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| Greenberg, Joanne: I never promised you a Rose Gar
Greenberg, Joanne: I never promised you a Rose Gar
Personal comment: Es fällt einem schwer nach diesem
Buch, psychisch Kranke noch als solche zu sehen. Dieses Buch vermittelt
lebensnah, daß in einem kranken Menschen auch eine Seele mit
Gefühlen, die auch jeder andere Mensch hat, steckt. Ergreifend wird
geschildert, wie Deborah Blau aus ihrem imaginären Königreich Yr, das
sie gegen die Umwelt abschirmt, entkommt. Andere psychisch Kranke scheinen in
diesem Buch eher die normalsten zu sein. Die Wärter4 benehmen sich
nämlich hin und wieder NEUROTISCH(st). Auch etwas anderes konnte ich noch
feststellen, war an diesem Buch ungewöhnlich. Bisher hatte ich immer
gedacht, daß psychisch Kranke von einer Unlust befallen waren, und auf
keinen Fall so unternehmungslustig wie Deborah waren. Deborah knüpfte
Freundschaften und floh sogar einmal aus dem Krankenhaus. Interessant sind auch
die Unterschiede zwischen den einzelnen Psychologen, wie z.B.: zwischen Dr.
Fried, die ihr Metier beherrscht und ihrem Vertreter, der den Eindruck erweckt
überhaupt nichts zu können.
Es war bis jetzt eines der besten Bücher, die ich
in englischer Sprache gelesen habe.
PFLICHTBUCH!!!
DEBORAH
BLAU
Deborah grew up in the years of the 2nd WW
with all the problems. Deborah is a JEW.
This fact is of great importance. Everyone
thinks that the Americans never had antisemitic thoughts. But little Deborah had
to fight against these foughts until she couldn´t take it any longer. So
she made herself a world without war and right wing activists and called it
YR. Yr is land
with a different time and calendar and
with a DIFFERENT language. Deborah hides herself in this “land” to
escape from the problems which concern her most. Despite this fact Deborahs
parents take her into a hospital in the land where she gets to know Dr. Fried a
female psychologist who tries to help her. The complete control of the collect,
so she calls the emperors of Yr, causes an uncertainty which makes it impossible
for her to bring up a relationship . For every attempt they punish her.
At this point I should perhaps introduce you io
the land of Yr. Lactaemon and Anterrabae, the Censors who try to hide her from
the world are the ones who hurt her. With the sentence “You´re not
one of them.” they try to explain her that she is different. and Deborah
believes. You have to imagine that these figures exist only in her imagination.
Obviously she doesn´t want to live in the real world. Deborah herself built
up this kingdom with all it´s fascinating and terrifying horror. Dr. Fried
who always tries to be a good friend to her, helps Deborah wherever it is
possible. Lactaemon calls her Furii, that is the Yri word for firebird. The
language consists more or less of fragments of german, french and english
(slang). in several meetings in Furii´s room Deborah shows more and more of
her secret kingdom. And one more thing is getting obvious. She focuses every
problem into one person. Her Father. Although her father never treated her bad,
she is afraid of him.
The longer the treatment of Deborah lasts, the
more sick she gets. One day she tries to commit suicide. She takes a cigarette
and burns holes into her skin and then tries to burn herself. (-->Furii -
Firebird)
She is put on D -Ward the place with high
security in the hospital. There she meets Carla and Helen, also some
“insane sick people” as she calls them . She builds up a
relationship. That helps her to get into distance with Yr. The collect, as she
calls the assembled members of Yr, protest. But the world has grabbed Deborah.
One spring morning she can go out into the garden of the hospital. She finds a
different world to Yr and that helps her immeditately. Her behaviour improves.
She is nearly normal, and is allowed to go home for five days.
But at home everything is different. Her
parents and relatives and her sister, they all try to be as polite as possible
and that causes sometimes a very tensed situation. Every night she has to take
sedatives, but one night at home she hears a disput about her and she feels that
she is not wanted anymore. She returns to hospital in a different mood. She
changes her parents. Dr. Fried and one young student psychologist Dr. Halle are
now the new parents.
One day Carla and Deborah go out and return
very late. But they decide to return a bit later and run away. But they come
back. They are put in seperate rooms. But the reaction of the doctors is
different to their expectations.
Deborah and Carla get more privileges. Deborah
wants to start a career because they take her in the A Ward, the rooms with the
lowest security measures. She signs in at high school. She has to pass an exam
but Dr. Fried and Dr. Halle help her in her struggle to come into high school
and finally she passes.
With the help of her social worker she gets
more and more sane. Finally she finishes her relationship with Yr. She complains
that she is “ONE OF THEM” and with one single Good bye the kingdom
of Yr disappears forever.
You may wonder about the strange title “I
never promised you a rose garden” At one meeting when Deborah says that
she wants to escape from Yr Dr. Fried says “ You´re a remarkable
girl. But remember my words when you´re out in the reality: I never
promised you a rose garden, I never promised you justice, I never said, that it
will be easy for you!” These sentences were one of the most moving sort. I
have to say that I never read such a good book. If someone has time to read it
please, read it . I think the one will never say again “Look at this fool
he behaves like an insane.”
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