Response Requirements
Analyze this article discussing three reasons leading to Lisa Park's sister's suicide. Your analysis should include your opinion on each of the reasons you mention.
Notes: You must use at least two direct quotes from the article. You should cite any quotes like this: "Direct quote from the book" (Author's last name, p. #). The response should be at least in 300 words
Notes: I was not able to upload anymore files so here it is first page of the letter. Also the editor was Wu Zhou
Chapter 21: A Letter To My Sister by Lisa Park
is been almost six years since your suicide. Now when I think about you (and I think about you often), I feel you are somehow with me. My dreams of us together are as vivid and life-composing as any conscious, waking moment. Some like to think that our waking lives are more real, because we believe we can determine them through the choices we make, and that our dreams are merely their epiphenomenal reflections or, worse, expressions of unfulfilled desires. Your presence is more than a memory or a wish. My dreams are ghostly impressions of our collective past, as well as a spontaneous living of experiences I know we never shared before you died, like the dream I had of you and me walking arm in arm. I remembered it as if it was a lost memory, even though I know it never "really happened. I am sometimes grateful for this, be cause your phantom presence helps me to continue remembering, which I know is important even though it almost rips me apart. No matter how hard I try to subdue, through forgetting, the pain that came with the destruction of our lives, I must bear witness to the crimes committed against you (and against us) that led to your suicide.
Conscious memories require constant attention, or else history will erase what hap-pened, and you will disappear as if you had never existed at all. Isn't this why you haunt me to this day, to inscribe what vou had learned from living under siege?
I remember the first time, when I found you after you had cut your wrists with a kitchen knife, and later when our father, using his deft surgical skills, sewed you back win his office. For a while after you had cut your wrists, you undertook to "better your life and attitude, even though it inevitably meant reinserting yourself into the old rise of conformity. One of the ways you tried to affirm your "new" resolve was to change your physical appearance through plastic surgery, for which our parents willingly put up the money in an effort to keep you happy. They were at their wits' end Lying to appease you, but their efforts to pacify you pushed you further into self-hatred. (The annihilation of uniqueness and self worth is indeed the pacifying aim.)
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