Quotes From Cry Silent Tears

In the second half of “Cry Silent Tears” Joe is still getting beaten and sexually abused but goes to school, he learns to speak again and makes a friend Pete. But he soon leaves to another school and Joe decided he can trust people anymore because they always leave him. When he finds out Pete is moving schools he can’t take it and run away, on the way he runs into a group of boys and plays football with them. They become close and he feels like he can tell them about what happened to him but they soon cannot keep it a secret and they tell their parents which lead to the police searching for him. After they are able to bring him home he goes into child care houses and his mother always claiming she wants him back but he always ends up going back. One day he decided he really wants to leave his old life and goes to New York, which then he meets a girl and starts a new life. Still talking to his younger brother Thomas.
243 “” This quote shows that he really doesn’t trust people anymore because he is scared to get hurt and left alone because that has happened to him too many times. Even if there is a lady on the line he still can't trust them because he’s scared.

The writer writes very realistic, he doesn’t make the swear words come out to make it friendly language but writes like a story. Not as if he’s writing his story in a journal but to an audience 15 - adult, he doesn’t use a lot of figurative language but uses more descriptive language. I like this because he is able to paint a better picture inside my head of how his cellar smelled or looked, or how bad the hits were on his skin from his other.

When getting sexually abused his mother ued him for money by selling him to Uncle Douglas, she told him that he is going to become a child porn star. Since he went to school on weekdays every weekday he would go to where Douglas had his place set up, there were also other kids there which they were also child porn