Have you ever had the feeling or thought that nobody understands you, you cannot talk to anyone or everything that happens is your fault? What would you do if you found yourself taking more care of your mother more than she is taking care of you? The author, Cea Sunrise Person, struggles with her life and accepting whom she. In the memoir North of Normal, Person depicts the hardships in life she experienced as a young child all the way until she left to be on her own at age thirteen. Between her mother’s constant heartbreaks, smoking pot and having a child at age thirteen herself, Person never had the guidance and support she needed at a young age. Person’s lack of a sturdy home and support affected her positively in the long run. Person wants
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Throughout the memoir, Person repeats the verb “crush” in many forms. Her mother was “crushing her” into her chest, and “crushed [her] soaking body” after being pulled from a river (36,41). Person’s repetition of the verb “crush” implies even though most people associate the wilderness with eat or be eaten or survival of the fittest, when she most needed her mother and could not find her, Person could still count on her to try and make things right and knows that her mother does love her. A person to listen and give Person the leadership she needs would have kept Person from falling in the river to begin with because she would have had someone looking after her rather that moping around and not watching after her child. In the memoir Person demonstrates the hardships of her family had throughout the years, “…spruce tree crashing inside our tipi. It had just fallen shy of Grandma Jeanne’s head, clawing a hole in the canvas from the tipi poles right down to the ground. The loose canvas thrashed in the wind. Snowflakes stung at our faces” (36). Person depicts the image of the hardships in life and her different her life is than most others. Person focuses on the weirdness in her young childhood and tries her hardest to keep her life hidden from other in fear that people will not like her. A person
Throughout the memoir, Person repeats the verb “crush” in many forms. Her mother was “crushing her” into her chest, and “crushed [her] soaking body” after being pulled from a river (36,41). Person’s repetition of the verb “crush” implies even though most people associate the wilderness with eat or be eaten or survival of the fittest, when she most needed her mother and could not find her, Person could still count on her to try and make things right and knows that her mother does love her. A person to listen and give Person the leadership she needs would have kept Person from falling in the river to begin with because she would have had someone looking after her rather that moping around and not watching after her child. In the memoir Person demonstrates the hardships of her family had throughout the years, “…spruce tree crashing inside our tipi. It had just fallen shy of Grandma Jeanne’s head, clawing a hole in the canvas from the tipi poles right down to the ground. The loose canvas thrashed in the wind. Snowflakes stung at our faces” (36). Person depicts the image of the hardships in life and her different her life is than most others. Person focuses on the weirdness in her young childhood and tries her hardest to keep her life hidden from other in fear that people will not like her. A person