Comparing After The Wreck, Spread My Wings And Flew Away

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Death in someone’s life can often change them juristically. Joyce C. Oats has two great novels explaining how death can play a huge role in someone’s life and they can go about it in in several different ways. In Oat’s After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings and Flew Away, Jenna Abbot tries to shut out everyone in her life and in Wonderland, Jesse Hurts tries to replace everyone who was murdered in his family. They both go about two different ways, and both learned important lessons.
In Oat’s After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings and Flew Away, Jenna gets into a horrible car accident with her mother. Unfortunately her mother dies. Jenna is baffled and hurt and dos not know how to go about her life anymore. Jenna