Cut by Patricia McCormick Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Cut
Book Review: Amazing. Purely. Amazing.
Summary: 5 Stars
Cut by Patricia McCormick is a very inspiring book for high schoolers. It shows how a teen age girl can grow to learn that she is stronger than some of the temptations life throws at us.
The book is basically about a teen girl named Callie and how she deals with her habit of self injury (cutting). Callie goes to a residential treatment facility so that she can get help. There's one problem though. She won't talk. Not to her mom, not to the other girls, not her therapist, no one. The book is written as if all of her thoughts were being typed onto paper, and as if the reader was her therapist.
As Callie spends more and more time there, she grows stronger ans stronger. One day, she finally starts talking. At first she keeps her words short and to the point. Nothing to elaberate. Nothing to long or that will take a long time to explain.
Callie becomes friends with the girls and joins them in conversations over their meals and during group. She teaches an excellent lesson for any teenager.
Book Review: Amazingly written story
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow! I just finished this book, and it blew my mind. Its helpful to read about someone the same age as you, struggling with the same problem. I know many other teenage girls out there can relate to Callie, which makes this such a great read. No matter what kinds of problems you struggle with, as a reader you easily see yourself in Callie's place, struggling to find a way out.Book Review: Amazon Review For the Book "CUT"
Summary: 5 Stars
In the book, a girl named Callie has to go to a center called Sea Pines to get help. Callie is in a group of other girls who have to get help with different conditions that they have. She has to learn how to deal with her mother's attitude toward her, her brother's sickness, and the fact that her father is always gone. The hard part is that she has to deal with all this, and she can not cut herself.
I like this book because it is a real life situation about a girl with problems, and it shows how different people handle and overcome dangerous situations. The important meaning of the book is that this problem really does happen to people and it is a serious issue.
Book Review: Amber James-Bak Middle School of the Arts
Summary: 5 Stars
Callie is 15. She cuts herself. Enough said for the deadly quiet Callie, but apparently not for Patricia McCormick, who managed to create one of the most enticing novels with such a simple, yet sensitive, subject matter. Cut is such a powerful novel because everyone can connect with Callie, her powerlessness, her vulnerability. How she felt that first tingle across her scalp when she touched the EXACTO knife blade to her palm. We all struggle to find that sense of control and self-satisfaction that she gets from the slick, straight lines she carves into the skin on her palms. Most of us find fulfillment in other ways. Cut is just a novel of how some teens solve that equation of self-control and self-realization. Take some of the other patients at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility", for example. Some starve themselves, for eating is the only thing they can control, so they don't. For others, the high they get from smoking crack is their getaway. But for Callie, all it takes is one string of blood on her wrist, and for a brief moment, she's on top of the world. Only, she is on top of (or trapped in) her own, silent, dark world, for she doesn't talk to anybody. She doesn't want to associate with anyone else at all. But her silence can only last for so long. Cut relates the difficulties of millions of today's youth with one girls story. Yes, Cut is a fictional novel, but it feels very real, very believable, once you start reading it. All the sudden, you are caught inside Callie's destructive world, with no way out but the source of her emotions and actions, the way she got into this line of destruction. This is what makes the novel so genuine. It's unbelievable what sentiment and struggle is woven in Cut's tapestry. I would recommend Cut to everyone, parents and teens especially. I think Cut would be an excellent way for some teenagers to grasp some of their own feelings, and parents to comprehend their children and their actions. Enjoy!
Book Review: An Accurate Portrayal, May Oversimplify Therapeutic Process
Summary: 4 Stars
As a Master's level therapist working with adolescent girls in a residential treatment setting, I was interested in finding a book that might help my clients who use cutting as an "emotional release". This book does very well in that vein, however, without processing with an adult, I could see that this book may lead some adolescents to believe that cutting is an issue that can be "cured" quickly, and that "talk therapy" is the ONLY way of resolving similar issues. "Cut" does a good job of discussing the long process of building a rapport with a therapist or other professional. The book does an excellent job of illustrating that one needs to be frank with her thoughts and feelings, particularly with herself, in order to begin to resolve some of her underlying issues. I enjoyed the author's portrayal of the residential facility, particularly how well she portrayed the fact that children quickly pick up on who is or is not committed to their job and who is easy to manipulate. IN SUMMARY: An easy to read book that flows well; Highly Recommended for the teen reader who struggles with identifying and expressing her feelings as long as an adult discusses with her that the book illustrates the BEGINNING of the therapuetic process for Callie, rather than a "quick cure".