P.S. I Love You (post #2)

(pages 70-140)
SUMMARY:
Her brother, Richard, was the opposite of Holly. He was the oldest and he never had opened up to the family. All he says is facts, facts, and more facts. He is very insensitive and hurtful without him knowing. He doesn't understand what Holly is going through. He thinks that she should have got herself together by now. He doesn't understand how stressful it is to go through what Holly is going through. The pain of loosing someone you love; he never had felt before. He visited Holly to greet her a late birthday, which he never had done before. Declan, the youngest son, made a documentary film about Holly's birthday girls night out. However, he sneaked some shots of her emotional moments too. He won the award for this film and it's going to be on TV for the whole world to see. While hiding in a closet, when the documented film was being shown in the club that she sang karaoke to, she started to cry. Without Gerry, she has been hiding and avoiding things that are not necessary to hide or avoid from. At least, she has a new friend named Daniel. He cheered her up and got her out of the closet.

QUOTE:
"She needed to stop worrying, stop thinking, stop making her brain go on overdrive, and she certainly needed to stop talking to herself (Ahern 109)."

REACTION:
All the quotes makes it seem like the reader is their in the scene. Words becomes pictures and pictures comes into a movie played in your head. Not only had the author puts a lot of the Holly's thoughts into the novel, the author doesn't leave out anything that is important that can carry the story out smoothly. The thoughts of the minor characters are spoken and thoughts of the main character are also spoken. Which helps the reader understand what is going on more. The quote connects to the story because Holly is thinking too much about pointless things. She drives herself insane with over-analyzing things in her head. She talks to herself, especially when she imagines Gerry with her in certain moments. One more significant thing is that the author makes it seem like Gerry is still alive and he actually talks to Holly once in awhile. It shows that Holly was so in love with this man that it doesn't even seem like he had passed away months ago.