Summary Of Sasha Dawn's Oblivion

Sasha Dawn’s Oblivion is about Calliope Knowles a 16 year old girl who has a compulsion to write which is also known as graphomania. Calliope’s compulsion to write was brought on by the disappearance of her father the reverend of the Holy Promise church, and a young girl from the church Hannah Ryne’s, as it gets closer to the anniversary of the disappearance Calliope starts to write and remember more of the night. This book is enjoyable because it doesn’t just focus on Calliope’s urges to write it also looks into her past before the night she was found in an abandoned apartment writing “I killed him” on the walls, the book also goes into detail about her foster family and her relationship with her friends.

Calliope meet with her friends at the Vagabond, as they are discussing homecoming Calliope has an urge to write as the words are nagging her to let them out she is trying to fight it, trying to find a red felt tip pen to write down the thoughts spinning round in her head but the pen was running out and she won't write with anything out her than a red felt tip.I interacted with this part of the book because it intrigued me that Calliope constantly has urges to write snippets of words that relate to her memories not that she knows what memories yet as she

can't remember anything from that night but all she has is the words scribbled down on her notebook "Walk not on the cobblestone cobblestone cobblestone cobblestone paths of her memory in black-veiled grief to relieve you." Personally, I found this moment freaky as you got to see inside her deep thoughts that she didn't even know we're there until she looked down at the words she had written before sitting on a page in her notebook, I also found it interesting at the fact that her new friend John even though he had never witnessed her have the urge to write before act like it was completely normal "When I look up, John's staring at me. It's a casual expression, as if he's not surprised with what's just transpired."
Calliope and her boyfriend Elijah and her two friends Lindsey and John go to their school homecoming like normal teenagers despite the fact that Calliope could suddenly have the desire to write, this shows the theme of mental disorders, compulsion and dating ( social actions) personally I think this links to modern society because people today don't hold back their lives just because they or their friend have a mental disorder or a compulsion to do something they just live their life like they normally would without that problem. "Then I see him: kissing some girl on the far side of the deck, his hand fondling a breast through her clothing." This shows the theme of cheating which is also linked to today's society as people instead of breaking up with the person cheat on them instead making their heart ache worse, personally I think it is sad that he found the need to cheat on Calliope as she gave him everything he needed when they meet at the apartment above the vagabond every Tuesday evening but he still found the urge to kiss the girl even if he was drunk.
As it gets closer to the anniversary of the disappearance Calliope is writing and remembering a lot more of that night , Calliope is at a therapy session with Dr Ewing when she gets the impulse to write even though she tries to resist it she couldn't help but space out from the world and scribble down on the piece of paper her thoughts "...bleeder and feed Burn her in an urn Crucify quarter and stone her Buried alive she'll claw at the case smile as you condone her" Calliope remembers what happened that night, that it was her, she was buried alive. Personally I found this relieving as you finally find out pieces of what happened that night at the Holy Promise church, the theme shown here is compulsion this relates to modern day society because many people have compulsions to do something whether it be to read, eat, sleep, write, or go for a run.
Sasha Dawn is a writer who even though has a character with a writing disorder and a very sudden mind still seems to make her book flow throughout the book, Sasha wrote the book in first person, Calliope's point of view.

This book was rather easy to read but could be rather difficult to understand as their was a lot happening with Calliope blacking out then coming back to reality and to have written a whole paragraph if words without knowing, this book would be good for a year 12 book club because even if they can't relate the characters in the book directly they still in a way can connect with them in a way whether it be they have a mental disorder or a compulsion to do something or if the are in a

relationship.