EC 2

I chose to do my blog on the monologue hunger. The first thing that drew me to it was the title. I knew it was going to be about someone who struggled with eating. Before I began reading I wasn't sure if it would be about an over eater or someone who doesn't eat.  Something else that also caught my attention was the way it was written. I enjoyed the blog style. It reminded me of journal entries.  The main character in Hunger struggles with body image, and even though these monologues may not be based off of one person's story they are things that really happen in our world.  Many, many teenage girls and teenage boys struggle with body image and go through similar things that this character goes through.  The character in this story continues to tell herself that she will look beautiful 'soon'. She's almost there but she's gotta see all of the bones in her body to be happy. She talks about how she tries to model herself after a cow, because they graze.  All of these things sound completely insane to me, but to her they make sense and they're her vision of perfect.  It's really sad how some people really live their life like this. "can't stop crying. disgust myself. family forced me to eat a meal 'cause it's christmas eve. now i'm gross. putrid. foul." The holidays are supposed to be a time of celebration, happiness, and just overall family time. Instead of this young lady enjoying the fact that she has a happy, healthy family, she's too worried about being forced to eat. It's disgusting no one should feel gross 24/7, everyone should be able to see some sort of beauty in themselves. There isn't a perfect image, and no one should ever go after a goal so hard that they hurt themselves.