Summary (140-225)

Susanna's now 21 years old graduating college in just a couple months and trying to get her life on with with her own place, a new relationship, a better bond with her mother(which seems to be working), with her other getting off of all the drugs that she has been taking, her back pains are finally going away, she has her self into a stable relationship with a wealthy man and everything seems to be going perfectly. However things never stay that way in Susanna's life. Her boyfriend Noah get's addicted to gambling and is surging all of their money. Its either he come home with no money or 3 thousand, which is very unlikely. To get her mind off things she gets a job at a political office, where her father also works. When there comes a new job there comes new men and she ends up having an affair with he boss and a few months later ended up getting fired.

Susanna was the type of girl that ran man to man having sex with any and everybody just to be satisfied at the end of the day. The mail man, deli worker, 2 French boys in a taxi, you name it she did it. After a while things did get a little played out and she though of settling down and then she met Gordon, as you know when things are too good in the relationship they must be someone cheating and it was the worst day of her life, getting dumped by the one person she loved most. After being along for awhile she then met Christopher, someone who didn't want her for just sex but for who she was and someone who didn't want to be cheated on.

QUESTIONS:
How was this relationship going to turn out?
Would her mother be okay with him dating and soon be marrying her daughter?

"On medical forms after that I always wrote one in the spontaneous abortion." (Sonnenberg 215)
REACTION:
It kinda bothered me in reading this section because, as being a Christin, i didn't believe in things like abortion and for her to go and follow in her mother foot steps(3 abortions) and do it was alerting. Why would she do that? what was going through her mind as she laid there getting it done? Does?would she ever regret her decisions?

Summary#3 Pages:88-140

Like her mother, Susanna, too, becomes promiscuous, flitting from boyfriend to boyfriend. Growing up in a sexuality environment, she is get's more mature ahead of time, quickly adapting to her mother's lifestyle. There was one time when her mother, Daphne, encourages her daughter to sample some cocaine. First, she holds out a small amount and then offers tips, and Susanna slowly begins to inhale. Even though her mother may act this way and make it seen as if she lets her children do anything, one thing she loves is her attention and hates when people get in her way. Once when Susanna tried to have her own opinion, things turn ugly. Yelling abusively, Daphne slaps her daughter across the face, punches her repeatedly in the stomach. This then becomes a routine in Susanna's life that she tries to accept and get use to.

At the age of 14, Susanna escapes from her mother's side by attending boarding school in Connecticut before transferring to another school in Colorado. There, she begins an affair with her English teacher. It is a pattern of seduction that will persist for many years.

Quote "Listen, darling. You can't just go jumping into bed with anyone who asks you. I know Lincoln's speacial, and I always knew he'd be your first, but you have to behave like a lady. Otherwise you'll get a reputation". I stared at her. She went to her room, forgetting the fire, and I picked up my diary and struck the same notes of indignation any teenager would." (Sonnenberg 117)

REACTION: In my opinion this shows that Daphne knows how things are suppose to go when it comes to getting involved with men. I see that she's trying teach her daughter that sleeping with any and every man isn't good, but she feel as if she shouldn't lead her in  the direction on men, but more on her education at boarding school. 

Why does it seen as if Susanna is heading into her mothers foot steps?

What made her finally realized that the way she grew up was wrong?

Is there a reason why Daphne treats her children the way she does, did something go wrong in her child hod that left her to move into thess steps?

Summary page 40-88

Now that Susanna is 12 years old things around her seem to be changing. She is more active with her friends and seems to be very interested in boys now. She plays game like run, catch, and kiss ; She also gets advice from her friends Elise and Marcy. On the other hand her mother seems to be going through misery having to deal with serve back pain and not being able to do anything for herself or her 2 children, but her mother Patsy managed to step in and help.

*So far in the story it still seems to be going on with the list on stages in her life as each year goes by and the different things her mother goes through, he boyfriends, and different places that they move to.

Quote: "My stomach flopped as if a boy was about to kiss me."-Similie
   This shows that she's finally maturing and becoming a young lady.

Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg (pages 1-40)

SUMMARY

It all starts off with a phone call from aunt Irene stating that Susanna's mother has been in a car accident and is now in a coma. The narrator shows her tone as not feeling and kind of emotion for her mother. She had been lied before about having cancer and now Susanna feels that she shouldn't go to be by her mothers side because it can be another trick. Days going by and she doesn't know what to do, one side of her feels that she has to go because that’s her mother but the other side is telling her no. The narrator also tells the 2^nd chapter in lists, as we learned in class, about each year in Susanna's life as a young girl growing up.

Susanna has grown up to be a wife and a mother of two son's. Her mother and father split by the time she was just 3 1/2 years old. She moved from place to place with her mother and younger sister, Penelope. Her mother was the type of women that had lots of men and she also did drugs, cocaine.

Quote:

“With my mother I had nothing left to lose, the last of a daughter scattered as ashy silt, the orphan collapse.”

Reaction:

This shows that her mother meant nothing to her and she meant nothing to her mother. Their love for one another is like ashes scattered every where. There was nothing there between them.