Death, Demons & Darkness
After reading the pages of Crapalachia, it gave me a sense of death and darkness. Uncle Grover suffered from depression and schizophrenia. That put a toll on the family, instead of being him to a hospital or a mental center they performed an exorcise. Which was very strangle to me, I understand that religion is very important. However, this man need serious medical help. Nevertheless, after understanding what's going on with Uncle Grover. I find out that there's a lot of death that follows including suicide.
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In my family this story connects to my grandfather. He suffered from alzheimer's but he recently died just about a year ago. But we all knew something was wrong with him, just never did any about it. Since my mom is a nurse she knew more into his disease but didn't think it was as bad. Until he ran away one day; and didn't know where he was. Until he was found in Virginia while we were living in Pennsylvania.
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We are a very religious family but we knew that we couldn't handle him in a household like ours. So we put him in a mental hospital, until he later then died. This just connected to my family because of the simple fact he was living with something that he need to be with special attention.
Woah thank you for sharing this story it must not have been easy. At least you guys found him safe recognized that he needed professional help. Unlike the characters in the story that called the faith healer which didn't help at all.
ReplyDeleteI also could not ignore the role death and despair play in the early parts of the novel. It seems as if death is considered as a part of life in the authors world. His community just doesn’t seem to make as big a deal of dying because it happens so frequently.
ReplyDeleteI think about how I view life and the value I attach to it and find myself not fully understanding the apathy shown by the McClanahan and Goddard families. I think that, put in the same situations, I would make very different choices even if faced with difficult circumstances.
Do you feel that your family situation has given you some deeper understanding of the events in the story?