Silver Waters
By
Amy Bloom
Plot: The plot of Silver Waters is the breaking down of Violets sister Rose, ending in Rose’s suicide. The story begins with a memory of Violets of her older sister Rose when she was still “herself”. The story is broken down in Rose’s ups and down. Doctors that worked, and doctors that didn’t. The story is told from Violets point of view but the story is more about Rose, or I guess Violets feelings about Rose. The interesting thing is the story begins and ends with the same memory of her sister singing.
Emotion:
1) When her mother says she raised warrior queens. It’s funny because that’s something my mother always says about my sister and I. We call ourselves amazons. The strength that mother would have to have to go out into those woods to see her dead daughter. And to know what Violet had done for Rose would break anyone’s heart.
2) When violet sits with her sister all night in the cold and wet waiting for her to die. Violet lover her sister so much she basically stopped her life for her several times. She was such a strong woman to deal with the things she dealt with at such an early age. It sounded a lot to me like when you hear of nurses staying with patients until they die. Or comrades on the battlefield, I guess there battlefield was life.
3) In the end we don’t hear about Violet crying. But we feel her sadness when she re tells the story about her sister singing. I think in stead of giving this long winded crying sean Amy Bloom was able to capture the emotion of Violet in her memorys. It was heart breaking.
I cried when I read this story. It hit very close to home. “Closing time.” Those words ring in my ears. My cousin killed herself this last summer and I haven’t gotten over it. I don’t think I’ve even processed it all the way. When you kill yourself you are at your most selfish. Rose was lost, and in a hard you never want to think about way, maybe death was a good thing. But when I think of Rose giving up I think of my cousin.
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