Alcoholism In Truman

“I like humiliating Cooper. I like causing him pain. It feels good. It feels better than his dad’s whiskey, better than his mom’s weed. Because for just a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I’m not alone.” Trapped within her thoughts of anguish, depravity, and the confinement of the death of her brother, Andi struggles with drugs, thoughts of suicide, and unmended ties between her family, seeming to have disintegrated after the death of Truman, Andi’s younger brother. Due to the passing of Truman in the near recent time of two years ago, Andi has since superseded her emotional pain with unhealthy substances, such as drugs or alcohol. As the story first takes place in the modern day streets of New York,
Realizing the extensive behavior of both his ex-wife and daughter, he unrightfully decides that Andi’s mother must be psychiatrically hospitalized and Andi would come to Paris with him to further his genetics testing and allowing for Andi to complete her senior thesis. Yet, against Andi’s wishes, her father soon develops a role in her life, contradicting Andi’s angered thoughts that he held his works higher than his family, that her father held no feelings of Truman’s death. As Andi and her father arrive in Paris, Andi finds comfort in few things besides her guitar and her music. In attempt to open the case of a 1700s guitar, Andi uses Truman’s key, the key he gave to his father, the key to the Universe. “I want the key,” he said. “The key to the universe. To life. To the future and the past. To love and hate. Truth. God. It’s there. Inside of us. In the genome. The answer to every question. If I can just find
As time progresses throughout the novel, also within Andi’s life, Andi sympathizes and relates to the words written centuries ago, the words of tragedy and loss. As Andi continues to read the words of Alexandrine, she learns the story of the lost King of France, locked away in a tower by Robespierre. Throughout the entries written in the diary, Andi learns of the struggles faced during the time of the Revolution, the desperation and drastic actions taken by Alexandrine to survive the hardships. All the while, Andi’s father continues his genetic testing and research of a heart, possibly belonging to Louis-Charles, the Lost King of France. To gain a better understanding of the times, Andi goes in search of answers in the catacombs of Paris, but feels the crushing weight of the lives lost and the connection between the past and the present. Yet, as Andi still continues her reading of Alexandrine’s diary, she conceptualizes the ties of the forced character played out by Alexandrine and the demands of the royal family for her capture. In this given entry, words show of the capture of the royal family, a major component to the history of