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The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers around the suicides of five sisters. The Lisbon girls' suicides fascinate their community as their neighbors struggle to find an explanation for the acts. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 384 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (600 × 936 pixel, file size: 172 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) http://www. ...
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The novel is atypical in that it was written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who became infatuated with the girls, a style mirroring a Greek chorus.[1] The narrator(s) rely on relics and interviews gathered in the two decades after the suicide to construct the tale. The novel is rich in descriptive detail, using observations about the state of the Lisbon house and the contents of the girls’ rooms to advance the plot. The effect is that the reader glimpses the novel’s main characters as if he or she were one of the neighborhood onlookers. Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to the participant role of a referent, such as the speaker, the addressee, and others. ...
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The novel was released to significant critical acclaim[citation needed] and was adapted into a successful 1999 film by director Sofia Coppola. The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett. ...
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Plot summary At the outset of the novel, the Lisbons seem like a fairly normal Catholic family living in Grosse Pointe, Michigan in the 1970s. The father is a math teacher at the local high school and the mother is a homemaker. The family has five daughters: 13-year-old Cecilia, 14-year-old Lux, 15-year-old Bonnie, 16-year-old Mary, and 17-year-old Therese. This article is about the incorporated city of Grosse Pointe. ...
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Their lives change dramatically within one summer when Cecilia, a stoic and astute girl described as an "outsider", attempts suicide by cutting her wrists. A few weeks later, the girls throw a chaperoned party at which Cecilia jumps from their second story window and succeeds in ending her life. Suicide (Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally taking ones own life. ...
Afterwards, life seemingly returns to normal for the Lisbons — although the cause of Cecilia’s suicide and its aftereffects on the family are popular subjects of neighborhood gossip. The mystique of the Lisbon girls also increases for the neighborhood boys, the narrators of the novel.
Lux begins a romance with local heartthrob Trip Fontaine. Trip negotiates with the overprotective Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon to take Lux to a homecoming dance, on the condition that he finds dates for the other three girls. The girls attend the dance but Trip and Lux sneak off afterwards to have sex and Lux misses curfew as a result. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Afterwards, the Lisbons become recluses: Mrs. Lisbon pulls all the girls out of school as punishment for Lux's actions, and Mr. Lisbon is fired for his increasingly erratic behavior. The Lisbons do not care for their house or garden anymore and almost never leave their home. A strange smell coming from the house permeates the neighborhood. From a safe distance, all the people in the neighborhood watch the Lisbons' lives deteriorate, but no one can summon up the courage to intervene.
During this time, the Lisbons become increasingly fascinating to the neighborhood in general and the narrator boys in particular. The boys call the Lisbon girls and communicate by playing records over the telephone for the girls. Also, Lux begins a series of promiscuous sexual encounters on the Lisbon’s roof. It has been suggested that Childrens gramophone records be merged into this article or section. ...
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Eventually, the girls send a message to their distant admirers asking for help escaping the house. But moments after the boys arrive one night to rescue them, the four sisters kill themselves for no apparent reason (Mary's life is saved in the hospital, but she successfully ends her life with sleeping pills a few weeks later). It is noted that the mass suicide comes a year after Cecilia's first attempt. After the "suicide free-for-all," Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon leave the neighborhood. The house is sold and most of the Lisbons' personal effects are either thrown out or sold in a garage sale. The narrators scavenge through the trash to collect much of the "evidence" they mention. A garage sale, also called a yard sale, tag sale, attic sale, moving sale, or junk sale, is an informal, irregularly scheduled [[year in which block sales are allowed, so that people dont have to get the required permits or collect sales tax. ...
Style and point-of-view The story is told by an anonymous narrator in the first person plural. The narrator is one or all of a group of adolescent boys who obsessed over the Lisbon girls from a distance in their youth, and now, as middle-aged men, continue to try to piece together the girls' story. Several of the boys are mentioned by name, but the narration never slips into first-person singular and the speaker's identity is entirely unclear. The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ...
The narrative looks back on the time when the boys knew and loved the Lisbon girls, who continue to haunt them in adulthood. The men keep in touch with each other to continue to be the "custodians of the girls' lives", and the subject of the girls always comes up when they "run into each other at cocktail parties or business luncheons."
Still in mourning, the group treasures a collection of "evidence" they have gathered ("Exhibits Nos. 1-97") concerning the Lisbons. It includes Cecilia's diary, family photographs and personal objects from the girls' rooms. Due to their connection with the Lisbon girls, many of the objects are seen as having an almost magical, fetish-like quality. == c programming[[a--203. ...
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The narrators refer to several interviews they have conducted with people who lived in the neighborhood during the time of the Lisbon suicides. Some are people who played a prominent role in the story (Mrs. Lisbon and an aging, substance-addicted Trip Fontaine) and some are merely onlookers, such as an old drunk who lived across from the Lisbons and a teacher who was the neighborhood's sole communist. All the people mentioned in the novel—amounting to more than 150 names—become witnesses to, and commentators on, the tragedy that befalls the Lisbon family. It remains unclear whom the narrative chorus is addressing. Though it sometimes seems as though the mourners have collected all their memorabilia and conducted their interviews for some official purpose, this is never made clear. In their attempt to understand who the Lisbon girls were and why they committed suicide, they never find a truly satisfying answer. This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ...
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Sofia Coppola wrote the screenplay and directed a 97 minute film version, filmed in 1999, and released on April 21, 2000, In New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The film starred Kirsten Dunst, James Woods, Kathleen Turner and Josh Hartnett. Much of the dialogue and narration is taken directly from the novel. The film is considered faithful to the book in spite of the latter's non-traditional narrative and was rated R for strong thematic elements involving teens. The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett. ...
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Kirsten[1] Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, known for her roles in Interview with the Vampire, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, and Bring It On, as well as Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man film series. ...
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The French band Air created the score to the film, also entitled The Virgin Suicides. Air is a French music duo, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. ...
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Footnotes - ^ Eugenides told 3am Magazine: "I think that if my name hadn't been Eugenides, people wouldn't have called the narrator a Greek chorus. The traditional Greek chorus stays apart from the action, but the boys in The Virgin Suicides meddle in the action quite a bit, so they really [are] different from a traditional Greek chorus."
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