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Journal #4
From Cheryl Strayed “Heroin” and James Baldwin “Sonny Blues” I enjoyed reading both of the pieces they really capture the moment including the individuals who suffer from using Heroin. If you didn’t know Heroin is a highly addictive analgesic drug derived from morphine, often used illicitly as a narcotic producing euphoria. As known as hard drug is very addictive also can kill you. I had a few questions regarding the two readings for Cheryl Strayed “Heroin” my question was why would her mother keep asking doctors and nurses for morphine over and over again, I understand it to relieve pain but she was on her deaf bed at the time? Why was the character Joe so nice to her to give her Heroin did she have to do anything to get the drug was sex involved? When will she learn that everything you put in your body may not be good for you? From the quote “The needles were gone forever” just saying the needles keep her mother up and alive, another quote “I get to do this I thought. I get to waste …show more content…
Eventually the story made a switch not a huge switch, but focusing on the daughter’s addiction to Heroin and how I guess she put the blame on herself because she could have saved her mother but the only thing that was saving her mother was the needles because it was relieving the pain from the cancer. Belief moments where she would be with her mother making memorable moments, even though her mother was in pain. I notice in one paragraph she explains how she love Heroin, she doesn’t think of nothing else around her but she feels happiness and love. I would write a second part of the story because I felt like it ended nicely but I feel the daughter is hiding that grief over her mother she need to find a rehab center to get her for her