Chattahoochee River
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Breaking Night
In the first three chapters, I think it's interesting to compare how the characters deal with the challenges they face -- Lisa, the older sister, seems to become very hard and distant. The mother turns to drugs and alcohol and is desperate for attention, she's also prone to schizophrenic breakdowns. The main character, Liz, tries to avoid her problems and seeks comfort outside of her home through friends and their family. Liz also tends to blame herself for things that aren't her fault, like how she blamed herself for her mother's breakdowns and how she thought it was her fault that her mother left. This, I thought, was extremely sad, and it also confused me -- I don't understand why she is so quick to blame herself for her mother's problems.
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I agree Marisa that the ending of chapter 3 was sad. But I think the reason why Liz blamed herself when her mother left was because she's spent her entire life to capture the attention of both her parents. Liz would ask them questions and not blame them for their drug addiction. I think it was hard for Liz to understand that this wasn't her fault. Especially because Liz felt like she was the parent at times.
ReplyDeleteIt is probably impossible to comprehend what it would be like to be born into a world and straight way face the adversity involved with having parent's with drug addiction impoverishment. Liz's way of thinking is immediately distorted to fit the natural love for her parents, and in this way she can't perceive in her circumstances the dysfunctions of her family like we can.
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