Patricia Mccormick's Suicide Analysis
In today’s society, self harm has become a taboo subject that we often ignore or shun people for. By closely analyzing Michael Thomas Ford’s Suicide notes, Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects, Cheryl Rainfield’s Scars and Patricia McCormick’s Cut, I have discovered that this sensitive subject, although rarely talked about, happens more than we think.
In Michael Thomas Ford’s Suicide notes, Jeff, The main character struggles with the idea that he has to hide his sexuality just to be accepted and how he copes with it. When Jeff attempts suicide, after self harming for so many years, he can't handle all the secrets that he’s been hiding. When he says he wants to “slip away with the old year into wherever it goes when...we throw it away” I think he …show more content…
When Callie first arrives at, what she nicknames, ‘sick minds’, she doesn’t interact with anyone, effectively closing herself off from the rest of her group, as well as her therapist. She has been thrown into an unfamiliar situation, where she has no control. Her first way of coping was by cutting, which allowed her to escape from a life of coming second to her brother “...I’m always just there”. However now that she isn’t allowed to cut, she gives herself power by not speaking believing that this was the best way to cope. “...when we feel were not in control, we do things to make us feel we have some power… You’d have so much more power if you’d just speak”. I believe that in unknown or new situations, we’ll do anything we can to give us some form of power or control over the unknown, even if this coping method can be destructive.”I think you’ve come up with a way to deal with the feeling you find overwhelming. Overwhelmingly bad, overwhelmingly frightening” However, sometimes the best thing we can to when someone isn’t okay is to be supportive “No...I don’t think you’re crazy at all”. By these last two quotes especially, McCormick tries to tell us that, even if we don’t always understand why or what someone is doing, the best we can do is continue to support them. Because sometimes, in Callie’s case for example, cutting is the only support someone
In Michael Thomas Ford’s Suicide notes, Jeff, The main character struggles with the idea that he has to hide his sexuality just to be accepted and how he copes with it. When Jeff attempts suicide, after self harming for so many years, he can't handle all the secrets that he’s been hiding. When he says he wants to “slip away with the old year into wherever it goes when...we throw it away” I think he …show more content…
When Callie first arrives at, what she nicknames, ‘sick minds’, she doesn’t interact with anyone, effectively closing herself off from the rest of her group, as well as her therapist. She has been thrown into an unfamiliar situation, where she has no control. Her first way of coping was by cutting, which allowed her to escape from a life of coming second to her brother “...I’m always just there”. However now that she isn’t allowed to cut, she gives herself power by not speaking believing that this was the best way to cope. “...when we feel were not in control, we do things to make us feel we have some power… You’d have so much more power if you’d just speak”. I believe that in unknown or new situations, we’ll do anything we can to give us some form of power or control over the unknown, even if this coping method can be destructive.”I think you’ve come up with a way to deal with the feeling you find overwhelming. Overwhelmingly bad, overwhelmingly frightening” However, sometimes the best thing we can to when someone isn’t okay is to be supportive “No...I don’t think you’re crazy at all”. By these last two quotes especially, McCormick tries to tell us that, even if we don’t always understand why or what someone is doing, the best we can do is continue to support them. Because sometimes, in Callie’s case for example, cutting is the only support someone