Connector Week One

1) Text to Self-
In the book the author conveys to the reader that her life at home is a lot more complicated than someone on the outside looking in would think. She talks about how she doesn't feel safe around her father, and how she has to fight to make her family proud of her. In a similar way I am trapped, trying to prove that I have purpose. The both of us struggle to keep ourselves as our families tear us down to nearly nothing, particularly her father and my grandfather.

2) Text to Self-
Janine Latus describes how her little sister, Amy, feels abandoned when Janine moves out at the age of eighteen. Amy feels as if she has lost the one person in her family that she can trust and rely on. Janine and Amy had always had a strong relationship with one another. In a way I know how Amy feels. A few years ago I lost someone very dear to me to cancer. I felt, and still feel, as if I have lost a part of myself. My uncle was the one person I could count on while growing up to keep me safe, talk to me when I felt like I had no meaning, and be my father when my father was never really around.

3)Text to Self-
All through her late teens, Janine screams at her family saying how unbearable it is to live with them and that she is going to leave as soon as she turns eighteen. I know how it is being under the pressure that you are a useless member of a family. The black sheep if it were. Janine Latus and I both face troubles with our parents and other family members. I have said countless times that I'm going to leave when I turn eighteen. However, like Janine, I too don't want to leave my younger sibling to be eaten alive by my family.