Rachael Stevick

I 100% feel that the time period has effected the character's in this book. Not even one specific person but all of them. While researching for our project today that during this time people with mental illness were treated much differently than they are not. Although even now we will never know whats it like unless we have an illness we have a much better understanding. In the 1950s they were put in heavy restraints and had brain testing done to them. A sense of torture, They also had behavioral therapy but not to the degree we have today which means the sense of "figuring them out" was not too effective.

In this book they split the patients from Chronics, who are supposedly never getting out, people in wheelchairs, and the vegetables.  And the Acutes the one who they find curable. This in itself shows they do not have a true grasp of these illnesses. If they were here today they could get medication that might work, real therapy. seen by doctors who truly care, and a community of people who have more moral support. in the 1950s I feel the treatment the institution is providing is making them worse. For example the narrorater is said to be a Chronic however I think he was a man with a few problems and everyone in their drove him to insanity. I hope to find I am wrong but time will tell.