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Old Jun 22, 2007, 08:34 AM
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Irine Irine is offline
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i am writing a novel about a girl who is abused by her parents and trys to kill hesrself. the point i am not sure about is how she is getting out of it.

the first scatch was like that:
it`s a trip with her class and a teahcer catches her when she is trying to jump fom a mountain. then..what hapenes afterwards i don`t know how to make in realistic.
the time i worte it she is all crying and says to the teacher "why you did it it`s better diying" and so on. and the teacher talks to her and gives her love and ettetnsion and she really makes her feel better.

now i think that it`s not realistic:
1. the girll gives up on the suicie idea too fast..although i read in James Fray book some cases he wated to commit suicede that he didn`t do it and gave up pretty fast...

2. the teacher has to take her to a psychiatrist and not just talk to her. that`s what she does in the rewritten chapter..
but the girl feels indifferent to everything (in the rewritten chapter) . she says to herslef that it is cowardy but in a way she thinks to make the other "suicied" shich is runnign aways from her realy self and trying to be like he parents want her to be.
(which won`t work for her later).

i wonder if you guys thinks it make any sense

i also have in my story a boy who was sexualy abused...and i don`t know..he reacts a certain way.
from my experience which thanks to God wasn`t too serious, i know that a victim of abuse is passive, shocked and feel weakl/scared. i need some info/critisizm about it so that my story makes sense.

i wrote it all when i was 17. then eddited it and now i am still improving it...at the age of 22.