Susan is a Canadian writer of young adult literature. Her novel “Nice Recover” defines the thin line between the right and wrong of alcohol. The readers notice early in the novel that the novel is written in narrative style, and the timeline is not static. Although it primarily stays in the present, it skips to the past occasionally. From her present life, high school to flash backs of junior school. Nice recovery follows the story of a teenage girl named Susan. A biography written by Susan to describe ever situation she had experienced throughout her teenage years. The plot opens by Susan introducing herself and her pass. Susan would get bullied in junior school by individuals in her school, and she thought she was responsible of making a …show more content…
Susan got influenced by the wild ones and became addicted to drugs, alcohol, partying and having relationships. Susan became close friends with a girl name Darcy which was also a part of the wild ones. Susan was known as one of the popular girls, getting noticed by boys and having relationships. Susan had a rough time throughout her teenage years. she got addicted to alcohol and couldn’t live without it, she went to every party and embarrassed herself while she was drunk, this became her every day routine. As time passed by she noticed she wasn’t getting anywhere with the way she was, so she moved to Toronto and got accepted to college for fashion designing. Susan was not ready to enter the real world, her gurney did not last long until she got kicked out due to her low marks. Susan felt bad about being kicked out so she joined one class at University of Toronto for English, she also started to join community centers that helped her recover from being an alcoholic. She got better and better every day, attending meeting, school and …show more content…
She has a very strong ability of describing objects or situations in detailed to give the reader a visual image. Susan’s purpose of writing is to persuade young teens to not follow the crowd. She does this by explaining every little situation such as how hard her life was and how hard it was to quit alcohol. She felt like alcohol was her only way of relieving stress, anxiety and depressions. This was not true, she noticed being sober was better and that she had lots of more fun during that period. Susan wants people who think alcohol helps relieve pain and stress to change the way they think. And for people who think alcohol makes them seem cool or they do it to fit in are wrong, it is just a way of self-harm. She achieves this message of how wrong alcohol and drugs are by sharing her own