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Book Report: Girl, Interrupted Sane or normal people have wondered at one time or another what it is like in a hospital that houses the insane. Susanna Kaysen opens the door to the reality and true insanity of being a patient in a mental hospital renowned for tis famous ex-patients, including Ray Charles Sylvia Plath, and James Taylor in her book, Girl, Interrupted. ... Girl, Interrupted, written by Susanna Kaysen, is a documentation of her tay in a psychiatric hospital including events building up to her taxi ride to the hospital and her recovery period outside the hospital. ... Polly was a girl who had set herself on fire using gasoline at an age when she wasnt even old enough to drive. ... On another occassion, a girl named Alice Calais was admitted to the hospital. ... She viewed a Vermeer titled Girl Interrupted at Her Music which she remembered seeing twenty years ago with her high school English teacher. She had made a connection with the painting all those years ago and now she realized that the girl had been interrupted from her music just how she had been interrupted from her life. While reading Susanna Kaysens Girl, Interrupted, I opened my eyes to the reality of insanity in this world and how we perceive insane people is the same way they perceive us.
Approximate Word count = 1205
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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