How do we see things differently as adults than when we are growing up? This how the novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, gave a huge image about Rosie Cooke’s life who grew up in a very special environment. She thought everything in her life was natural, even when she was growing up with a chimpanzee as her sister.Later, she reached the age where she learned the way she was living was unusual. Rosie’s story is similar to my story. As a child, everything was simple and normal for me, until I get to age 10, when I noticed that I grew up in a unique community, as well. All the relatives and neighbors that were surrounding me had their unique personalities and ideas about life.
It is necessary to state that my childish world was mostly created by personality of my mother who was always telling me that all people are nice and I should treat everyone with respect. I truly believed this fact until the age of 10, when at school I saw other children laughing at the girl just because she was a little bit overweight. Whenever I tried to talk to my Mom about this situation, she still told me that people are nice. However, I have realized that I have witnessed such situations before but i have truly believed that all people are nice just because of the community that I have lived in. I have not seen any ugly people in my life. All of the neighbors and my family were always polite and happy people who did not have an urge to pick on someone else. At least, my childish perception of things have seen it like that.
However, at the age of 10 I felt myself as Rosie. I could not imagine the world of mean people. All people that have surrounded me were always nice and friendly. Especially, considering the fact that I was a little kid, who would be mean to me?
Rose believed that having Fern in her family is normal. Just like I believed that all people are nice. The book “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” takes after Rosemary Cooke as she grapples with her past, her present, and her future. The story, as Rosemary states in the opening sections, starts in the center years of her life. But my realization of reality starts when I was 10. Known as Rose in the book, she begins amidst stories since she observes those parts to be the most intriguing. Rose has been going to school in Davis California throughout the previous five years, still with no thought of what she needs to do with her future. Rose considers a strained association with her guardians. She's on talking terms with her mom, however she never converses with her dad outside of family social occasions. My situation is completely opposite, because I thought that all people are good. When they do talk, things are constantly strained. Without giving numerous points of interest, Rose likewise alludes to two different kin (Fowler 54) . In my childhood I also believed that there are only good people.
In our story Rosemary Cooke is the same as I am to some extent, and she's in school when the novel opens. As Rosemary lets us know, she's figured out how to "[s]kip the beginning and [s]tart in the middle" of her story. That is on account of in the event that you heard the starting immediately, you'd misunderstand the thought regarding one of her relatives. Rosemary needs us to meet her guardians; her twin sister, Fern; and her more seasoned sibling, Lowell; gradually, in flashbacks. She's just reluctantly consented to discuss her family in light of the fact that as she at last concedes, she's the main grown-up offspring "not currently in a cage" (Fowler 23).
Rose reviews that at the time when her family moved and left Fern, Lowell began to revolt and invested next to no energy with the crew. Just like I, Rosy did not know what’s wrong. He fled amid his senior year and joined a creature dissident gathering, which is the reason the FBI is still after him. Rose recollects that she experienced serious difficulties up. When she was more youthful, she was continually talking and active, yet that was on account of she was raised close by Fern. Climbed continually alluded to herself as monkey young lady, and it took her years to end up what she considered ordinary. Rose smothered a large portion of her recollections about Fern. In any case, when she sees her sibling, she starts to remember everything about the past (Fowler 64).
I was close with all the people in my community. Rose and Fern were amazingly close, however Rose was a desirous five year old who advised her family that they needed to pick between having her or having Fern. The family picked Rose, and Fern was sent off to an alternate lab. Lowell had attempted to go and free her. With no experience to depend on in such a circumstance, he was gotten and needed to flee, prompting him getting to be needed by the FBI. Amid his short stay, Harlow succumbs to Lowell. She takes his sudden takeoff hard and turns into a creature extremist herself.
Rose educates her family concerning meeting Lowell, and they go into more noteworthy insight about what happened with Fern. They tell Rose that it wasn't only her final proposal, however it was additionally the way that Fern was developing and getting more grounded which constrained them to abandon her. While she wasn't malignant, she was starting to inadvertently hurt individuals. Rose's family concurred that it wouldn't be sheltered to have Fern around the kids. Along these lines, when Rose made the final offer it simply appeared well and good to discover a lab for Fern. Rose recollects the amount she adored Fern, despite everything she thinks of her as a sister (Fowler 87).
In conclusion, I would like to say that all the kids have their own understanding of what normal is. The people who surround them during the early years of life create the overall understanding of what normal is. And it is not until the later life that children realize that real standards of normality may be a little bit different. What children considered ok may not be liked by the overall audience. Just like Rose believed that having a chimp sister is fine, I considered all the people to be nice. However, as I grew up I realized that all people are different, but there is still something nice in every person.
Works Cited
Fowler J. We are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Web. 2014. P. 312.
