Kassy Markey Journal #1A The Secret Language of Sisters by Luanne Rice
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What your sister was in a coma and it was really all your fault? What if you could have prevented all the pain and suffering? Roo, the person that got in the accident, was texting her other sister, Tilly. All Roo had to do that day was pick up her sister. Roo made a deadly mistake-texting and driving. In this journal, I will be clarifying, predicting and visualizing.
I feel like there are many specific points in the book that require more information. Roo and Tilly’s dad passed away. Even though the death of their father brought them together I also feel like it alienated them from each other. Although Roo’s …show more content…
So far, Roo has taken leaps and bounds in her healing process and I am excited to see what will happen and if my prediction was correct. Roo was in a coma because she had a stroke and that made her condition worse. While Tilly is talking to her sister in the hospital, she notices that Roo can move her left eye, as if in a response to her, “If you can move that much,” Tilly said, “why not more? That must mean you’re going to be okay, the stroke was bad, but you’re going to get better!” (Rice 114). Tilly and her mother are exhilarated as the doctors rush in and do tests and confirm what they already know; Roo was awake and aware. Roo is then going to be transferred to a different hospital in Boston who was better equipped to handle complicated neurological conditions. It is at this time that Tilly tells Roo that she was the one who caused the accident, at least in her eyes. She had been texting Roo while she was driving. Tilly felt responsible because Roo had been answering a text from her. In the Boston hospital, Roo has surgery to install a chip her brain, that in which is hooked up to a machine can read her brain waves and move a cursor to spell words. Based on the information that I have already read, I firmly believe that Roo will get
Pages this week: 259 862/600
What your sister was in a coma and it was really all your fault? What if you could have prevented all the pain and suffering? Roo, the person that got in the accident, was texting her other sister, Tilly. All Roo had to do that day was pick up her sister. Roo made a deadly mistake-texting and driving. In this journal, I will be clarifying, predicting and visualizing.
I feel like there are many specific points in the book that require more information. Roo and Tilly’s dad passed away. Even though the death of their father brought them together I also feel like it alienated them from each other. Although Roo’s …show more content…
So far, Roo has taken leaps and bounds in her healing process and I am excited to see what will happen and if my prediction was correct. Roo was in a coma because she had a stroke and that made her condition worse. While Tilly is talking to her sister in the hospital, she notices that Roo can move her left eye, as if in a response to her, “If you can move that much,” Tilly said, “why not more? That must mean you’re going to be okay, the stroke was bad, but you’re going to get better!” (Rice 114). Tilly and her mother are exhilarated as the doctors rush in and do tests and confirm what they already know; Roo was awake and aware. Roo is then going to be transferred to a different hospital in Boston who was better equipped to handle complicated neurological conditions. It is at this time that Tilly tells Roo that she was the one who caused the accident, at least in her eyes. She had been texting Roo while she was driving. Tilly felt responsible because Roo had been answering a text from her. In the Boston hospital, Roo has surgery to install a chip her brain, that in which is hooked up to a machine can read her brain waves and move a cursor to spell words. Based on the information that I have already read, I firmly believe that Roo will get