Diary Of Nancy Brooks

This book is a diary that goes through the last two years of a young teenage girl's life, who got infected with the HIV virus after being date raped . The girl in the book is named Nancy and she is important enough to have her diary published because her life went from being a normal teenage girl with normal problems, to an abnormal girl with
AIDS and abnormal problems. She agreed to have her diary published so that other people who think that AIDS and rape can't ever happen to them can have a different perspective. The times in which this diary takes place is from April 14, 1991 to April 12,1993. the book starts out when Nancy is getting ready to go to a Garth Brooks concert with her friends El and Red, "Imagine me going to a concert! A Garth
Her aunt taught her how to see even the smallest things and memorize them and paint them or describe them to her aunt as if her aunt was blind,
"Aunt Thelma had me close my eyes and describe the picture of the tiny garden in the smallest detail" (p.198). Many people influenced Nancy's life from her aunt Thelma, who taught her self-discipline, to her three doctors, Dr. Sherian, Dr. Marx, and Dr. B, who all taught her about AIDS and how to deal with it. Her parents really weren't an influence in her life because they were too busy with their own. Nancy didn't really accomplish anything in the last two years of her life. She was too busy with AIDS and her rape situation. She did accomplish though to have her book published, which happened the last week of her life. A lady by the name of Dr. B came to
Idaho and talked to Nancy about publishing her diary and Nancy agreed with delight,
" Aunt Thelma excused herself and went up to the house, leaving me and Dr. B to talk about my book" (p.213). The biggest disappointment of Nancy's life was when she got raped. This affected her a lot because other than the fact that her self-esteem had gotten very low, but it