Hello, again. The weather outside is quite nice, but at the same time, scares me. I don't like winter. I want to be able to wander the streets aimlessly with nothing to do, but thats over. Eh, oh well. I'll adjust.
Any who. The book. Right. So my book is very interesting, very sad. Danielle is realizing how her family is slowly drifting apart. Her mom got a new job, and is now rarely home. With school, work, and partying late at night, Danielle rarely ever sees her anymore. Danielle's dad can also see what is happening.

"Maybe during the month my mother was building herself a new life, Dad could have changed things. Perhaps if he had talked to her, she would have stayed. But it was probably too late for talking. At that point, little could have been done. And besides, my father didn't believe in negotiation. Jabbering doesn't solve anything, he would say. He would never, for any reason, have admitted that he had driven her away."

He realizes he is losing her, and it is killing him. His drinking is becoming constant. He had cheated on his wife before, and hes realizing it may be a two way street. The book does a flashback, and talks about another hard time for Danielle's family. When Danielle was eleven, her mom had gave birth to a still-born. Danielle says her mom was in her bed for weeks and would rarely leave the room, she seemed to be ill. But one day when Danielle comes home from school, she sees her mom is not there. After her dad comes home, he tells the kids the news. Danielle is crushed. Even though she didn't know her mom was pregnant, for the brief moment she knew her mom had given birth (and it hadn't died), she couldn't wait to have another kid in the house. She thought that maybe there would still be hope for the family to stay together. Her dad leaves the kids alone for the night, and she is forced to be the parent of the house.

"I told them Dad's annoyance meant he loved us more than words could express; his drinking meant he sufferet more acutely than other people; his coldness was a cover for intense feeling. I apologized for Dad and forfave him in advance. I interpreted Dad and spoke for Dad. I convinced myself that I was capable of this. And sometimes I was."

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"Presently she began again. "I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people who walk with their heads downwards!"
-Alice's Adventures Under Ground.
Lewis Carroll

Hello, silly blogger people. I am currently reading a book called Falling Through the Earth for my outside reading project. This book is about the Vietnam war, and how it was to grow up in the 60's. The book starts with Danielle Trussoni and her dad as run aways in winter of '85. At this point Danielle is only twelve years old.
After that, there is a flash back to Danielle's childhood. It talks all about her dads problems with drinking, and arrogance. Danielle's dad is a war veteran, and often times he is haunted by his time at war. Danielle's dad beleives pain makes one stronger. He is also a man that if he is confronted with a problem, he believes if it is completely ignored, it will go away. The first chapter also talks about Danielle's parents haveing marriage issues. Their relationship had started off as a typical American marriage, but after the war, things went downhill. All the arguing, denial, and stress get very overwhelming for Danielle's mom, and at one point she attempts to leave with the kids. They got a couple miles away, and then realized they had to turn back.

"She gave my hand a reassuring squeeze as we turned back, toward Trussoni Court. We had nowhere else to go but home."

In Danielle's early twenties, she decides to fly to Vietnam to learn more about the culture and how it was effected by the war. There, people view her as different, and a man even starts to follow her. She sees how things have changed since the war.

"He was wounded, but he had made it home. And he believed, like so many men after so many wars, that he could leave it all far, far behind."

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