Family Flashback

"It shocked me and burned up my whole arm and that's why they had to amputate it" (88).

"She says they'll cut the skin off my scalp in a big rectangular chunk, about as big as an envelope, and put it on a meshing machine" (70).

"They are going to put the special skin on me, the skin that they took off me a couple of weeks ago... now there are fifty postage-stamp-size pieces of skin and they're going to spread them on my right leg and my right should and anywhere else that needs it" (76).

All these things Brent mentions in his memoir, makes you realize all the pain that his actions brought. Not only pain, because he doesn't really sound as he was suffering, he just seems as he was mentioning it. In this type of situations I don't know why I feel as is the family was suffering much more. Just the fact of knowing that your kind tried to committee suicide most be horrible. All of the things one might think: Was it because of something that I did? Is he being bullied at school? Well that's about as much questions I was able to come up with, but it really must be horrible. 

"Why the title?" You might ask yourself well I'm going to tell you why, but here is a little summary: http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/19686/un-venezolano-gravemente-herido-en-el-accidente-aereo-del-martes-en-mexico/

If you read the link I posted above you will understand. That is my cousin. That tragic accident burned 70% of his body. I know he suffered, and I know he still is suffering. But I also know how much suffering comes to the family. My aunt was a wreck, and that I can say for sure. Why wouldn't she be? A plane falled on her son, and more than a fifty percent of his body is burned. I know it is a totally different kind of accident, but it ends up in the same thing. A boy (actually a grown up) and his family in a hospital room. My cousin's accident was much worse, but at the end of the day it was not how much he got burned, but the fact that he did and so did Brent. All those procedures he is telling us he went through, just sound familiar. I wasn't in the hospital with my cousin, and we are not that close either, but I do know it affected my family, and it sure did affect Brent's.