In the beginning of the story Susy starts off by her present day life. At this point of her life she is 37, married with kids. She soon finds out that her mother is dying. She doesn't want to really want go see her because of all that her mother put her through in the past. Not to mention when her mother first lied to her about dying. In the chapters after that she starts to explain the story from the very beginning as to how her relationship with her mom got to the place it is now, all the way back to when she was a young child. From all that has happened so far it seems like her mother started to be a bad parent after she and Susy's father separated.
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" Each letter lay in a white sea. Suddenly, they startled me, melted together and stood up as words. They were open windows. I was elated. I could read anything!" (Sonnenberg 21)
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I enjoyed reading this quote at the beginning of the third chapter. This showed me just how detailed Susanna Sonnenberg's writings really is. This long paragraph of personification was worded perfectly. It describes how she was able to first read. Instead of just saying that she finally got the hang of things she describes how the words are standing in up and gives what shes reading human features.
