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Ashley Cox

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Almost Moon Alice Sebold Coping illness Amy Scribner

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    • Ashley Cox
      Ashley Cox on 24 Jan 11
       
      The main character has to not only deal with that but try to hide the evidence of what she has done
    • Ashley Cox
      Ashley Cox on 24 Jan 11
       
      Her having to cope with her mothers illness let her to the action that took place
  • Helen Knightly has spent her life coping with her mother's mental illness. Often cruel and distant, her mother suffers agoraphobia so severe she can't leave the house without being wrapped head to toe in blankets. When Helen gets her first period, her mother—who can't bear not to be a part of this rite of passage—accompanies her to the drugstore fully cloaked in blankets.
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  •   After her father's death, Helen spends years taking care of her aging mother, driven by a toxic mix of duty, guilt and resentment.  
  • "For years I had done my penance for blaming someone who was essentially helpless," says Helen. "I had warmed baby food and fed it to her with long pink spoons pilfered from Baskin-Robbins. I had carted her to doctors' appointments, first with blankets and then with towels to hide the world from her."
  • Finally, Helen snaps. During the next 24 hours, she grapples with what she's done, and what she should do next. Her still-devoted ex-husband flies in from across country to help her cover her tracks, but ultimately, Helen has to decide whether to face up to her mother's death.
  • The Almost Moon is incredibly fast-paced; it's the jittery, forceful story of a woman who sifts through her past to discover what brought her to such desperation.
  • Ashley Cox on 24 Jan 11
     
    This article tells you a little more about the author and also some about the story of The Almost Moon. It show how the main character has to deal with her mothers sickness after her fathers death and that leads her to the action that she does which is killing her mother. Unlike in Lovely bones how someones actions leads to people having to cope with the situation at hand but in The Almost Moon the main character having to cope with her mothers illness leads her to take action
Alissa Jones

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The author's purpose of the passage is to critique Alice Sebold's novel, Almost Moon. The effectiveness of the structure of the argument is very effective, and stays consistent. The evidence given ...

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