"Vital Signs"

Today nobody in our group had done this reading and we all sort of picked a section of it to try and skim over so that we could somewhat participate in what we were supposed to be doing in class. The section i got was the end part of how the girl remembered the incident and how her mother found her and how she got to the hospital. I just finished reading the whole essay and obviously now it makes more sense. It's not just a memoir of how she got attacked by vicious huskies. The opening of the essay is about her stay in the hospital and then the essay tells you how she got there. The end part with the fish shows sometime in her life after the attack. I like the "Small Purchase" section the best. What happened to her as a little girl was so horrible and there are many people who have gone through something like that. When something like that happens to someone, they may loose all hope but they also may get something surprisingly good out of the experience. I think it is really cute that she found a fish that also lost his eye and that she could connect to it.The way she describes what the fish does in its tank lets us know some of the ways that she went on living her life after the attack. This essay is a sad one and it is about something scary and unfortunate that happened but it is also an essay about hope,strength, courage, and resilience.