lleana's Questions "Field Guide To Getting Lost" Abandon "How did Marine die and what impace did her sudden death have upon others?"

In the story "Field Guide To Getting Lost" there was a character by the name of Marine, who was one of Rebeccas child hood friends. Marine loved playing instruments, she was even in a band. Rebecca states that one day she went to watch Marine, her mother, and her haughty cocaine dealer friend play during midnight mass." Marine was a drug user, she used drugs before and she even told Rebecca she was off of drugs. The Tuesday when Marine and Rebecca went out to have a good time, that is the same day she died. At the party marine took Heroine, but it was not the Heroine that killed her. It was the shot of speed her companions gave her to "wake her up": the heroine and speed are a deadly combination. She could have been saved if the friends who she was with called the paramedics who could've revived her with a single injection, but the friends were scared of legal consequences. Marine sudden death affected many people, her mother, her family, her husband, and most of all her friend Rebecca. Rebecca saved Marines clothes, that she left in her car, that early Tuesday, Rebecca even saved the tootsie roll wrapper that was in one of the shirts pocket. In the story Abandon, Rebecca uses symbolism and irony to coney the reader, She uses symolism by having the drugs represent some sort of escape for Marine. She uses irony by stating that Marine quit using drugs but in the end gets killed by the combination of Heroine and Speed.

Abandon

1) What was Rebecca's relation to Marine?
2) What is the significant of naming Marine's friend a cocaine dealer friend a cocaine dealer friend?
3) What is the importance of Marines marriage?
4) How does the author use imagery when describing Marines death?
5) What is the importance of Marines husband?
6) How does Rebecca use symbolism in this story?
7) What three things defined Marine for Rebecca?
8) What is the significance of Marines beauty?
9) Why would Rebecca rather describe Marine as three places than three characteristics?
10) Why is the importance of describing Marines family relationship?

The Full Moon

It's Wednesday and my lil man comes today.
I pick him up at noon, he doesn't know ima surprise tonight
And show him the full moon.
We get to the house it's a quarter pass nine
I tell him jump behind the truck and sit on your behind.
This is the first time in a long while we actually get to bond
Ever since his mother took him from me he's been gone.
Me and the little man use to be best friends
I would always tell him everything from start to the end
Then one day his mother took him and he was gone like the wind.
But now he's here with me an were goin to look at the full moon.
We have the time of our lives playing and watching the moon
If I could I would stay up wit him all the way till noon
But if I don't drop him back off before 11 his mother will act like a baboon.
I wish things could have been different so the three of us could sit and watch the full moon.

A winter walk

It was November 24th I was leaving the bar on a cold winter snow night. The snow was coming down like bullets coming down in the Vietnam war. As I was walking I started to see all my fallen friends who were standing next to me in battle. I hurried home and quickly went to sleep