The torn Skirt (39-78)

Summary
Now in the story, Sara is now living on her own. her father Seamus left her because he caught her doing inappropriate things and he felt that everyday he looked at her or seen how she acted, it reminded him too much of Everly, his wife. So now that Seamus has gone away, he left her with someone named Sylvia, but Sara doesn't want to stay with her so again she runs away for a while and meets up with China. Now that her and China are together and becoming friends, Sara starts doing cocaine with China. China on the other hand wants to get clean and get out of the business and the only way she can do that is if Sara helps her get out. China uses to be good friends with Justine and tried to get Justine to help her out, but Justine refused and she was just as worse as China in the smoking and doing cocaine and being a hooker. Now that Sara is in the game as a well, China is teaching her what to do and how to act around these men. In some parts of the story, Sara is starting to think about running away from China and going home to live with Sylvia but then decides that she couldn't leave China by herself and just because she was the first person to be friends with her, she was ready to do anything for her.


Quotation
"Imagine what he'd think of me now. I'm sure he'd be disgusted, but Everly, she'd be proud" (Godfrey 51).

Reaction
When I read this quote i thought that maybe Sara is trying to follow her mothers footsteps. One of the guys she was messing around with knew her science teacher, Mr. Klein. Mr. Klein didn't even like the fact that she was dating Dean Black, one of the burn out boys. So she knew that he definitely wouldn't like her seeing this guy. But she didn't even care about all that or what she was doing to hurt herself. All she knew was that her mother would be proud of what she was doing. Sara is starting to think on her head, but then she stops and thinks about her friend and how she cant leave her in this type of place by herself.