Summary
When Susy finally decides to settle down with Christopher and decides to have kids is when I think she really matured. She now longer cared about what her my mom taught her was important like sex and money. She actually fell in love with him and over some period of time they had a child. I think having Daniel really changed her and made her stronger. In the end of the book she started to stop talking to her mother cause she became annoyed with her. She soon found out that some of what her mom told her were lies. Even after being all that she had been through with her bad mother I think it made her stronger and see things in a different way. In the end she stopped talking to her mom for good. She felt as if her mother had lied to her about everything. As it left off from the beginning she decided not to go see her mom after all. But, she visited her father and sister. They only thing that mattered to her now was her own family.
Quote
" She was wrong that the lies broadens the world. I'm told. I doubt myself. i tell the story of my own experience and wonder at the crazy details." (Sonnenberg 168)
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I feel like this quote is a very important part of the story because she telling us that she doesnt know if what she saying is true or not. Her mom lied to her about everything her whole life so she believes her whole life is a lie. And that maybe she was lying about thing too because, of how much of a liar her mother was. This quote is important because it shows why Susy was truly mad at her mother. To me it basically explains why she wrote the book about her relationship with her mother and how it affect her life. To her , her mother was a liar and thats the reason why she feels like she shouldn't speak to her anymore.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Her Last Death ( 121 - 200 )
Summary
The relationship with Susy and her mom has changed greatly through out the book. Susy has what i thought was a coming of age point when she loses her virginity to her English teacher. I thought this was her coming of age point simply because after what was going on with her and her teacher she cut her mom out of her life. She started to lie about they guys she was with Her mother and her up to that point kept no secrets away from each other until that point on. After losing her virginity it was as if Susy had changed greatly. Even though she hated what who her mom was she was be coming like her more and more. Just like her mom after she stopped having the affair with her teacher she started sleeping around with men as if it was nothing. She thought life was all about sex just like her mother had taught her.
Quote:
"Sex is the way of the world." (Sonnenberg 197).
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This shows just how much Susy's life is all about sex. Her mom taught her since when she was younger that it was the only thing that was fun in life other than drugs. She hated her mother for what she was but, I don"t that she ever realized that she was becoming just like her. This quote shows just how important this is to her in her life. Its as if her and her mother was addicted to it . They thought about it none stop. To them it was all that mattered.
The relationship with Susy and her mom has changed greatly through out the book. Susy has what i thought was a coming of age point when she loses her virginity to her English teacher. I thought this was her coming of age point simply because after what was going on with her and her teacher she cut her mom out of her life. She started to lie about they guys she was with Her mother and her up to that point kept no secrets away from each other until that point on. After losing her virginity it was as if Susy had changed greatly. Even though she hated what who her mom was she was be coming like her more and more. Just like her mom after she stopped having the affair with her teacher she started sleeping around with men as if it was nothing. She thought life was all about sex just like her mother had taught her.
Quote:
"Sex is the way of the world." (Sonnenberg 197).
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This shows just how much Susy's life is all about sex. Her mom taught her since when she was younger that it was the only thing that was fun in life other than drugs. She hated her mother for what she was but, I don"t that she ever realized that she was becoming just like her. This quote shows just how important this is to her in her life. Its as if her and her mother was addicted to it . They thought about it none stop. To them it was all that mattered.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Her Last Death ( 81 - 120 )
Summary
From what I read so far in the story was Susy has changed in a huge way. She has become more like her mother in a way but, not as bad. Shes hanging out with boys and even had a boyfriend. Her mom is becoming even worse. On Susy's 16 birthday her mom try to set her up with this boy that she liked so that she could lose her virginity on her birthday. However, in the end her mom ends up sleeping with the guy and the next day acted like she wasn't in the wrong. It was Susy's birthday and she would do such a thing. Susy has been going through a lot with her mother beating her and acting crazy. It seems like the relationship between them is only getting worst.
Quote " She pulled the cap off the needle keeping her eyes away from the gleaming thread of metal. Down the needle jammed through the rubber seal of the medicine bottle, and up it came again full of its own clear, cold blood. She looked down on her mother's thigh, blue and green and purple from countless injections." ( Sonnenberg 103 )
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I like this quote a lot . It explains in great detail about what her mother is doing to herself with her new drug addiction. I can picture what her mom is doing in my head. I can see how much she wants it in my head. I just shows how much this is affecting Susy. It shows how crazy her mom is for this drug and how she would put anything on the line for it.
From what I read so far in the story was Susy has changed in a huge way. She has become more like her mother in a way but, not as bad. Shes hanging out with boys and even had a boyfriend. Her mom is becoming even worse. On Susy's 16 birthday her mom try to set her up with this boy that she liked so that she could lose her virginity on her birthday. However, in the end her mom ends up sleeping with the guy and the next day acted like she wasn't in the wrong. It was Susy's birthday and she would do such a thing. Susy has been going through a lot with her mother beating her and acting crazy. It seems like the relationship between them is only getting worst.
Quote " She pulled the cap off the needle keeping her eyes away from the gleaming thread of metal. Down the needle jammed through the rubber seal of the medicine bottle, and up it came again full of its own clear, cold blood. She looked down on her mother's thigh, blue and green and purple from countless injections." ( Sonnenberg 103 )
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I like this quote a lot . It explains in great detail about what her mother is doing to herself with her new drug addiction. I can picture what her mom is doing in my head. I can see how much she wants it in my head. I just shows how much this is affecting Susy. It shows how crazy her mom is for this drug and how she would put anything on the line for it.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Her Last Death ( 41 - 80 )
Summary
Susy has grown apart from her mother in these chapters. She had to indoor a lot with her mother having injuries and doing drugs. Her mom has been acting crazy and at one point she had to leave Susy and her sister Penelope for 5 months she was hating her life and had bad pains. After she came back she wanted to move the kids to New Mexico but, Susy stayed behind to finish her year at school. When she finally was done she went to New Mexico to live with her mom where she stayed and had a very different life there. Her mom basically taught her how to do drugs and told her about her having sex at such a young age. After moving back to New York Susy wants to start boarding school because shes tired and sick of her mothers craziness.
Quote
" She was driving me crazy, inviting strangers into the car, doing way too much coke, flirting with my friends. I knew how a person could want to hurt her." ( Sonnenberg 68- 69 )
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I like this quote because it shows the turning point in Susy and her mom's relationship with each other. It shows why she ends up not loving her mother like any daughter does. It basically shows us how and why later on in life she doesn't want to really have a relationship with her mother. When she says , " I knew how a person could want to hurt her" just shows how much she is mad and angry with her mother .
Susy has grown apart from her mother in these chapters. She had to indoor a lot with her mother having injuries and doing drugs. Her mom has been acting crazy and at one point she had to leave Susy and her sister Penelope for 5 months she was hating her life and had bad pains. After she came back she wanted to move the kids to New Mexico but, Susy stayed behind to finish her year at school. When she finally was done she went to New Mexico to live with her mom where she stayed and had a very different life there. Her mom basically taught her how to do drugs and told her about her having sex at such a young age. After moving back to New York Susy wants to start boarding school because shes tired and sick of her mothers craziness.
Quote
" She was driving me crazy, inviting strangers into the car, doing way too much coke, flirting with my friends. I knew how a person could want to hurt her." ( Sonnenberg 68- 69 )
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I like this quote because it shows the turning point in Susy and her mom's relationship with each other. It shows why she ends up not loving her mother like any daughter does. It basically shows us how and why later on in life she doesn't want to really have a relationship with her mother. When she says , " I knew how a person could want to hurt her" just shows how much she is mad and angry with her mother .
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