2 or 3 things...

In Friday’s class we were asked to write about a 2 or 3 things… so for my last blog I choose to do the same. I choose Two or Three things I know for sure and one of them is that telling the story all the way through is an act of love.  I think Dorothy wrote this particular piece because for Dorothy, she finally felt that sense of relieve. She was able to tear away the broken piece that had affected her for all those years. Dorothy refers to her life story as if it was wall, “my story was on this wall. I stood in front of my wall. I put my hand on it. Words were peeling across the wall, and every word was a brick. I touched one. “Bastard,” (page 92). As she began tearing away the wall, a piece of her past was going away, she was able to release built up regression for everyone who treated her the wrong way. Once the bricks went away the first time she “saw” her mother, felt her mother, then another brick broke away she remembered another piece of her life, another and another would fall and Dorothy’s story would become just that a story.  Throughout her life Dorothy heard it all, seen it all, and most importantly experienced it all. After reading Dorothy’s story I get that feeling of release, it is almost as she finally felt whole again, she could move forward. Though she might have felt relieved in a way, she will always have those awful memories that will stay with her forever.  In the end Dorothy writes, “I can tell you anything. All you have to believe is the truth.” I think Dorothy wanted her readers to know was that if you are honest with yourself, then everyone else around you will believe in you too.