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** __Joanne Greenberg wrote //I Never Promised You A Rose Garden// as an autobiographical piece. She wrote the book under the pen name Hannah Green. The book was fictionalized but based off of the treatment she received at Chestnut Lodge Hospital in Rockville, Maryland. The doctor in her book is closely related to her real doctor, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann worked with other doctor colleagues Harry Stack Sullivan and Clara Thompson. They were known for establishing the basis for interpersonal school of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. They tended to focus mainly on schizophrenia, although that was by no means their limit. Greenberg's treatment at Chestnut Lodge lasted from 1948 to 1951. She attended college and still saw Frieda Fromm-Reichmann until 1955. Her story was a success. Joanne Greenberg, her mother, and Dr. Fromm-Reichmann had planned on writing a book together on Joanne and Frieda's ordeals but had no chance because of Fromm-Reichmann's death in 1957. Joanne Greenberg then, wrote the story of her life on her own.  "I wrote [//I Never Promised You a Rose Garden//] as a way of describing mental illness without the romanticisation that it underwent in the sixties and seventies when people were taking LSD to simulate what they thought was a liberating experience. During those days, people often confused creativity with insanity. There is no creativity in madness; madness is the opposite of creativity, although people may be creative //in spite// of being mentally ill." - //Joanne Greenberg//  = __Plot Synopsis __ = I Never Promised You A Rose Garden is a riveting semi-autobiography of a young girl struggling with a mental sickness. Deborah Blau, a 16 year old Jewish-American girl created the “Kingdom of Yr,” a world used as protection from the cruel and injustice reality of life. When Deborah was five she had a surgery performed on her ovaries to remove a dangerous tumor. It was an embarrassing and traumatic ordeal. As a young child, Deborah suffered persecution from her anti-Semitic neighbors and other children. When Yr was first created in Deborah’s mind it was a peaceful and relaxing place but as time went on Yr became a dictatorship controlling Deborah’s every action and word as if she were a puppet. When Deborah’s parents finally agree to admit her to a psychiatric hospital, times became harder. Deborah’s family was affected almost as much as she. Her extremely bright doctor, Clara Fried works long and hard with Deborah for three years to help her decide which world she chooses to stay in. =__<span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #23a2fb; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">Criticism __= <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #f854bf; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #ed1281; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">There is not much negative criticism for I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Some tips when reading this book is to: <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #f854bf; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #ed1281; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">-Pay close attention to Deborah's tantrums and the symbolism behind each. <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #f854bf; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #ed1281; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">-Know who each character is and what their own sickness is. -Try seeing the world from Deborah’s point of view Otherwise this book may be confusing. =<span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #00ffa2; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">__Litarary Information__ = <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #f62ccb; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #2851dc; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">The genre of //I Never Promised You a Rose Garden// is a semi-autobiography. The style of writing is a novel. The Point of View is third person omniscent. <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #7d12ed; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> =__<span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #90ff00; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">Why is this book an outstanding book? __= <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #f74545; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">//I Never Promised You a Rose Garden// was placed on the "Outstanding Books For College Bound List" because it is about a struggle that people out there do actually go through. It is an inspirational and original story. I would recommend this book because it gives a different perception on life. Joanne Greenberg creates an "out there" way of thinking for the reader. It is outstanding because she shows the sickness from different points of view. Greenberg wrote the book in third person omniscent to show how a single life can affect so many other people. The way symbolism is used to connect Deborah's "Kingdom of Yr" and the real world is extraordinary. Only a brilliant writer could twist the reader's mind to see the world from a Scizophrenic's point of view and have the reader actually understand the emotion and struggle Deborah lives through.
 * <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #ff00c5; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">Biography of Joanne Greenberg

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