Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The Years of My Birth Reflection

This weeks story Years of My Birth was very good reading it the whole entire week.
The character in this story that interested me the most was the twin who was raised by another family instead of her own because her family thought that she was born with a defect her name is Linda.
They thought she was going to die because she was born with congenital deformity and the doctor said she might die. Her parents did not want her. A janitor lady named Betty Wishkob was going into Linda's room at night at the hospital nursing Linda and afterwards asked if she could have and keep Linda and raise her as her own child. Linda went to a catholic school and was taken care of very well. Her adoptive parents would always mold her head right. And Linda loved them so much just like they loved her. I did not like Linda's birth mother. Her name is Nancy Lasher. Why is that, is because she did not have to give up Linda just like that all because she was born with a defect. I think she was not being a mother at that point. It was pretty rude that  Linda's birth mother had came up out of the blue to see Linda, at the same exact point that Linda's twin brother needs a kidney transplant. That made me think that she just wanted something from Linda. Linda had met up at dinner with her birth mother because her mother was desperate to see her. So at dinner Linda's birth mother was telling Linda how she wished that she knew Linda was going to be normal she would've never gave her up and that she would've kept her. That was ignorant to say to your own flush and blood that's my opinion. Linda did not like those words that was coming out of her mother's mouth either. When Linda seen her mother she did not suspect that that was her mother "I found that funny too" I thought the ending was kind of ignorant and good at the same time too. Because Linda united with her twin brother she never knew her whole entire life name Linden. He was in the hospital because he need's new kidneys in his body. I think it was kind of ignorant because of the things that Linden was saying, he act like he did not have no type of respect and morals for anyone at all. Linda felt bad when she learned from her mother that her twin brother needed a new kidney in his body soon and that he was not doing too well and that he was in the hospital. Because when she heard it from her mother she felt herself floating up out of her chair. And she can feel his anxious breathing right there near her. Linda ran outside from the dinner table and was upset outside crying about her twin brother's situation she learned about from Nancy. Linda found out that she was a perfect match for her twin brother to get one of her kidneys. Linda also learned that her twin having those issues with his kidneys was his fault too. He tried committing suicide on himself with a massive dose of acetaminophen, aspirin and alcohol . Linda sat with Linden in the hospital they had a nice long conversation and Linden told her she did not have to do that for him. The conversation was kind of weird but at least they gotten the chance to talk and feel each other out since they couldn't do that in their entire life. But Linden was very rude towards his own twin sister which why I did not like the ending of the story. But at the end it seemed her came around and changed his whole attitude towards Linda. I think she stayed and continue to spend time with her twin brother. I also would have agreed to meet with Nancy because I would've want to save my sick twin too if I was in the same situation. Overall it was a great story but sad at the same time.

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