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Girl, Interrupted depicts the journey of a young lady, Susanna, from craziness back to sanity. After graduating high school, Susanna is the only one from her graduating class that does not go on to college. On the contrary, she does not want to follow in her mother's footsteps and instead wants to be a writer. However, Susanna takes a bottle of aspirin with vodka in an attempt to take control of her emotions. Her parents heavily influence her to check herself into a Psychiatric Hospital where she is to have some rest and get some help. At this hospital, Susanna meets many other girls that have illnesses that range from pathological lying to anorexia. She meets one girl in particular, Lisa, a sociopath, who has great influence over Susanna's behavior. From the beginning, Susanna and Lisa's relationship is intense as Susanna struggles to stay in control of her life while Lisa tries to control it herself. After an incident at the Hospital, Lisa and Susanna run away to a former inmate's, Daisy, house. Lisa mentally...
After this incident Susanna goes back to the Hospital to get better and Lisa runs away. At the end of the movie, Lisa returns, steals Susanna's diary, and reads it to the other girls. Susanna stands up to Lisa and in the end Susanna is released while Lisa stays at the hospital.
The movie was very enjoyable as it portrayed the coming of age of a teenage girl. I do not necessarily think that she was crazy or severely mentally ill, but she was going through a time of confusion in her life, one that many teenage girls go through. The movie had enjoyable moments when all the girls came together in the tunnels and played games and went through the doctor's files. It was reminiscent of teenage mischief. But it also had not so enjoyable moments like Daisy's suicide and Lisa's tormenting of the other girls at the hospital. However, the plot was very well-developed. It had a beginning which set up the rest of the story. It made it quite clear that even…
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Wick, D. & Ryder, W. (Producers), & Mangold, J. (Director). December 21, 1999. Girl, Interrupted [Motion picture]. United States: Columbia Pictures.
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Since they are blank pages, the women possess no direct say in which man will use her to write his story. The result is that men will compete over her and she will remain largely passive in this pursuit. This motif is used by Chaucer both within the Miller's and Knight's tales, and between these two pilgrims; men compete for women in both stories, just as the Knight and
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The novel opens seven years after Gabo's mother, Ximena, was murdered by coyotes -- or paid traffickers -- during an attempt to cross the border. Her mutilated body was found, her organs gone -- sold most likely. Because of the fear surrounding this border town and the lure of the other side, all of the characters become consumed with finding Rafa. These people are neglected and abused. Like other fiction
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