Analysis: Battle Royale

    Also today (whoops, another blog post,) I will be analyzing a chunk of text to figure out the deep meaning and make some inferences about it in 3....2.....1....GO.

Under this jumble of text, there is a major spoiler of the death of a student, read with caution because this is an actual quote.

The quote reads: "Megumi's throat began to burn, but it didn't last very long. She couldn't say a word and lost consciousness as her chest warmed over with blood. She expired, unable to form any idea of what it meant exactly to have a blade stuck in her throat. Betrayed in the arms of Mitsuko,she died without any thoughts of Shyua Nanahara or of her family." (Takami 98)
What I think it means: I think I should give you context of what's happening right now (AND I'M SO MAD ABOUT THIS.) So, this girl named Megumi is hiding in one of the houses in the island and the meanest girl in the class, Mitsuko, enters the house. Before this, Megumi was trying to call her parents with her cell phone. It was a failed attempt because now none of the students' wouldn't work, obviously. What makes it worse was when Megumi called her father, Sakamochi answered, AND HE CALLED BACK WHEN MITSUKO ENTERED THE HOUSE ABOUT IF SOMEONE ELSE HEARD HER PHONE, SHE MAY BE DEAD.
              Well yes, moving on, Mitsuko does find Megumi and she starts to "panic" (uuuugh) about being trapped on the island. Megumi saw this as an attempt to kill Mitsuko, but pulled away. She explained to Mitsuko that she tried to kill her and Mitsuko forgave Megumi. They hugged it out, but then Mitsuko saw Megumi's knife AND STABBED MEGUMI IN THE THROAT. (Oh, and did I tell you Megumi had a crush on Shuya if that helps at all.) So basically after Megumi said she tried to kill Mitsuko, Mitsuko saw this as a chance to say that she also tried to kill Megumi...AND DID. I think this is considered the most disrespectful way to kill someone in the game. Really though Mitsuko BETRAYED Megumi by fake tearing up to get Megumi to think that Mitsuko isn't that bad as she seemed. Now we can get to what the quote means is that Megumi actually trusted Mitsuko and when there was a open chance, Mitsuko took it and killed Megumi swiftly.
Predictions: What I think is going to happen to Mitsuko is going to try and trust someone else. When Mitsuko is that the point when she thinks she can fully trust them, it crumbles and she will probably die from betrayal.

Alright, that's all for today (I promise), bye readers!
-Amanda