After returning from her 5 month rehab program, Daphne wants to take both Penelope and Susanna to New Mexico to start over, so Daphne can get away from all the drugs available for her in New York. The only problem is that Susy is a couple of months from completing 7th grade and she does not want to leave. She ends up being able to stay because her friend, Marcy, took her in. While Susy was finishing up the last couple of months her mother and Penelope moved on to Taos. There Daphne found another guy, Randall, to be her boyfriend and she also found Michael, to have affairs with. At one point, Susy, being so used to being able to do whatever she wanted, went down to her old apartment to collect the mail but then got scolded by Marcy's father for leaving the house without telling anybody.
When 7th grade is completed, 12 year old Susy flies down to Taos to be with her mother and sister. On the plane, the man next to her begins to hit on her saying, she was way too attractive for a twelve-year old and gave her his card. Over the summer, Daphne got both girls into plays and even got both girls a job at the movie theater Randall owned. Susy developed a crush on her mother's drug suppler, a seventeen-year old boy named Lincoln. One day when Susy was at work, her mother brought her to the bathroom and started punching her in the stomach saying that this was Penelope's territory and Susy needs to step down because this is one thing that Penny can have that she cannot. When Susy came out of the bathroom after crying, Randall and Daphne were there and she told her daughter to "stop being dramatic in front of Randall". Susy witnessed countless times of Daphne inhaling cocaine from a little spoon and gave some to Susy to try. Susy then said she prefers cocaine rather than alcohol because alcohol leaves you with a sense of unease while cocaine seems to speed everything up. Lincoln would try time and time again to get Susy to smoke marijuana with him but she refused. By the end of the summer, Lincoln had left for college and Susy had been absolutely heart broken, calling him her first love.
By the beginning of Susy's 8th grade year, the family had moved back to New York so Susy could finish up middle school with all her friends. She was assigned to take a test to get into one of the boarding schools in the Northeastern area, however the night before Susy began to get these very sharp pains in her stomach, like her mother would get in her back, so Daphne gave Susy some type of painkiller. She was still able to take the test, and even visited schools that interested her. One night when she was staying at Marcy's house the acceptance letters came in and Susy found out she gotten into her second choice and was ecstatic. Her father did not attend her graduation stating he did not believe in organized goodbyes and her mother was lost in the sea of faces as she looked down. When she finally found her she told her they were going back home, that Paul, her friend Elise's brother, was waiting for them out on the sidewalk. The next time she saw Paul was walking out of her mother's room shirtless.
Susy moved into a boarding school with the help of Paul and Daphne. Upon staying for a while, Susy developed a crush on Larry, a senior, and it was with him she had her first kiss. When Susy called to tell her mother, her mother had news of hr own as well. She had begun to date Lincoln when he returned back from college. This upset Susy so she confided in her friend Katy. Larry broke things of with Susy and she set her sights on another boy, Hammond. Once when he was walking her back to her room, he pushed her behind bushes and tried to get her to do things she did not want to do yet. When she told her mother she demanded Susy press charges but Susy denied and that was the end of it. Daphne even recommended for Susy to get a diaphragm, a type of birth control, be put in so she would not risk a pregnancy.
QUOTE:
"I hate you," I screamed. The hatred raced through my body and wanted violence, but she was the only one that got to be violent," (Sonnenberg, 79)
REACTION:
I knew that over time, the more and more Susy was going to have to be a mother to her little sister, her mother and her self she was going to resent what her mother is making her do and ultimately going to resent her mother. I think now also, Susy is starting to act more and more like her mother. For example, Daphne sleeps around and has multiple affairs and Susy is starting to show signs of that in her future because once one guy is done with her, like Larry, she moves to the next, Hammond.
When 7th grade is completed, 12 year old Susy flies down to Taos to be with her mother and sister. On the plane, the man next to her begins to hit on her saying, she was way too attractive for a twelve-year old and gave her his card. Over the summer, Daphne got both girls into plays and even got both girls a job at the movie theater Randall owned. Susy developed a crush on her mother's drug suppler, a seventeen-year old boy named Lincoln. One day when Susy was at work, her mother brought her to the bathroom and started punching her in the stomach saying that this was Penelope's territory and Susy needs to step down because this is one thing that Penny can have that she cannot. When Susy came out of the bathroom after crying, Randall and Daphne were there and she told her daughter to "stop being dramatic in front of Randall". Susy witnessed countless times of Daphne inhaling cocaine from a little spoon and gave some to Susy to try. Susy then said she prefers cocaine rather than alcohol because alcohol leaves you with a sense of unease while cocaine seems to speed everything up. Lincoln would try time and time again to get Susy to smoke marijuana with him but she refused. By the end of the summer, Lincoln had left for college and Susy had been absolutely heart broken, calling him her first love.
By the beginning of Susy's 8th grade year, the family had moved back to New York so Susy could finish up middle school with all her friends. She was assigned to take a test to get into one of the boarding schools in the Northeastern area, however the night before Susy began to get these very sharp pains in her stomach, like her mother would get in her back, so Daphne gave Susy some type of painkiller. She was still able to take the test, and even visited schools that interested her. One night when she was staying at Marcy's house the acceptance letters came in and Susy found out she gotten into her second choice and was ecstatic. Her father did not attend her graduation stating he did not believe in organized goodbyes and her mother was lost in the sea of faces as she looked down. When she finally found her she told her they were going back home, that Paul, her friend Elise's brother, was waiting for them out on the sidewalk. The next time she saw Paul was walking out of her mother's room shirtless.
Susy moved into a boarding school with the help of Paul and Daphne. Upon staying for a while, Susy developed a crush on Larry, a senior, and it was with him she had her first kiss. When Susy called to tell her mother, her mother had news of hr own as well. She had begun to date Lincoln when he returned back from college. This upset Susy so she confided in her friend Katy. Larry broke things of with Susy and she set her sights on another boy, Hammond. Once when he was walking her back to her room, he pushed her behind bushes and tried to get her to do things she did not want to do yet. When she told her mother she demanded Susy press charges but Susy denied and that was the end of it. Daphne even recommended for Susy to get a diaphragm, a type of birth control, be put in so she would not risk a pregnancy.
QUOTE:
"I hate you," I screamed. The hatred raced through my body and wanted violence, but she was the only one that got to be violent," (Sonnenberg, 79)
REACTION:
I knew that over time, the more and more Susy was going to have to be a mother to her little sister, her mother and her self she was going to resent what her mother is making her do and ultimately going to resent her mother. I think now also, Susy is starting to act more and more like her mother. For example, Daphne sleeps around and has multiple affairs and Susy is starting to show signs of that in her future because once one guy is done with her, like Larry, she moves to the next, Hammond.
why can't Suzy act with violence?
ReplyDeleteHow did Susy manage school with all her family troubles?