Cut

Chelsea Stephens Abood 6

The book "Cut" is a great story written by Patricia McCormick. The story is about a young teenage girl named Callie who seems to have had the problem of cutting herself for a few years now. This is the way that she deals with her heartache and problems. Immidiately when her parents find out the place her in a home for girls struggling with similar probems, such as drug additction, eating dissorders, ect. The name of the place where Callie is staying is called Sea Pines however all of the girls living there refer to it as Sick Minds. Callie comes from a family that she finds very stressful. Her mother is constantly consumed with her younger borther Sam. Sam has alot of health problems mainly envolving asthma. Her father is really into his job and works non stop to try and keep up with medical bills. Most nights Callie was left alone with Sam while ehr parents were working and it wasnt unusual for him to become very sick and Callie become responsible for treating him. More than anything Callie wants to be close to her father but she often times just feel like he doesnt have enough for her.

Upon her arrival Calie doesn't get off to a good start. She is still cutting herself and refuses to speak to anyone not even her personal psychogolist. During her small group sessions while all the other girls sit around a discuss the issues they are having Callie remains silent even when spoken to. After hearing her psychologist confess that she was starting to give up on her Callie really starts to make a drastic turn around. She begins to slowey start talking to her and telling about a few of her main issues but she remains very nervous around others and refuses to speak in front of any of ther other girls. This is all comes to a change when one of her unprocliamed friends from small group gets extremely sick and placed into a hospital due to starving herself. Callie knew all along that she had not been eating and kept it to herself. After becoming to distraut Callie finally speaks out and confesses to the other girls how she feels. Little by little Callie and the other girls grow close until they all come to form a close bond. However these good changes really start to overwhelm Callie and at one point she decides to runaway. She only made it to a local Dunkin Doughnut and while sitting there waiting for her father to get there she learns her most valuable lesson yet from her waitress, Peggy. When her father gets there she is extremely excited to see him. It is the first time since she has been living in Sea Pines. After a few doughnuts and lots of talking she tells her dad that she has made the choice on her own to return to Sick Minds and that in her heart she knows that is where she should be. When she arrives back at the home she confesses in front of everyone that she wants to get better and that she now knows that it's okay to just be the child sometimes and let her parents just be the parents. Her and her family all decide that they are going to try really hard to become alot closer and be a much happier family.

Overall i really liked the book. I felt that it was very inspiring for any young child going through similar struggles in their life. My favorite part of the book would have to be when at the end of the book when Callie says the words " I want to get better". She had not actually confessed that throughout the whole story and that question often times came to mind. I think to some extent we all have problems that we really struggle with and i do think that sometimes we should just slow down and realize were just kids and it okay to just be the child everynow and then. I do think Callie was such a strong character throughout the book. I will admit at the beggining of the book i did think it was gonna be a little slow because it is only three chapters long and for the entire first chapter Callie does not even speak. However as soon as she began talking and telling her story it became very interesting and a read that you just couldn't put down. I would recomend this book to all young girls, or to anyone who is looking for a good read.