Victoria Sarita
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Title: Wasted
Author: Marya Hornbacher
Vocabulary:
Ramifications: a consequence of an action or event
Anorexia: an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat
Candor: the quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness
Summary: The book Wasted by Marya Hornbacher is about her battle with first bulimia which turned into anorexia later on in her life. She began becoming bulimic when she was just 9 years-old. When Marya began school in the fall when she was nine, she would look at the lunch tray and think, if she threw up then she would have to do it again. Marya would remember when she was five how her and her friend used to look for food to eat in Marya’s kitchen. They were competitive about what foods they both have at home and which foods were unhealthy and made you fat. Growing up as a child she never ate normally like an average kid would. In 1989, she was 15 and thought she was old enough to do whatever she wanted and she did. Marya would smoke, skip school, and come in and out of school drunk and high. When ninth grade ended, for summer she got a job at McDonald’s. There she flirted with guys asking for their orders, and vomited every single day she worked there. When she finished high school, …show more content…
Life isn’t about being skinny because society thinks that’s the way people should look and it is not worth losing your life over it either. I think that this book shows you a different perspective on life through the eyes of someone who has been through anorexia and bulimia. Hundreds of people are in the battle of eating disorders, this memoir might help lower that amount of people by showing them what a horrible experience it is and making them think twice before they doing something that might ruin their lives
711
Title: Wasted
Author: Marya Hornbacher
Vocabulary:
Ramifications: a consequence of an action or event
Anorexia: an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat
Candor: the quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness
Summary: The book Wasted by Marya Hornbacher is about her battle with first bulimia which turned into anorexia later on in her life. She began becoming bulimic when she was just 9 years-old. When Marya began school in the fall when she was nine, she would look at the lunch tray and think, if she threw up then she would have to do it again. Marya would remember when she was five how her and her friend used to look for food to eat in Marya’s kitchen. They were competitive about what foods they both have at home and which foods were unhealthy and made you fat. Growing up as a child she never ate normally like an average kid would. In 1989, she was 15 and thought she was old enough to do whatever she wanted and she did. Marya would smoke, skip school, and come in and out of school drunk and high. When ninth grade ended, for summer she got a job at McDonald’s. There she flirted with guys asking for their orders, and vomited every single day she worked there. When she finished high school, …show more content…
Life isn’t about being skinny because society thinks that’s the way people should look and it is not worth losing your life over it either. I think that this book shows you a different perspective on life through the eyes of someone who has been through anorexia and bulimia. Hundreds of people are in the battle of eating disorders, this memoir might help lower that amount of people by showing them what a horrible experience it is and making them think twice before they doing something that might ruin their lives