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Situations you'll never forget! "No one to trust" by Iris Johansen A young woman, Elena, grown up in the guerrilla fights in Columbia tries to hide her child from a drug dealer. It's their son, because he raped her, and he needs a son to go along with his "bloodline". She's all by herself, she doesn't trust anyone. She knows she needs help; she can't do it by herself. As he's looking for her all of her memories are coming back in her mind, the fights, the rape, the fear to lose her son. If you have a child which grows up in an adult environment that's violent is going to change its whole life, the child is never going to have a "real" childhood. It's getting grow-up much faster.
It will never have the time to play and just be child. As a result of being raised in a violent adult environment a person can experience horrible situations that may change his or her whole life. A child will never forget what he or she experienced. "I will. I don't want to be awake right now." (Johansen 99) The main character's kid had just seen someone dying.
He'd just experienced something horrible that night and being awake would be more frightening than the oblivion of sleep. An adult will never forget his or her experience either, it doesn't matter if their good or not, they made in the past. It also doesn't matter how long ago it happened. "Stupid to be this feeble. After all she had gone through, to have the sight of that blasted gym turn into this quivering weakling. It was the shock.
She hadn't been in a gym in the last six years. She hadn't realized all those memories would come flooding back to her." (Johansen 116) Elena got raped in the gym and as she goes into a gym for the firs time, all the memories to the rape are coming back into her mind. "What do you want to know? Could I do it? Of course I could do it. My father used to send me out to clear the way before the troops moved out." (Johansen 116) She can't just forget about it, she has already done it.
It's hard to just forget. No matter what happens, something you just can't forget. Everyone should try to avoid getting other people into the same bad situations as they have been in before. "You're supposed to work to give your children a better life than you've had yourself" (Johansen 78) The main character had a bad childhood with a lot of war, death and pain. And she wants to give her son a better life. She's trying her hardest.
She wants to avoid getting him in situations he could experience something bad. She wants to avoid getting him into bad situations. "Ever since his birth she'd have protected him from the violence she'd lived with all her life, and now in one night he'd been exposed to this horror." (Johansen 91) Conclusion: Nobody can forget the horrible things that happen as a child. A child will never forget the experience he / she just made. It doesn't matter if their good or not.
A grown-up will never forget what he / she experienced as a child, it's going to determine his / her whole life. For example if a person got attacked from a cat as a child, if you remember it or not, he / she is going to be scared his / her whole life. If a person has made bad experiences, he or she should avoid getting other people into the same kind of situations. For example if a person did drugs and got into this whole "drug-hell" he or she should get avoid that other people are going to make the same mistakes as they did.
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