Not Easily Broken (150-245)

Sumamary
Clarice is starting to notice that her marriage is on the verge of falling apart so she decieds to go talk to her priest, the person who married them, G. A. Wilkes. He then told her to contact the family practitioner Dr. Carmen McAtee. Now Clarice is trying to get her life and her marriage back on track after messing it all up. When they were at Dr. McAtee, they had to answer questions and in the boxes, they had to check off boxes about what kinds of problems they had. Some of their problems that they checked were my marriage, depression, communication with significant others, and sexual issues. But the real thing that they needed to deal with was learning how to accept one another and letting a husband be a husband and a wife be a wife, and also learning when you are in need of help that you shouldn't be afraid to ask. At the end of the book, Dave's baseball team won their game and Clarice finally understood why the team was so important to him and why it meant so much to him, also for the first time, Clarice called him Dave and not David. They ended up getting through their problems and moving foward and being the married couple that they should have been in the begining, and thats why their marriage was Not Easily Broken because they made through everything.


Quotation
"There was a tiny dot inside the one that said, "Having thoughts of suicide," but no check" (Jakes 151).


Reaction
When I read this quote I was shocked, but at the same time I didn't really feel sorry for her. The reason is because she digged a hole on her own and now she has to pay the consequence for her actions. But it still really surprised me because when I think of suicide I think that, that is the last resort and that suicide is not even a choice because every problem can be solved.