One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones (Post 3)

As I was reading two different poems within this book, I realized they were similar and in the very beginning and near the end of the novel. The author wants us to connect to and think back to the first poem when we read the second one. When in the first poem she seems ok at this point in time,make lost her mother and has to live with her father but, she still has her beat friend and her boyfriend. When in the second one she basically believes she has lost everything and is lower than low. Both these poems sum up Ruby's conflict that has happened over the course of the text.

"American Airlines Flight 161 

I'm not that depressed,

Considering that this 

gigantic silver bullet with wings

is blasting me away from my entire life,

Away from Lizzir Brody,

my best friend in the world,

away from Ray Johnson,

my first real boyfriend...

Depressed?

Who? Me?" (Sones, 1) 

"But I'm Not That Depressed

Considering that

my best friend since preschool

stole the love of my life

even though she knew

It would tear me to shreds...

Depressed?

Who? Me?

Yes.

Hideously.

Not to mention way pissed off.

Wouldn't you be? " (Sones, 224) 

With this set up also with the same lines used in the end it brings us to think of the conflict that Ruby went through earlier, and realize how it transferred to her current conflicts. Also in the first poem she asked "Depressed?/ Who? Me?" But she never answered the cliff hanger question, she let us decide if she was or not. While in the second poem she states it out loud, straight forward, so we get the message, "Depressed?/ Who? Me?/ Yes./ Hideously./ Not to mention way pissed off." Here she  states, yes I am depressed but I'm also mad, meaning she has multiple emotions tangling up in her. The end of the second poem ends with a question "Wouldn't you be?" Putting emphasis on the "you" is making the audience feel the sorrow and pull us into her shoes and feel her pain. While I was reading this I did feel her pain and sorrow and hate. I wanted to throw the book across the room and just collapse and cry, yet I didn't. I continued to read to find out what happened next. 

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