In this section, a lot has changed for Susanna. It seems like being stuck in a loony bin has finally driven her off the deep end. In the beginning of this section not much was changed. Georgina, Daisy, and Lisa were all themselves. It talked a little more about the nurses who from their descriptions seem almost as insane as the patients. Its hard to figure out who is sane and who isn't in this book, all the characters seem a little crazy. A new girl named Alice Calais was admitted into the same ward as the rest of the girls. At first they thought she was kind of boring, she didn't talk much but she would sit with the girls and listen to them. Then several weeks later she had a fit and started acting out. She was inconsolable, screaming and crying, she was out of control. The nurses sent her to maximum security,it's similar to being in a prison. You know what they say, it's always the quiet ones. After this experience Susanna changed. There was an incident where she tried to rip the skin of her hands off to make sure she had bones inside of her. The nurse was forced to sedate her.
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"In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: All of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of ourselves." (Kaysen 94)
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This quote explains just how horrible it was to live in the hospital. They didn't have many freedoms or rights. It was almost as if they were criminals in a prison. They were being tortured. Its ironic how this place was suppose to help them but I believe its driving them even father away from the little sanity they had. From here it can't get any worse, they've already lost everything including their minds.
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