b. MBP consumed Julie's mother, the illness engulfs Julie's life.
2. The author chose to write about his topic because she wanted to spread the word about MBP in how thousands of children experience the effects of this disease, which needs to be stopped.
3. I chose this book because I wanted to learn about mental illness and I seem to enjoy books that have more to do with life stories of struggle. Also considering I want to be a doctor, you must know a lot about the type of patients you will experience and it is known that most patients will be mentally ill. I wanted to keep reading because I wanted to see the medical records and the illusions made up by Julie's mother and what type of disorder the father had.
4. The book was realistic because as I read the tendencies were the same as every child in that we all want to please put mothers and parents and will do anything to do so. I found that Julie's mother was very similar to another book I read called "child called it." I don't really relate to the topics in the book because I have not had a mentally ill adult in my life but I have seen the effects of mental illness among my piers and their family's, which I would say has brought me to find these cases interesting.
People
1. Considering the book is written from personal experience the experiences are factual and have hundreds of hospital bills and records to back up the story. Some are even included in the written pages of the book. I feel no one from outside closed doors ever really know the effects or situations of home life so it is hard to say whether or not you would understand what is really happening, due to the fact the mother acts so nurturing out in public always having her children presentable and wanting to know what is wrong with them. The authors choices show me survival and sacrifice to please those around her. Although she is a victim through the entire story she still reportedly loves her mother for loving julie and her brother Dan "little joe" so much. The author is a giving and caring victim of maltreatment from her mothers illness.
2. Daniel Joseph Gregory the first the father of Julie and has a form of scitsophrenia, short tempered, seen as a round man who is demanding.
Julie Gregory the author of the story tells her tale of MBP as the victim and how her life wasn't all bad but the medical "advice" has forever scard her. Tall, very skinny, and mostly refered to as sick.
Sandy Gregory a model like woman, very nurturing, short tempered, mentally ill, has had a hard life and was given away by her mother many times to groups of men.
I would use both indirect and direct characterization because you can't describe the events in which both parents I acted directly because it wouldn't give the event justice, but through actions the audience is then able to infer what is actually going on in the parents brains. Also, direct characterization would then be needed for smaller details and looks upon their faces when the events occur.
3. These people are interesting enough to write about because they have all suffered trama, although in different ways Daniel Joseph the First Being sent to war by a worthless father, sandy with a mother who was selfish and sold her daughter for money ( her mother also had mental illness) and Julie at the brunt of two parents who suffer from different disorders is the victim and story teller of what happened behind those closed doors.
Style
1. The author didn't use literary techniques besides similes, metaphors, and a little imagery because she was talking about life. And in life there aren't really techniques during events in the life's of these people. The style was more journalistic with events.
Examples:
- imagery "As far as o can see are rusty refrigerators, old stoves, jagged edges of washers, toothy sheets of tin, heaps of tires, wavy hear rising from the black rubber piled right out there in the blazing sun." Page 45
- simile "I remember my dad then, manatee like; big, soft, scrubbed clean as if he'd just been run through a car wash on a la-Z- boy gurney." Page 5
- simile "The car bump-bump over the washboard rivets etched by years of wheels that have sped up the steep hill like it was their own 4x4 trail." Page 44
-simile "I wake up on the floor, shaped around the tub like a chalk-drawn body at a crime scene." Page 188
2. The author focuses on the action of the novel because if you are thinking to memories as you recall them you aren't going to remember something if it was insignificant. Therefore the information is what is remembered and if the surrounds were important they were explained. For example when the family moves to Ohio Julie describes the mucky water and trashy area they were living in, also she talks deeply about the rooms she was in at the doctors offices and while she was getting tests done. These aren't necessarily choices but they are memories, So they are important because they reveal the true experience of being a victim to this illness.
3. The authors tone and mood is empathy and understanding even though the events of this life were traumatic.
4.the authors attitude was one of awareness to the audience because the entire purpose of the book is to spread awareness of MBP to the world.
5. The author offers medical records in the written text of the novel. It supported my thinking because it gave hard evidence of the mental acts against Julie.
Two ideas of the novel that I never will forget if the wonder about why the mother had rocks ingrained in her skin and what led her to the moment of getting them there. Also what will stay with me is the over all idea that some mentally ill people will do this to their child and I could see this and stop its continuance.
" The impact of her skid lodged pebbles so far under her skin that they stuck there permanently.
Why did you jump out the window, Mom?
Because I had to, Julie.
But why?
I'll tell you sometime when you're older. And she turns away, lips trembling."
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