Novel

Street Kid

By: Judy Westwater

"... and the pain cut through me like a knife. That night, as I lay on my bedroom floor trying to sleep, it felt like my heart had been ripped from my chest. I cried that evening, scalding tear, for her, for me - for all the pain that I had learnt to lock away."(Pg.140-pg2).

....This quote from the book 'Street Kid' best represents to quote by Penelope Sweet. When she says depression is nourished by ungrieved and unforgiven hurts this relates well when the little girl says 'for all the pain that I had learnt to lock away'. For me this sentence is describing the unforgiven hurts the little girl has locked away in her head.

 This story relates really well to the flash fiction I wrote mainly because they are both little girls who are being abused. They are both holding secrets in, my character Maria is not letting the nurse that her dad is beating her as well as not feeding her properly. The little girl Judy in this book is being severely abused by her father as well as her stepmother and also doesn't tell anyone. They keep the 'ungrieved and unforgiven' hurts locked inside.

  In the poem 'Run Away' the fourth paragraph says" hide from your pain. pretend everything is okay, paint a smile on your face and forget."(p4). This relates to the the novel 'Steet Kid' as well as my flash fiction. This is exactly what both little girls are doing, they are painting a smile on their face and trying to forget all the bad things that are happening to them, by doing this they are nourishing their depression....