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    This section of text from Marya Hornbacher’s 1998 memoir, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, is a first-hand account of her experiences with eating disorders throughout her life. This depiction of her on-going battle with anorexia and bulimia for over fourteen years establishes her familiarity with the topic while appealing to the emotions of the audience as they experience the perspective of a person who has struggled with negative body image, eating disorders, and insecurity. Furthermore, by detailing some of her own experiences—many of which from when she was a child—without establishing a definitive opinion on the implications of negative body image, Hornbacher allows the reader to arrive to their own conclusions about the real-life dangers of the over-glamourized standard for the “perfect” body and the addictiveness of the quest for thinness. Hornbacher’s memoir was originally published nearly two decades ago, illustrating her experiences with eating disorders through the age of twenty-three; however, the content of her book is just as…

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    American author and freelance journalist, Marya Hornbacher when she was twenty-two, detailing her fourteen year struggle with eating disorders. Marya begins her autobiography by informing readers why she decided to write her story. Her primary intention is to inform public about her illness and her decision to get recovered. Furthermore, Marya stresses that she disagrees with the common beliefs and stereotypes about eating disorders. She explains that eating disorder cannot be simply cured…

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    Almost fifteen percent of Americans are suffering from a serious eating disorder according to mirasol.net. The memoir Wasted written by Marya Hornbacher is the brutally honest story of a young girl that has both anorexia and bulimia and the story of how she went through life. She goes through everything from being called fat by her own grandmother at age 6 to relapse into anorexia much later in life. Overall Marya Hornbacher is an insecure and impressionable yet independant person that can serve…

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    Marya Hornbacher is the author of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. Throughout her autobiography she recounts her struggles of having eating disorders and her battles to overcome the episodes. Hornbacher eloquently describes the physical and mental toll brought on by bulimia and anorexia. As a child, she had obsessive thoughts in having a thin figure, along with being observant with food she and others ate. Her memoir aims to give readers an insight into what people with eating…

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    Victoria Sarita 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…

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    I chose to read the book that was written by Marya Hornbacher. Hornbacher was a journalist who wrote a book to illustrate her journey of battling with eating disorders since 1974 until 1996. Through her book, she gave a lesson that eating disorders can happen to anyone and at any age. Her narrative writing described the logical sequence of how the events happened in her life. In other words, she wrote about her own journey of dealing with Bulimia and Anorexia. Furthermore, the genre of her book…

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    is in some ways a simple way of avoiding the pain of regular life. Every emotion, every struggle, is reduced to a war between you and food.” (Anonymous) Likewise fourteen year old Liz struggles with an eating disorder writing on her blog "An eating disorder... is in some ways a simple way of avoiding the pain of regular life. Every emotion, every struggle, is reduced to a war between you and food.”, Later her posts would be used in the same magazine that Marya Hornbacher was published in.…

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    so that they can look like models depicted in movies and magazines. Parents have an important role in their kids development in terms of healthy habits about nutrition and food. Parents can influence their children with their own image. It is okay for parents to put great importance on health rather than weight. An amazing thing parents can give to their children is the message and inspiration that their bodies are strong, healthy, and perfect just the way they are. When this is said to them it…

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    Although she saw many therapists and tried different medications, she was not cured, nor will she ever be. This reminds me of Marya Hornbacher’s (1998) experience with an eating disorder. Hornbacher (1998) argues that there is no pill, therapy, food or endless support from friends and family, “you fix it yourself” (p. 237, 1998); that it is a low movement from sick to “mostly well”. She states, “The illusion of time is that it heals all wounds, but the ones that have not been attended to only…

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