I Never Promised You A Rose Garden Thesis

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The novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden begins with a 16-year-old named Deborah Blau being driven to a mental hospital by her parents, Esther and Jacob, after a failed suicide attempt. Deborah suffers from schizophrenia and has created her own world called “the Kingdom of Yr.” When the real world becomes to confusing, Deborah retreats Yr. Deborah had named herself Januce in Yr. and when she accidentally wrote this name on a school paper, Yr created the Censor to keep Yr hidden from Earth. During Deborah’s first session with Dr. Fried, the doctor explains to Deborah that she does indeed believe that she is sick and that with hard work, they can treat her. When Esther comes to visit, she tells Dr. Fried about their family history. She says …show more content…

Fried attempts to persuade Esther that her and Jacob are not to blame for Deborah’s illness. Deborah tells Dr. Fried about when her tumour was found, and she was angry that the doctors had lied to her. Deborah accidentally speaks Yri and terrified, she immediately escapes to Yr. Deborah meets another patient on her ward named Carla. Dr. Fried pushes Deborah to explain her feelings and suffering in English but she has a difficult time. Later that day, the gods of Yr tell Deborah that she is not “one of them,” which causes Deborah to cut her arm with a piece of metal. She is moved to the Disturbed Ward. Deborah decides to tell Dr. Fried about Yr and how at first it was comforting, but now it is a scary and painful place. Deborah later suffers from a psychotic breakdown, so she is put into restraints. In her next session, Deborah tells Dr. Fried that the gods of Yr told her that Three Changes and Their Mirrors would lead up to her death. The gods of Yr tell Deborah that she will never be able to go into the real world again, which causes her to have another breakdown. The next time she sees Dr. Fried, Deborah says that her essence is poisonous and she destroyed her sister. Deborah confesses that she attempted to kill her sister when she was a

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