Two Sisters In Silver Water

The Evolution of Two Sisters in ‘Silver Water’

Are you the oldest? Do you have a younger sibling? Or are you the youngest? With the dynamics of the story ‘Silver Water’ involving two siblings it sets a tone for the story. These seem to be the categories you seem to fall under when reading this story. They seem to set a biased for the reader for example I am not only and older sister but I’m also a little sister. This makes me as a reader see the story and connect to it differently than if I were the youngest. Amy Bloom reveals her characters, two sisters using action, speech, and behavior to bring deeper meaning to her readers. Amy Bloom also uses her characters names to reveal deep meaning and small parts of who they are in relation

Rose the weird one out in the world with no care, yes she diagnosed with schizophrenia but it helped shape her and show how she evolved during the story “My father sat down with Rose for a few hours, and she sat there licking the hairs on her forearm, first one way, then the other…swaying down the halls in nylon maternity…in one of her dancing teddybear smocks and extra-extra-large Celtics sweatpants…Rose burped, and then we all laughed.” Violet being the shy and quite one from the first moment she spoke even with knowing the answer she made herself seem unsure “I don’t know. Maybe she’s trying to get you to stop talking about her in the third person.” But with the evolving it’s like Bloom has reverted Rose back to a child throwing tantrums when being asked to change clothes “Never. I will never . . .”’ she knelt down and began banging her head on the kitchen floor” even if she knew it was wrong “Oh, Vi, Mommy, I’m sorry. I’m sorry, don’t hate me.”’ She staggered to her feet and ran wailing to her room.” Violet began to see the small changes “Rose stopped taking her meds,…she pitched another patient down the stair” she even lied for her mother the second one out of the three lies she has told in her

Her eyelids fluttered. ‘Closing time,’ she whispered.” When we have come to realize that now violet has had to truly step up “uncovering the bottle of white pills by her hand…watched the stars fade.” She has become the oldest the only child “I could picture my mother slapping me, shooting me for letting her favorite die. ‘Warrior queens,’ she said, wrapping her thin strong arms around me ‘I raised warrior queens.’” It makes us realize even with the drastic change from static character to dynamic one and vice versa Violet only ever saw her sister “I closed my eyes and saw my sister, fourteen years old, lion’s mane thrown back and eyes tightly closed against the glare of the parking lot