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I want the audience to take away that due to a physical issue, head trauma, Cadence, the protaganist, is having a lot of mental health issues.
Before the accident
“We laughed, panicky laughs, and shouted that it was the stupidest idea to get in the water. What had we been thinking? There were sharks off the coast, everybody knew that”(E. Lockhart 12).
“It was love, and it hit me so hard I leaned against the screen door that still stood between us, just to stay vertical” (17).
(Jumping to conclusions)
“That first night, I cried and bit my fingers and drank wine I snuck from the clairmont pantry. I spun violently into the sky, raging and banging stars from their moorings, swirling and vomiting”(18).
“Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide, and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound, then from my eyes, my ears , my mouth. It tasted like salt and failure”. (E. lockhart 6)
This term can be used for both short, long and permanent memory loss.
The struggle
This term can be used for both sort, long and permanent memory loss.
“Hearing the Cracker Jack story and helping Granddad down the stairs. The tire swing, the basement, the perimeter. Gat and I in one another’s arms. Gat seeing me bleed. Asking me questions. Dressing my wounds. I don’t remember much else”(E. Lockhart 53).
"Granddad hasn’t wired Beechwood and cell phones don’t get reception there, so I began writing emails. Different from my pitiful voice messages, these were charming, darling notes from a person without headaches.”
“I WASN’T ENTIRELY surprised they didn’t answer”(42).
“I nod. It is nice to hear him say that. I wish I weren’t so high.”
“You told me you weren’t a drug addict, but you have pills on your dresser.” Taft is
petulant.“Tell them to stay out of my room,” I say.
“If you’re a drug addict,” says Taft, “there is something you need to know” (102).
“But the year after my accident, I missed days and even weeks of school. I failed my classes, and the principal informed me I would have to repeat junior year. I stopped soccer and tennis. I couldn’t babysit. I couldn’t drive. The friends I’d had weakened into acquaintances” (39).
She has realized
“I used to be strong, but now I am weak”
“I used to be pretty, but now I look sick”(E. Lockhart 4).