Do you think that the way we grow up has a lasting effect on us? The things we go through and are surrounded by as children can shape our personality and how we deal with things? In Missing you, Metropolis written by Gary Jackson the underlying theme of "Machine" (65) and "Emergency" (70-72) is a very deep and difficult subject to talk about, suicide. The breakage of a person and of a friendship. The way we deal with our past make us who we are, but how much can a person handle before they break? All the things holding Stuart together broke, Jackson was broken as a result of it. These poems propose an idea that we should handle suicide differently because, a suicide effects not only the person, but the people around them, it breaks them.
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If we were to place ourselves in Jacksons position, with his best friend in the hospital after a suicide attempt, what kinds of thought and feelings would you be experiencing? Someone that is so important to you has just tried to kill themselves, it could've been the last time you saw them. We must consider, what would drive someone to do such a thing? As for Stuart, I believe that it was all just too much for him, throughout the book he showed signs of wanting something different, being obsessed with blood, and he didn't have a supportive family. All of this can build up and just become too overwhelming for someone and push them until they break.
In an attempt to save Stuart, Jackson writes, "Desperate to impart some final words of empathy/ that will convince him to stay with me,/ I tell him it feels like a part of me// is in this place." (65) He's trying to give Stuart some reason to stay, if you can't find a reason in yourself to stay then stay for me. When you look at Stuart's reaction to this, you can tell he has lost all hope in his life. He has his friend since childhood asking him to stay and laughs in his face, as if it were a …show more content…
The author Jackson changes from his perspective in "Machine" (65) to Stuarts perspective in "Emergency" (70-72). Jackson changed perspectives to show the thoughts and warning signs of a person who is at risk for suicide. After Stuart is released from the hospital, Jackson writes, "we pretend// nothing's wrong." (70) This poem depicts the reactions of how people choose to deal with a suicide attempt. They chose to distract themselves by talking about average things. They are too afraid to confront what is really going on, because in this society having something be "wrong" with you is deemed to be something you should be ashamed of and not talk about. That's the real issue with suicide attempts is that no one knows how to approach them and instead they just get swept under the
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If we were to place ourselves in Jacksons position, with his best friend in the hospital after a suicide attempt, what kinds of thought and feelings would you be experiencing? Someone that is so important to you has just tried to kill themselves, it could've been the last time you saw them. We must consider, what would drive someone to do such a thing? As for Stuart, I believe that it was all just too much for him, throughout the book he showed signs of wanting something different, being obsessed with blood, and he didn't have a supportive family. All of this can build up and just become too overwhelming for someone and push them until they break.
In an attempt to save Stuart, Jackson writes, "Desperate to impart some final words of empathy/ that will convince him to stay with me,/ I tell him it feels like a part of me// is in this place." (65) He's trying to give Stuart some reason to stay, if you can't find a reason in yourself to stay then stay for me. When you look at Stuart's reaction to this, you can tell he has lost all hope in his life. He has his friend since childhood asking him to stay and laughs in his face, as if it were a …show more content…
The author Jackson changes from his perspective in "Machine" (65) to Stuarts perspective in "Emergency" (70-72). Jackson changed perspectives to show the thoughts and warning signs of a person who is at risk for suicide. After Stuart is released from the hospital, Jackson writes, "we pretend// nothing's wrong." (70) This poem depicts the reactions of how people choose to deal with a suicide attempt. They chose to distract themselves by talking about average things. They are too afraid to confront what is really going on, because in this society having something be "wrong" with you is deemed to be something you should be ashamed of and not talk about. That's the real issue with suicide attempts is that no one knows how to approach them and instead they just get swept under the