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Cut Patricia McCormick

Cut Patricia McCormick. Kelsey Steele. What is it? In this novel a girl cuts herself, therefore her parents feel the need to put her into a residential treatment facility called Sea Pines.

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Cut Patricia McCormick

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  1. CutPatricia McCormick Kelsey Steele

  2. What is it? In this novel a girl cuts herself, therefore her parents feel the need to put her into a residential treatment facility called Sea Pines. Attribute: The way the characters dress and the things they wear prove that the story is realistic fiction. Title: Cut What is your book’s genre? Realistic Fiction Attribute:The setting takes place in a residential facility where a girl cuts herself, some have eating disorders, while others do drugs. There were no eating disorders back in the day. Attribute: Many new diseases have been discovered, diseases such as asthma and anorexia. Also various new food products have been created such as pizza. Example: What My Mother Doesn’t Know Author: Sonya Sones Example: If I Have A Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? Author: Melissa Kantor Example: Leaving Paradise Author: Simone Elkeles

  3. Attribute: The characters make the story realistic fiction. “She’s wearing a tank top, cutoffs, and flip- flops; I feel cold just looking at her” (57). “ She’s washed off all her makeup—her pencil-arched brows, her black eye-liner, her red lipstick—and she looks very young” (120). “The Dunkin’ Donuts is warm and bright; two men in coveralls are the only customers. . . . The swinging door to the kitchen opens and a waitress in a pink apron and hat comes out” (156).

  4. Attribute: Setting makes this book realistic fiction. “Past fast-food places and car repair shops and video stores” (10). “Later, while the other girls are in the dayroom watching Jeopardy I hide in a nook near the attendants’ desk, holding a pile of laundry and waiting until the coast is clear” (34). “ We cross the highway and swing past the pay phone where the operator helped me call collect. Then the businesses on the highway glide by, one by one. The carpet store with it’s loud sale signs” (164).

  5. Attribute: The problems the girls have and foods they now eat prove it’s a realistic fiction. “Most of the girls are anorexic. They’re called guests with food issues. Some are druggies. They’re called guests with substance-abuse issues. The rest, like me, are assorted psychos” (12). “Sydney says she wants pizza. Tara suggests low-fat yogurt” (49). “Asthma is a kind of allergic reaction. People can develop it when they come in contact with certain substances, like pollen or dust. Sometimes a viral infection can trigger an attack” (117, 118).

  6. EVALUATION: Is Cut a good example of a realistic fiction? • Patricia McCormick did a marvelous job at making this novel realistic fiction. The way she described these places made it so you could tell it could happen today. For example, Dunkin Donuts was one of the places she talked about, we have those today. Also because the things the characters go through and diseases they have weren’t known of back in the day. For example, they didn’t know what anorexia was or asthma. They’re all things that have newly been discovered. Therefore they make the story more realistic.

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