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Sick Boy Quotes Analysis

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This is a quote describing the mentality of addicts who use heroin as a coping mechanism. After the death of the baby, “something inside Sick Boy was lost and never returned”. This is a hyperbole and not meant to be taken literally. Nothing was legitimately lost within Sick Boy. It was rather something spiritual. Sick Boy does not know how to describe what was lost either and as a result, he choices to “fuck everything” which is an example of impulsivity, a side effect of drug use. He continues with a metaphor by comparing misery to heroin which he “heaps up on a spoon” and “dissolves it with a drop of bile”. The word “dissolve” demonstrates the amount of power that the drug has over the character. Once the drug dissolves, so does the misery.

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