SPLIT Swati Avasthi

Text-to-Text
In Split Jace and his brother Christian have a mother who cannot take care of them, because of an abusive father. They both feel the pull towards their mother and the need to take care of her because she has mentally trapped herself from moving on and leaving her abusive husband. In Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen Ruby and her sister Cora both feel the pull to help take care of their mother. Their mother who drank and often left Ruby alone for days, yet they both still felt they couldn't completely erase their mother, because she was family. In both books their mothers can't take care of themselves and should've taken better care of their children but their children both would still help and be there for their mothers.

Text-to-Self
In the book Jace goes to a Montessori school, like I did in middle school. In the book Jace said, "The classroom is weird. It's more like someone's house: there's a kitchen on one side where a girl is at the stove, grilling toast, while a younger guy washes some dishes. Against the far wall is a workshop with hammers, a table saw, a bucksaw, and rows of other equipment." (Avasthi 62). That was what my middle school building was like, a renovated old house. The school was really interesting and exciting because a lot of work was independent.


Text-to-World
In real life a lot of child/spouse abuse does happen. There are a lot of statistics for it, such a the sheet of statistics Mirriam(Christian's girlfriend) gives to Jace. It also is about how Jace having been abused by his father and watching his brother and mother get abused had to deal with the mental consequences long after the physical reminders healed. That is true for real life situations, having to deal with the after effects of abuse.