I am currently reading the book The Virgin Suicides By Jeffrey Eugenides. So far it has been a heart touching story with many imperfections and heartbreaking tales. The tale starts with 4/5 Lisbon girls committing suicide one year after the next, year after year.
The book has been taken place in the 1970's and suicide rates were very much lower than the ones today and it was thing that was very newly exposed.Out of all people, the neighborhood boys have figured out what is going to happen to the only Lisbon girl that remained. She would join her sisters but it was too late. In one of the sister's first suicide attempt; Cecelia's, whose tried to cut herself in the bathroom and almost cutting her hand off, she was holding a picture of Virgin Mary. Who in the catholic religion was given a baby by god's will. I think the picture she was holding represented how somethings are meant to happen to her even if they didn't have a reasoning. Not to mention, the fences that the Lisbon family owned had a certain amount of protection to it. I mean after the deaths it was like Mr. and Mrs. presented to be happy. They put up Christmas lights around the house. But why put up Christmas lights when your child just committed suicide. Not to mention trying to forgot things and making things up. It was like secrets kept the family apart. It seemed like the sisters kept many things to themselves. It was like the suicides were planned and made to happen.
No one in the world should commit suicide. Every 40 seconds someone in the world commits suicide. There are other ways that problems could be solved it isn't just ending your lives, end your problems first.
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