Requiem+For+A+Dream+Book+Meeting+2

Meeting 2- From pages 98-180 a few events occur. Marion makes another appointment to see her therapist and we talked about why she needed to go. She needed to go just so her parents didn't know she wasn't seeing her therapist anymore. Harry didn't like her going just because it was another man, and she needed to go out to dinner with him. This made Harry very jealous. Harry and Tyrone struggled throughout this section. They had trouble selling heroin, and their initial successes in the drug world have taken a turn for the worse. Their financial situation is in a decline. Also, we talked about Harry's mother, Sarah. In this section of the book, she takes a big mix of her pills. This is where she starts going crazy. The television that she always watches is her fix. Fix meaning drug. She is very old and that is her only thing to do, considering Harry isn't there all the time and that she is a widow.
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**Questions-** 1. Why does Marion have to go to the therapist again, and why doesn't her boyfriend want her to go to the therapist. she has to continue to go to the therapist because she doesn't want her parents to know she stopped going. Harry does not want Marion to go to see the therapist because he is jealous and doesn't want her seeing another man 2. What is the importance of the TV reoccurring throughout the book. The TV is a symbol of her craziness. 3. What do you think about Sara's mental health throughout this section of the book. Sara is going more crazy, she is mixing her pills 4. What are some of the side affects Sara experiences because of the pills? since sarah is mixing pills they are making her go crazy, she starts hallucination and there is one scene where everything is in slow motion. 5) Are Harry's and Tyrone's friendship the downfall of them, or do they help each other reach one another fate? it is the downfall, they are bad influences for eachother, they both want to sell drugs and make money therefor they both wind up in very bad situations.