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.