Heidi W. Durrow's The Girl Who Fell From The Sky

The Problem with Falling from the Sky We grow up in a world of judgment, differing views for the quality of life, and endangering experiences. As a result, our ways of coping can create an abundance of spiraling triggers that can build or break. Struggles of mental health in our society is highly prevalent and impacts many lives. Coping is huge for the many mental health problems that are established when we explore the ideas spread in the novel “The Girl Who Fell From The Sky” by Heidi W. Durrow. The story does not have numerical chapters and revolves around the viewpoints of a cast of characters. Rachel is the leading protagonist of the story in which the plot moves about an accident which occurred when she was a young girl and how she

It's blue glass with a cork stopper. My stomach tightens and my eyeballs get hot. I put all of that inside the bottle" (10-11). Rachel uses it to keep all the feelings about the accident and about her life inside this bottle. She doesn’t know how to deal with the feelings, and the people around her avoid talking about her past, so she all she can do is store the negative emotions away. The concept of the blue bottle helps Rachel a lot until she is much older. Due to the stress of an insult from her grandmother and the racist taunts of strangers makes "the blue bottle shatter inside me" (237). All of the pain and anger that Rachel kept inside comes out as aggression aimed towards her grandmother and Drew her Aunt Loretta’s boyfriend. It was possibly due to her mother's plunge into depression which lead to suicide and homicide, that Rachel knows the feelings people keep in their own blue bottles have the power to change their lives drastically. These repressed feelings can be the beginning of inspiration but can also cause trouble. Rachel tells Drew that blues music is