reading response for "IDENTICAL" #2

           In my first response to the book "Identical" by Ellen Hopkins, I was noticing how the twins were starting to become less slick and not as cold hearted. Through out the book they've seemed like they're made out of marble, they're so fake with no expressions and they hide every little bad thing that's ever happened  to them. As the story keeps moving on, all the secrets and lies they are containing start to get extreme and they begin to crack, I'm even seeing sines of insanity like, when Kaeliegh starts barraging through food like theres no tomorrow because she feels "empty" inside. But, wouldn't you go crazy if you couldn't talk to anyone? If all there was in your life was your nagging thoughts that keep playing over and over in your head, and an abyss of memories that are never leaving you?
           Theres this factor that they also think they're crazy. "Crazy" is just a word and them thinking that they are becoming ill in the mind, just might make them think these terrible thoughts, and do insane things. It's like they're making themselves crazy. I know that once other people, or society in general starts telling someone that they're crazy they can feed into it along with everyone else. Human beings are contagious of one another's ideas. I think that you can also be contagious of your sub conscious ideas. Not only are these to girls going crazy with all the truths bottled up inside of them, but with their internal thoughts.
           Since almost all the dialogue in this story is internal, I've noticed that both Kaeliegh and Reaenne have been compulsively putting their focus on other people, and have been noticing every little flaw in everyone that surrounds them. Its all they do, and I think there using other peoples problems, as a defense mechanism so they don't have to think about their own messed up lives. It's like a distraction. They're almost feeding off of other peoples issues. This is another reason why they're starting to go crazy. Or think they are going crazy. They are barely alive anymore.
           As I mentioned before in my other reflection, there is a ton of denial in this book and I think that denial is what's keeping the two main characters going. Not having to think about their own problems is like procrastinating endlessly, while they're feeding off of their observations of other people. This whole source their using to live is fake, and its causing them to go crazy (or just think they're going crazy which is making them seem crazy). It can't last forever and it is destroying them.