Strangest part of AFTER

The strangest part of after to me is how she can't remember what happened to her. Its irritating me because she can't keep up with what people tell her. Now she in juvenile and think everything will be ok and she will go home to her old life. I think she doesnt want to realize what she's done and what happening to her. I also question why hasn't anyone realized how far gone she is. I though the lawyer lady would have figured out by now that she's not with it. I hope eventually somebody sees that she's not with it. This will help her with her case. Now that I read more I sort of know that something is wrong with her mentally. I say this because if something that bad happened to anyone that would be something they won't forget. I no this because everyone that had a baby would tell you how bad the pain was and the whole experience. She is really in denial I think she denied being pregnant because she feel that she is too much of a good girl and bad things can't happen to her

feelings on devon; AFTER

The part I’m on in the book is when Devon is in the juvenile detention center. From this part it kind of hard for me to sort out what type of person she is. From my reading is seems that she tries to forget the truth about everything. I feel this way because she acts like she doesn’t know why she went to court or why she’s in jail. I want to believe that her experience was so traumatic her brain will only allow her to remember a piece at a time. On the other hand I think she know she had a baby and her plan was to play like she didn’t know what was happening to her. It sort of hard to know whether she knew if she was pregnant or not. Many people who get pregnant know that they are pregnant whether they want to or not. But I think is possible for a young girl Devon’s age to not know she’s pregnant. I say this because I have a close friend who had a baby at the age14. She told me she didn’t know she was pregnant until she went into labor and had the baby. I asked her how didn’t you expect to be pregnant and you knew you were having sex. She told me she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend one time and was so scared to do or say anything, it came to a point she forced herself to forget about it and act like it never happened. She didn’t know she was pregnant because she never had a period before and she was really huge at the time she couldn’t tell. I think something like this could play a huge role in why Devon’s so confused. Maybe she had something with one of her mother many boyfriends or she just would let herself believe what was happening g to her.

feelings on AFTER

I am currently in the third chapter of after. I related to these chapters a little because I sort of understand the pain the girl was going through after she had given birth. In the novel she was saying how she couldn’t hold conversations or really focus on what was going on. I related to this because after I had my son for the first twenty four hours I had no idea what was going on around me. I remember the doctor talking to me and telling me about the medication I was on. Every time he would ask me if I understand I would wake up and look at him smile and go back to sleep. In the novel the girl was so exhausted she couldn’t move or do anything for herself. That’s the same way I was after giving birth. I felt like I had no control over myself. Now that I’m getting deeper in to the book I realize that the girl didn’t have the best life at home. I don’t really understand how her mother didn’t notice she was pregnant. I personally think that her mother was more interested in men than she was in her daughter. That’s the main reason I think she didn’t notice. Because a real mother would notice a change in her daughter in the first couple months. This book is really getting interesting to me and I have a lot of questions going through my head about the book hopefully I finish it quick.