Reading Reflection 2- The Burn Journals

Questions:

1. What was the point of leaving the previous hospital that Brent was in to go to another? He liked the older one better anyways.

I feel like a new scenory and a new location is good for Brent considering he's been in the same place, the same room, with the exact same people for four months. In his mind, he could think that at least it's one step closer to become fully recovered, one step closer to home.


Comments:

1. The song that he pops into his tape player while he gets into the car, on his way to the new institution I feel extremely relates to where he is in his life right now. It was a song from The Beatles.

2. After leaving the children's hospital where he was for four months, where he had his own room, with at least some sort of privacy, is a big step up from where he's forced to go now unfortunately. Now he is on his way to a brand new institution where he is forced to share a room with some stranger who also is in recovery from a burn. I don't find that fair one bit for poor Brent.

3. Just when I think things are getting as worse as they could for Brent, he then soonly figures out that the new roomate he has, has a awful attitude. Yelling and arguing with the nurses and caretakers could be one thing, but hopefully having issues with Brent is not going to be a concern.

4. Brent has a dream in his new place where he's on his way to some waterfall to get rid of the bodies he's traveling with from the people he had killed. He regrets it dreadfully. As well as when he wakes up and realises it's a dream, he still feels aawful from himself even having some sort of idea like that. My idea was that I wonder if this dream could symbolize any sort of way to how he's feeling, or if he somewhat has an idea in his mind that the author has not shared with us yet.

Text-to-Self
       
         The way he describes and remembers his awful dream relates to me in a way that I dream  constantly, and all of me dreams are to descriptive, it's like I could have read them out of a book.


Predictions:

I feel in the future of reading this book I will soon find out that the dreams he has constantly been having lately will symbolize and foreshadow something that will soon happen. As well as he will soon be able to go home, though it still might take some time. He won't jump back into school right away, but when he does he will be extremely nervous and worried. Going back to the place that led me to almost kill myself, would frighten me as well. He will be afraid that no one will like him anymore because of what he had attempted to do.