book review girl Interrupted
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"And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: world of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it."
These are the words of Susanna Kaysen, yes, a 'lunatic', as people would call her. This memoir of Susanna Kaysen is the story of a young girl; a girl interrupted at life. This is the story of a young girl's mind taken over by itself, forcing thoughts of suicide and a state of disarray into Susanna's psyche, otherwise known as mental illness.
This is the story of Susanna's life in Mclean Hospital, yearning for release form the hospital; yearning for release from her body that she was trapped inside of, and leaving an insane mask on its face. Susanna needed to be freed from the little white dome of the hospital, the little white dome of her head. The hospital was enclosing Susanna's spirit in a little white dome and strangling her, until she was freed from the dome and gained the ground of the real world that she had lost two whole years of.
When Susanna realized that the dentist had put her to sleep without her knowing, and took time off of her life, she was so mentally disturbed that she threw a tantrum...