Blog #5: Response to a personal Memoir

Blog Assignment #5: Responding to a Personal Memoir

            Abracadabra by Sharon Solwitz has a very touching feeling in its unique way of writing. Abracadabra is about two twins that after the years went by one of the twins died. The child got sick and the author reveals the tragedy by combining it with magic hoping the child will survive. The author reveals the emotions of how she felt losing a child and her thought of saying the word abracadabra to have the child back in life.  In her story the style of writing is very different from other authors because in her writing she gives advices and breaks things up as her memory goes.  At the end of the story she tells a little anecdote about her child and what happen the last day of his life.  The story begins with her child playing soccer and from that moment on the child wasn’t feeling that good and they rush to the hospital.  “I’m not afraid. Abracadabra. Open Sesame. I want him back in my house, in his room, at the table eating food I’ve cooked, fighting with his brother, talking on the phone, drawing his teddy bear pictures. Doing his homework or not doing it, even playing video games, which I discouraged, or upstairs asleep behind the protective wall of his stuffed animals” (Solwitz 682).  The author by using abracadabra makes us view how she hopes everything is from a mind of a child perspective and try to bring his son back to life.