Chelsea Ottman CBI

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/01/03/168567019/you-cant-see-it-but-youll-be-a-different-person-in-10-years

This article is from the NPR about how people change over time. It focuses on a study done with about 19,000 people who all took surveys. There were questions about their personality traits, their core values and preferences. Some people were asked to look back on how they changed over the past 10 years. Others were asked to predict how they thought they would change in the next decade... They found that people underestimated how much they will change in the future. People just didn't recognize how much their seemingly essential selves would shift and grow. And this was true whether they were in their teen years or middle-aged. Life is a process of growing and changing, and what our results suggest is that growth and change never really stops."

To relate this back to Farming of Bones, my interest in how people change over time came from something that Amabelle is thinking about on the bottom of page 229. "At night, lying next to Yves, I grew more and more frightened that Sebastian would not recognize me if he ever saw me again." I think that this article relates to Farming of Bones because throughout the book we see Amabelle changing throughout the book. I think that Amabelle grows up a lot during the book, and that she is maturing because of the things that she has seen and has gone through. I believe that her saying that she is afraid that Sebastian may not recognize her is something that may be possible. She has not only mentally matured and changed throughout the book, she has also changed physically because of the beating that happened to her. Sebastian may not immediately recognize Amabelle when he sees her again because she has changed and matured in a mental and physical way. Also, we don't get a sense of the length of time that it has been since Amabelle last saw Sebastian, and it might have been a while since they have seen each other.

"One possibility is that it's just really, really hard to imagine a different, future version of yourself. Or maybe people just like themselves the way they are now, and don't like the idea of some unknown change to come.

This quote from the article explains what Amabelle could be going through right now with her thoughts about Sebastian. Amabelle doesn't want to think that Sebastian could forget her, and she doesn't want it to be true that everything could end up changing between her and Sebastian. We know that Amabelle wishes that her and Sebastian could get married, but we still don't know how things are going to end up. I think that Amabelle doesn't want to accept the possibility that her future could possibly be without Sebastian. She doesn't want to accept that things could change.