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__I Never Promised You a Rose Garden__ By: Joanne Greenberg Joanne Greenberg was an American author born on September 24th in Brooklyn, New York, 1932. She was married to Albert Greenberg and they lived near Lookout Mountain with their 2 sons that they had together. She graduated from the American University in Washington, D.C. and studied at the University of Colorado and the University of London. She won the Frieda Fromm-Reichman memorial award, William and Janice Epstein award, National Jewish Welfare Board Harry and Ethel Daroff award, and many more. She wrote short stories, novels, magazine publications and a movie adaption of the book that I read, __I Never Promised You a Rose Garden__. The movie came out in 1977 and also in 2004 in a movie with the same name. She has an alternate name of Hannah Green. With a major in anthropology, she teaches at the Colorado School of Mines.

 __Plot Synopsis__ The book __I Never Promised You a Rose Garden__ was about a girl who was put into a mental hospital for 3 years. The reason for that was because she was suffering from schizophrenia, a very mental illness. She was cutting her wrists and her parents did not know what else they could do with her but send her to the hospital. They wanted her to have help and the doctors said that was the best way to do it. To escape from her reality that she was very scared of, she created her own world, the Kingdom of Yr. It helped her escape a lot at first, but in the long run, it started to control her entire life. To go along with everything else, Deborah did not have an easy childhood at all. She had a brain tumor at the age of 5 and was abused by her neighbors and others. This book shows a persons struggle with an illness and all of the different things that can come along with it. Her parents were very frustrated with no improvement in the hospital, but over time Clara Fried, the therapist, gains Deborah's trust. It was very hard for her to do that but it helped Deborah a lot. She helped her realize that reality in the world was better than her being controlled in the Kingdom of Yr. In the end, Deborah actually goes a lot farther in life than anyone else would ever expect her to do, and everyone was proud of her for doing so. 

 __Criticism__ ** __What worked?__ **  I believe that Joanne Greenberg's appeal to emotion and how she showed the struggles people can go through when they have a mental illness worked out very well in the book. That was the main point and she made it very obvious which made it work great.

**__What didn't?__** I don't think there is much that didn't work but one thing that I could say is that the book is kind of prolonging and some things don't have much to do with the situation in the book. They were interesting, but they didn't have anything to do with the main point or the plot. 

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 255, 127); font-size: 140.4%; text-align: left; display: block;"><span style="font-size: 117%; color: rgb(249, 144, 211);"> __Literary Information__ <span style="color: rgb(237, 126, 49); font-size: 81%;"> <span style="color: rgb(237, 126, 49); font-size: 81%;">Author: Joanne Greenberg Genre: Autobiographical Novel Country: United States Publication Date: 1964

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(42, 153, 248); font-size: 120%; text-align: left; display: block;"><span style="color: rgb(249, 144, 211); font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(237, 126, 49); font-size: 81%;"> __Interesting Citations From The Book__ <span style="font-size: 85%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">"On admission patient appeared well oriented and logical in her thinkings, but as the interview went on, bits of the logic began to fall away and at anything which could be construed as correction or criticism, she showed extreme anxiety" (11). <span style="font-size: 85%; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">"'Show me the arm.' Deborah undid the sleeve, burning with shame. 'Wow!' the doctor said in her funny, accented colloquial English. 'That's going to make a hell of a scar!'" (52).<span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(20, 31, 225);"> <span style="font-size: 85%; color: rgb(31, 168, 31);">"I spent my hope singing and sewing with you, and when I stand next to you, you don't remember who I am" (274). <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(249, 144, 211);">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(42, 153, 248); font-size: 120%; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="color: rgb(249, 144, 211); font-size: 130%;">__Why Was The Book On The List?__ <span style="font-size: 95%; color: rgb(128, 53, 172); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__I Never Promised You a Rose Garden__ was on the "Outstanding Books for the College Bound" because first of all, it was a national best seller. If it sold a lot of copies it must have been a very good read. Also, it shows such emotion and seems so real when you are reading it because it actually it is a true story. Joanne Greenberg, or Hannah Green is an author who uses great amounts of pathos. When books use pathos, it makes them so much more interesting, everyone knows that. It teaches you how hard it can be for someone who isn't totally normal. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; color: rgb(249, 144, 211);"> <span style="color: rgb(249, 144, 211); font-size: 130%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; color: rgb(249, 144, 211);">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(42, 153, 248); font-size: 120%; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="color: rgb(249, 144, 211); font-size: 130%;"> __What Makes The Book Outstanding?__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; color: rgb(249, 144, 211);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(42, 153, 248); font-size: 110%;"> Many things make the book outstanding. The appeal to emotion makes it wonderful. It gives it more meaning than anything else would. The use of real life situations makes the book outstanding also, because nothing is more interesting than reality in a book. When you begin reading, you cannot stop because you get so into the book.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(42, 153, 248); font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; color: rgb(249, 144, 211);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(249, 144, 211); font-size: 136%; text-align: left; display: block;"> __Works Cited__ <span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Joanne Greenberg" Narpa Organization. Viewed on March 12th, 2009. [|http://www.narpa.org] [|/greenberg.htm] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"Joanne Greenberg Biography" Laurie Schwartz Guttenberg. Biographies. Viewed on March 12th, 2009. []  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">