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- Mrs. Rigsby
- I grew up in a suburb of Chicago and attended the University of Missouri at Columbia for my undergrad. I have a Masters in Elementary Education from Regis. I come from a family with four kids. My sister is a teacher in Chicago. One of my brothers lives here and the other one lives in Chicago. I moved here because my husband loved Colorado and I loved him. As it turns out,I love Colorado as well.
Mick Harte Was Here really is therapy for Phoebe. I distinctly remember her saying that the grief therapist told her to say Mick's name. She does! As proof, she says his name.... On the cover, it obviously says: Mick Harte Was Here. Also, this book is kind of helping her to get over the shock and all of the other emotion she was and is feeling. She talks to her best friend Zoe about the accident.... (I actually think Zoe was in love with Mick, only because of how emotional she was when he died. She was also very emotional when he didn't wave to her when he passed Phoebe and herself.) "I'm not going to go nuts if you talk about him, you know. What's wrong with you, anyway? Didn't you go to grief counseling? Zoe said you were there. But you must not have been listening. 'Cause we're all supposed to be saying Mick's name, remember?" Page 66.
ReplyDeleteI think that this was therapy for Phoebe because like the grief counselor said all of the people who like Mick need to say his name and talk about him (which was virtually endless tales of mischief) and Phoebe wrote an entire book about him and what his family did to deal with there loss. Another thing she did are for one she said that it wasn’t her loss because Mick was everywhere in her head. The third last reason it was like therapy to her is it helped her realize Mick is gone and he won’t be coming back no matter what she does , but as I said he will always be everywhere…in her head.
ReplyDeleteRonin.
I think it could have been therapy for her so she could really like notice that he was gone. Like what I was trying to say is that Phoebe kept trying to think that Mick was still here just this book kind of made her realize he was gone. Like in page 39 [Phobe was laughing in her room and she knew somewhere else Mick was laughing too.] That's what I think kept her to Mick his stuff. She has people comfort her like Zoe and other random children. I think the assembley helped her get through the loss also because she was telling other kids to not make her brother's mistake. The thing that helped her the most was probably that she carved the words in the cemnt "Mick Harte Was Here."
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This book is therapy for phoebe because she uses it to explain the way she feels.She uses it to talk to the reader, almost like she wants them to feel the pain she feels. She wants to talk to someone with her same feelings because she can't talk to Zoe when Zoe doesn't understand her thoughts.She starts the book by saying that Mick is gone, as if she's trying to admit it to herself instead of thinking that he would come back. She is saying "Mick is gone, and there's nothing I can do about it." Pheobe also used it as therapy because she relived the stories throughout the book. It is almost as if she wants to pretend that he is still there, then catches herself just in time.By the end of the book, I really did feel closer to Mick. "And I just wanted to tell you about him, that's all. I just thought you ought to know."
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I think that this book is like explaining yourself to make you feel better except you are explaining to many more people to make you feel better so you probably feel better from explaining yourself to more people. The book probably made Pheobe feel better when she explained because not only like I said before but being able to explain the whole story not just small fragments. She can tell about good and bad experiences shes had with Mick and how she got through it. She seems to have mood swings in the book and telling someone about them may have helped her not feel guilty as much. I wonder if this happens to regular people every time they experience a loss. I wonder if writing about a loss for others helps them through their experiences.
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