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.