Monday, 29 April 2013

Geraldine's Journal


Before Sophie goes to Fran’s:
I don’t know if I can deal with this for any longer. I can’t talk to her, I can’t even get into her room since she has is locked 90% of the time. She won’t listen to me when I try and help her, when her father and I suggest therapy or any treatment for her. Should I send her to Fran? That cow doesn’t think I know about her and Paul? She’s supposed to be my sister. It’s the least she could do seeing as what she’s done to me. I hope she will be able to knock some sense into Sophie. She just sits in her room eating junk and music, if you can call it that, bouncing off the walls. I don’t understand she has such a good life and she isn’t even grateful for it. Her father and I worked so hard for this life. Why can’t she be like Lauren? I don’t want to have to make this decision but it’s my last resort, we have no one else. I need to call Fran.

After Sophie goes to Fran’s:
I hope this has done Sophie some good. I never wanted to send her to Fran but we really had no other choice and I knew she wouldn’t have said no. I still am her sister. I am, however, concerned about Jimmy. I heard he was back and living up there. He’s always been wild and I’m worried he’ll encourage Sophie to take stupid risks. I’ve already told Robert to ask Fran about seeing him and keeping that to a minimum while Sophie’s there. I don’t want her coming back worse than what she is already now. I hope she loses lots of weight when she goes there too and does something about that hideous hairstyle of hers. Have I gone too far doing this? No, she was getting out of control. She thinks she is the only one going through tough situations. She doesn’t know anything.

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Chain of Hearts Questions

1.   Sophie describes her feelings towards her mother and her aunt. What does she tell the reader and how does she feel about each of them?
Sophie does not like her mother one bit. She feels as though her mother is always pushing her to be something she's not. She feels as though her mother wants her to be another perfect daughter like her older sister. She actually imagined her mum dead and said that she wanted her mother to die first.
Her feelings towards Fran are a little similar just not as strong. She is not at all enthusiastic to go to her aunt's house but she doesn't really care about Fran. She couldn't care what Fran thought of her either.

2. What two feelings is Fran trapped between?
Fran is trapped between her own selfishness of wanting to be by herself like she had always planned and hated that her sister just dropped the responsibility on her. But she is also feeling as though she should because she knows Sophie is troubled and that Sophie would stick to herself and that it would be good for Sophie.