Breaking Night Blog 2
Continuing with Breaking Night by Liz Murray, her parents have not been doing as many drugs as usual. The reason for that is that her mom has been having many breakdowns, and whenever her mom has a breakdown (a side effect of her schizophrenia*), she gets sent to North Central Bronx Hospital's psych ward. During this time, her mom can't do drugs and her dad stays sober to take care of Liz and her sister. I have learned that you should be grateful for whatever you have. She may not get fed everyday but she should still be grateful for the fact that her parents do truly care.
I have also learned that sometimes in order to get yourself and your family what is needed you have to do some weird and uncomfortable things. Liz has had to pretend to work at gas stations and ask people if they want her to pump their gas. Then, they tip her and she made pretty good money there. Although, there was a catch: workers would come and chase her off the property a few times a day. It was really sad, to me, when she, for the first time, had enough money on her own to buy a happy meal from McDonald's. When we think about today's world, a good percentage of people have enough money to get a happy meal from McDonald's. So, to just think about how happy and grateful she was to be able to have an actual meal from a fast-food place was kind of heartbreaking. Her harsh, unbelievable experiences have made me so much more grateful for the things I have even if it's not much.
*- schizophrenia: "a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation."
Works Cited
Murray, Liz. Breaking Night. Century, 2011.
Google Search, Google, www.google.com/search?q=schizophrenia%2Bdefinition&oq=schizophenia%2Bdef&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.5706j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8.
I have also learned that sometimes in order to get yourself and your family what is needed you have to do some weird and uncomfortable things. Liz has had to pretend to work at gas stations and ask people if they want her to pump their gas. Then, they tip her and she made pretty good money there. Although, there was a catch: workers would come and chase her off the property a few times a day. It was really sad, to me, when she, for the first time, had enough money on her own to buy a happy meal from McDonald's. When we think about today's world, a good percentage of people have enough money to get a happy meal from McDonald's. So, to just think about how happy and grateful she was to be able to have an actual meal from a fast-food place was kind of heartbreaking. Her harsh, unbelievable experiences have made me so much more grateful for the things I have even if it's not much.
*- schizophrenia: "a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation."
Works Cited
Murray, Liz. Breaking Night. Century, 2011.
Google Search, Google, www.google.com/search?q=schizophrenia%2Bdefinition&oq=schizophenia%2Bdef&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.5706j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8.
I only got to eat a Happy Meal about once a year as a little girl. I was so grateful when I could go. My 4th birthday party was at a McDonalds. It was do awesome at the time.
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