Cut

Over ten percent of teenagers in America are thought to have at least experimented with self-mutilation. Almost 5 millon Americans suffer from and eating disorder. In the book Cut by Patricia McCormick Callie and the other girls at Sea Pines suffer from mental illnesses like cutting and eating disorders.

Callie enter Sea Pines after a nurse at school discovers that she has been cutting herself. When she gets to Sea Pines or Sick Minds as the residents like to call it, Callie will talk to no one. She is refusing treatment by not talking to her doctor. When Callie begins to speak you finally hear the story of why she keeps on doing this to her self. She feels responsible for he brothers illness and thinks because her brother got sick under he care that she is pulling the family apart because her mom is now scared of everything and her dad has to work 24/7 to pay off medical bills.

I conected this book to the book Silent to the Bone by E.L. Koningburg. In Silent to Bone, the main character blames himself for what happened to his baby sister. Once his sister goes into acoma he stops talking just like what Callie does when her brother Sam gets sick. Both Callie and Branwell from Silent to the Bone share the same struggles because the both blame theirselves when really neither of them were at fault