.

Next her friend Taylor tries to help but to anvil. First Alicia a girl who Catlin has not talked to since freshman year does not help. Many people try to get her to open up and feel better. How she decided to deal with it is by pushing everyone away from her which is not helping her get over it only making her feel more alone. Throughout reading this you find that when Ingrid kills herself Catlin takes it harder than anyone else. She is a character in a book by NIna LaCour called Hold Still, A William C. Such as how Catlin, a sophmore in highschool, struggles through the loss of her poor friend Ingrid. All people have a different way of looking at it. How would a person go through losing a person and come out smiling? Would you be able to? I dont think i could, but it would be very hard to do. Losing a friend can be like losing a part of yourself.

Hold still book nina lacour