I read the book Sickened by Julie Gregory. It is a sad story about a little girl whose mother is psychotic. Her mother would take her to so many different doctors and get her tested for diseases that Julie was nowhere near having, but she would show one small symptom like a headache, and her mother would take her to a doctor because she has a disease. When the doctor would say that everything came back normal, she would go to another doctor for another opinion and would not stop until they gave Julie medication. Julie was a victim of Munchausen by proxy. Once she started getting on medications, her mom would use the medicine to actually make Julie sick. Julie lived her life like this until she was almost an adult and to escape what her mother was doing to her was a painful thing to do. I would definitely give this book 4 stars. It was a book that has a lot of emotion in it and you instantly want to help Julie. You get yourself emotionally involved and it really makes you sick thinking that people actually do this to their kids! It makes me so mad. However, this book was amazing and Julie's story deserves to be heard be everyone. "I mean I try to get her into the 4-h, she's tired. We get in the car, she is carsick. i mean, I'm a good mother, what did I do to deserve this?" This is what her mother said to her doctor at one point. I think it is significant because it really shows how messed up her mom is if she actually thinks she is a good mother. Also, this made me so upset when I read this because she says, "what did I do to deserve this?" are you kidding me?! You are a terrible mother and deserve nothing but the worst punishment. I cannot even believe someone can do this to a child, and then not understand why it is not okay. And her mother thinks this way during the whole book, she is mad when people tell her that her daughter is not sick. And when people call her a bad mom, she flips. This relates to what we are doing in class because we are talking about memoirs. Memoirs are boring unless there is emotion put in to it. Julie Gregory puts so much emotion into this that you really just want to climb into the book and help her. When you read a memoir, you want to use good sensory detail and she uses so much, I could literally picture everything she described, even her mother's awful voice.
I would definitely give this book 4 stars. It was a book that has a lot of emotion in it and you instantly want to help Julie. You get yourself emotionally involved and it really makes you sick thinking that people actually do this to their kids! It makes me so mad. However, this book was amazing and Julie's story deserves to be heard be everyone.
"I mean I try to get her into the 4-h, she's tired. We get in the car, she is carsick. i mean, I'm a good mother, what did I do to deserve this?" This is what her mother said to her doctor at one point. I think it is significant because it really shows how messed up her mom is if she actually thinks she is a good mother. Also, this made me so upset when I read this because she says, "what did I do to deserve this?" are you kidding me?! You are a terrible mother and deserve nothing but the worst punishment. I cannot even believe someone can do this to a child, and then not understand why it is not okay. And her mother thinks this way during the whole book, she is mad when people tell her that her daughter is not sick. And when people call her a bad mom, she flips.
This relates to what we are doing in class because we are talking about memoirs. Memoirs are boring unless there is emotion put in to it. Julie Gregory puts so much emotion into this that you really just want to climb into the book and help her. When you read a memoir, you want to use good sensory detail and she uses so much, I could literally picture everything she described, even her mother's awful voice.