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Violet and Finch started off as two teenagers who attended the same school, but did not associate until the incident up on the school bell tower. Violet a popular former cheerleader was in a car accident in the spring with her sister Elenor, who did not make it. She was going through a lot of challenging emotions and having a rough time throughout the school year into the next. Violet was given a nickname from Finch which was “UltraViolet”, which was to give her changed self a new name. Throughout the story, Violet develops and becomes a new person when she learned to get out of her comfort zone and live how she used when Finch came around. Finch known a rebel and “Theodore Freak” (Niven 5), but to the readers he is a teenage boy who is suffering

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