Girl Interrupted
I thought Girl, Interrupted was a good book. It described Susanna Kaysen’s life and the life of other girls around her during the time that she was in a mental hospital. Kaysen had tried to commit suicide in the past and often thought of it. She had also slept with her professor and may have also been depressed. She said that in order to commit suicide, you have to imagine yourself dead in order to do it. She also said that motive is paramount, which means for attention. She took fifty aspirin and went to the supermarket. After taking the pills, she felt that she had made a mistake and regretted doing it. As she was walking to the store she said she had lost her peripheral vision, her ears rang and her pulse was pounding. She said she wasn’t trying to kill herself, but trying to kill a part of her. She wanted to get rid of her suicidal part. She passed out at the meat counter at the supermarket. She described the last thing she saw was meat, bruised, bleeding and imprisoned in a tight wrapping. She got her stomach pumped and afterwards became a vegetarian. She knew it wasn’t just that meat was the last thing that she saw before she blacked out; it was something more than that. I think it could ha
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Approximate Word count = 1114
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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