What makes this stand out from the others is that as far as the reader knows, she has not done anything wrong. She also has no clue as to why people are being discriminatory towards her, hence why she has to ask her mom. What she has yet to learn is that
As the story progresses we come to understand the reason behind all of this. Unfortunately her home life is not the best as she lost her brother and her mother a victim of attempting
The author really grabs your attention by describing a very vivid scene. The way she describes the setting is exhilarating. She starts off by describing Lexi taking pictures of the family house. This house is a major part of the story, but the reader doesn’t know it yet. She then describes that it’s the middle of the night, but she doesn’t say anything about the time.
Also, now that she realizes what she could have done all along or what her parents could have done I do believe that this makes her sort of resent her parents in a way because of how she looked back on her life before.. (INSERT QUOTE HERE) But because she soon after starts to work on her novels specifically about her life and how she grew up it further shows her character as a person and how she finds this as a way to sort of cope or really just own up to herself and everyone else about who she really is inside. Not only this but that there are more to people than how they appear to be, we can never truly know someone or assume the way someone lived based on how they've found their
It is this determination that makes the book hard to put down, as I was anxious to discover just how, in fact, she ultimately managed to escape her hellish life with no money, eight children, and suspicious sister-wives watching her every move. I finished Escape a few days ago and felt a little confused about my feelings over this book. I even mentioned this in a phone conversation with another writer-friend. The story is compelling.
In Lynda Barry’s essay, The Sanctuary of School, she expresses her views on the economics of public education through her personal issues of being a neglected child. She describes her childhood involving neglectful parents and having only her brother to lean on. Barry’s personal testimony does deflect from her main point that budget cuts in public schools damage children of neglect even more. Her stance is not very effective since she does not elaborate on her main point with any statistics, facts, and data for support. Although, Barry has good diction and imagery, she deters from her main focus and did not support her central
After few hours reading, “The Sanctuary of School” was written by Lynda Barry, grew up in an interracial neighborhood in Seattle, Washington State. Then, I think this article was interesting to read. I love the way how she told us her past experience by using her own voice to lead us step by step get into her story, then she also shares us about her feeling and how it impacted to her future life. Plus, at the end, she argues that the government should not be cutting the school programs and art related activities. Those programs definitely do help the students and the parents as well.
It also provides the reader with Francie’s real-life experiences that children, not only from her era, can connect and relate to. This novel holds truth, violence and heartbreaking
In “The Sanctuary of School” Lynda applies her personal life to the fact that some people think cutting down budgets for public schools will benefit when times get tough. Also that art, music and the creative ideas will be the first to go when budgets are cut. Lynda had a rough childhood where her parents had money issues and family members that needed temporarily to stay at her home (Barry, 721). The lack of attention from her parents made her look for attention elsewhere in this case the school. Lynda saw her teacher Mrs. LeSane as a mother figure.
Even though she was close with her family, she felt like she related more with the victims of these stories more so than any of her other stories. The short stories reflected on relationships between parents and their children. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” and “How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over
The thing about the book is, it was not what I expected. This book was so much more than her life before the internet, it was her struggles and dealing with bullying and insecurities. A part of this
In her narrative essay “The Sanctuary of School,” Lynda Barry recounts a story from her childhood that illustrates her relationships at school vs her relationships at home. She tells us how public school was her sanctuary from her unstable home life. It was a stable environment that she depended on. She tells us this when she says ,"[F]or the next six hours I was going to enjoy a thoroughly secure, warm and stable world." Unlike at home, her school was a place she was noticed and cared about.
Lynda Barry in her work The Sanctuary of School, wrote about her life as a kid with a toxic family life where she relied on school to be a place she feels secure. She tried to escape from her toxic family by going to school; was the only way for her to relieve her mind. The school granted her freedom to draw and provided her a safe place to stay. Painting and drawing was the only activity that made her happy. By doing these activities were the only way to express herself.
The book is written from her point of you, but somehow I still didn’t get to understand her character that well. As the story progressed, I didn’t feel her character develop. Despite the lack of character development, I connected to her because of the decisions she made. I felt that I would probably make similar choices if I dealt with the stuff she had to go through. 2.
During the book there was a lot of parts that got me intrigued. It was interesting that she was there at the hospital, but at the same time she was a ghost. I had some emotional moments during this book. Like when she said “I picture myself nuzzling his head one last time, and I can’t even imagine it without seeing myself crying. ”(Forman Page 160).
