For my April book I read The Leaving by Tara Altebrando. The leaving is a story of five children who return after being kidnapped for eleven years. They are dropped off at a park with maps to their house and no memory of where they have been for the past eleven years. They all manage to find their way home and are meet with different responses. The story follows Lucas and Scarlett who both have a hard time adjusting back to life. There is also the problem of the sixth child that went missing and still has not returned. As the book goes on we learn more and we get deeper into the mystery that happened eleven years ago. The leaving reflects the main point of chapter 23 in How to Read Literature Like a Professor. In this chapter Foster talks about how all diseases are not just literal. In this story Scarlet is made out to be somewhat crazy and she often finds herself lost in thought. This is similar to what Foster is talking about because she is not crazy but after eleven years being erased she is confused and lost as to what and who she is. Throughout the story, Scarlet tries to piece together what happened to her the past eleven …show more content…
During this exam they find a small round oval, that she appears to have swallowed. “I knew they’d find something. (Altebrando,77)” Scarlet’s mother takes this as a sure sign that it was aliens but scarlet still knows better. She waits and waits for this oval to come back out, hoping that it’ll given her a sign as to what really happened to her. While this coin does not cause her any pain or sickness it makes her anxious enough to claw at her skin and try to get it out herself. “More commonly, though, heart trouble takes the form of heart disease.(Foster,143)” This is the same with Scarlet and her mental problems that take the from of mental diseases causing the line to blur within the