Saturday, October 24, 2009
Chapter 4 - Joe
Yolanda is in a mental hospital, telling Dr. Payne about her relationship with her husband, John. She begins to suspect John when he started calling her crazy and said she needed to see a therapist. She also mistrusted him when he began to make a list of the pros and cons of marrying her. Yolanda leaves him to go to her parents when she couldn't understand what he was saying anymore. But, she begins to quote and misquote books, poems, and songs so much that her parents took her to a mental institution to help her get better. Yolanda also developed an allergy to certain words, such as, love, alive and her own name. She repeats the words over, determined to get rid of the allergy.
--Janet
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When I read that Yolanda developed an allergy to those words, I couldn't help but think "how could someone develop an allergy to words?!"
ReplyDeleteI don't think that it's an actual "allergy", I think that it's just a word to describe how she felt. I think what Janet is trying to say is that she cringes at the sound of some of these words, such as love, because of her past memories of her husband calling her crazy.
ReplyDelete-Angelina . :D
The way Yolanda made a list of pros and cons made me think of an episode of Two And A Half Men. Alan would make a list of pros and cons on getting back with Judith.
ReplyDelete-Michelle Xiaa(: