Throughout the second part of our reading more and more pieces of rachels history are brought into context. We start finding out more about "brick" and his purpose in this story, his relation to rachel. I believe that the girl who is described as being "a deep purple, the girls left side resembled a birthmark. A tube jutted from her mouth. Wires and machines hung above and surrounded her bed."That she was rachel, and this is the accident that her grandmother had brought up briefly previously in the story, almost trying to apologize for it but she couldn't find the words to say it or the words to comfort her.
I believe the man in the military uniform was rachels dad, who became close with brick as he visited there everyday and learned how to play the harmonica and who rachels dad broke down infront of. That was indeed rachel, the lone survivor. There is evidence to that because in one point of the story it says how one side of her body was the color of red wine, from all the bruising. The question that does remain now is, why did her mother do it, and where is her father now.
Cali Simmons (Post 7)
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