Sunday, December 19, 2010

HW#23 - Illness & Dying Book, Part 2

My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid

Published in 1997 by Farrar,Straus, and Giroux

I found out my brother died. I didn't know how to react to his death honestly. my husband told me my brother died, i went along with things as if it didn't happen. When my brother was alive he did unthinkable things. He was trouble and did drugs. We were two different people. He liked to read about stories in past history, all the different events and stories but his life was not a story but real life disease AIDS.

1.) When i saw him, though, lying in bed,two months before i saw him at the undertaker's, he was in his mother's house. She is my mother, too, but i wasn't taking to her then, and when i am not talking to her, she is someone else's mother, not mine. (pg.89)

It seems like Jamaica always had this amonisty towards her mother because her mother hated the fact she remebered things that she wanted people forget. When her mother and her aren't talking she specifically doesn't claim her just as her other siblings do to.

2.)I missed the place i now live in, i missed snow, i missed my own house that was suttounded by snow, i missed my children, who were asleep or just just waking around the about in the house surrounded by snow, i missed my husband, the father of my children and they were all surrounded by snow. (pg.97)

No matter by the fact how sick her brother was she always put her family first before her mom and brother. I feel like her brother having AIDS or any other disease would not make Jamaica's feelings change towards him because she left that old life and started a new one with her kids and husband.

3.) I did not love my brother, i did not like my brother, i was only sorry that he had died, i was comforted to hear other people say that they were sorry he had died. (pg.106)

Throughout the brother's past from what Jamaica is saying he did alot of messed up things and never listened to anybody which is why he got AIDS. Maybe she feels she doesn't love him because he didn't appreciate her for the things she did for him. Even after feeling better he continued to do have sex with women and other things in which he shouldn't.

I think the brother in this book is just very selfish in my opinion by the fact that he has this disease that killing and does inapproriate things with it. I feel like most of the people in the book are very numb to the situation of people getting sick and would just rather not deal with it especially in that country. Previously as in the first 1/3 of the book the actions of the people are just forgetting the dying people and moving on with your life and like i said i think that its weird that people do that. All my life you are told to be very sympathetic and caring and always visit them but in the book some people are not like that at all. All his friends and people where he lived gave him the cold shoulder.

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