Wreckage of Reason Responses

The Blue Girl

The first time I read this story, I was confused by the first two paragraphs. The story starts out in the present, flashes to the past, then goes back to the present. I thought this was an interesting way to present the story because it makes you wonder what happened and how the characters got to where they are.

This story is also very mysterious. You never really figure out who the blue girl is or what happened to her. She isn't given a name and neither is the old woman she lives with. The feeling in this story is kind of dark and creepy. I t reminds me a little of a horror movie.

I think that part where Audrey saves the blue girl is very significant. None of the other older women try to but Audrey doesn't seem afraid. Audrey also is the only one who never seemed to be freaked out by the blue girl. Audrey saving the blue girl shows that sometimes kids are the strongest ones. They are the least judgemental. Their slight ignorance allows them to be non-judgemental. Audrey's mom was so worried that the blue girl had a disease or something wrong with her, but Audrey just accepted her for who she is. This is how people act in real life sometimes. We think that just because someone is different there is something wrong with them. But everyone needs love, just like the blue girl. This also goes to show how parents can learn from their kids. Audrey's mom learns from Audrey and goes to see the blue girl to bring her moon pies.

I still don't quite understand why the mothers go to see the blue girl or what the significance of the moon pies are. They say the blue girl is eating their secrets in the moon pies. This seems kind of abstract and must be a metaphor for something. The women never speak to the blue girl. They only go visit her. The women go in one at a time. You get a creepy sense of the house from the language used to describe it. They walk through the dark woods with no flashlights and it always seems chilly. The house is dark and empty. It all seems very mysterious.

At the end, the blue girl licks the narrators hands clean of the marshmallow from the moon pie. The narrator seems to always have held herself back from the blue girl even though she has changed her life so much. The narrator is holding onto some dark feelings and she says she has felt the cleanest she has ever felt after the blue girl licks her hands clean. This describes a weird relationship. It's like non-verbal communication between the two. The narrator bakes her secrets in the moon pies, and the blue girls eats them clean and it makes the narrator feel better.