"When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you--not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?"
Rose's marriage was falling apart. She was getting a divorce. Her husband and her fell in love because she was the victim to his hero. They were ying and yang. They were two halves coming together as a whole. The emotional effect of one always needing saving and the other saving them fueled their love. This is how they survived. But when their marriage was falling apart, Rose had no one to save her.
The literary term I chose for this chapter is EPIPHANY (a moment of sudden revelation or insight). Rose's mom had an epiphany at an early age that she can't rely on anyone to save her. Rose learned this same information when her husband asked her for a divorce and she realized she would soon have no one left to save her. I think everyone has these epiphanies. Even if we believe we don't think we need to lean on anyone for help, we do. Everyone needs help whether they want it or not. Even if we go into a situation saying we can do it on our own, chances are you're going to need help. We just need to know we cannot rely on help all the time.
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