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Who Is The Antagonist In Silver Water

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In “Silver Water” by Bloom, is a sad beautiful fictitious tale about a young girl named Rose, her struggle with schizophrenia and how her family copes with the illness. The tale was open up with the stellar line, “My sister's voice was like mountain water in a silver pitcher, the clear blue beauty of it cools you and lifts you up beyond your heat, beyond your body.” At this scene, the narrator talks about the sister's violet recalls her sister Rose's singing, then explains what she told the therapist, “That's what I like to remember, and that's what I told the therapists.” Rose suffers a “psychotic break,” and spends ten years in and out of hospitals” and a halfway house. Throughout the narrator shows the family coping with the struggle of dealing with a family member with mental illness. The family becomes so disgusted with the therapists, the join in and openly mock one therapist during a session. They are a family that needs the sarcasm to brace themselves, to keep themselves sane. At one point, the violet's mother assures her, “It wont happen to you, honey. Some people go crazy and some people never do.” …show more content…

“Violet keeps coming back to is the memory of her sister's singing”. “Hymns so sweet and mighty you expected Jesus to come down off the cross and clap.” “Eventually, Rose has to return home due to insurance issues and the tension implodes” with a sad but foreshadowed ending that she doesn't want to spoil here. The human in the tale is appropriate because it provides an emotional outlet for the family, that it allows them to find humor and goodness in a situation that can seem so hopeless and

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