Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes Analysis

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In the book " Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes", Sarah's classmates do choose to bypass or ignore her scars. I believe the reason why people arnt very sympathetic or aknoledge the suffering of others is because they have their own scars whenther they are on the inside or out. I also think they ignore people who are suffering because they can be afaid and to scared to be invole, or in Mark Brittian's perspective, "that a person that has scars like Sarah Bynes and a person with few scars like Mark both have an equal life and that they arew both sacred." I think that Mark, Jody and Eric all have inward scars. Marks scar is that he feels a lot of pressure and is always trying to perform. Jody's scar is that she was forced by Mark to get an abortion

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