Rain of Tears

Through the book Stitches A Memoir I have come to love the emotion and stages through David Smalls life. Every picture panel means something or is linked together to show a event that will happen later on in the book. David experiences many unusual family issues through out this whole book it is about his emotions in himself and how he copes and realizes the truth in the matter. His families constantly lying to him or abusing him in some way but when we first met David he was not interested in knowing or showing any of his emotions to anyone which is usually a side effect when parents do not care for him or more or less they only exhibit this by taking care of him when he is ill.

Most of his emotions we saw in this book was the fear and confusion cause by his mother but rarely cried until that fateful day at the psychologist that his parents made him go to which caused all his emotions to come out that we have never seen before. (Small 257-267). This was really interesting because once the rabbit was saying that it was just sad that everyone lied to him and he had to find out on his home well little did we know he would be a guide to the truth but also the key to unlocking his inner most thoughts and emotions.

He had never cried in front of anyone but once the rabbit explained that his mother did not love him which in his eyes right then showed  anger, disappointment, and hurt. After a few seconds and pictures of silence his realization that his mother really did not love him other wise she would have told him he had cancer, or that his grandma was really crazy even to her but she did not do this which made it all the more hurtful. This was a important moment because once he shed one tear rain came down which was a thought that that was his lonely tears that he had not got to shed for so long. These panels were dark with no emotion like the pit of his heart that had no interaction with the outside world.

Even though this was dark and emotional there was a point at the end a single wrinkle of water piercing the ground which signaled a change because not only does water bring sorrow it also brings a new beginning with it. When you see a moat appear from water that is the eeriness while when the rain comes and drops over a seed in soil then it will slowly bloom into a new flower. David was changing inside for good or for bad he had known what he needed to do and choose to make things right so he can live his new life. Showing that a new beginning was about to happen whether it be inside David or outside in his environment but either way change was coming and he needed to be ready to make these changes for himself because otherwise he would be in deep despair for the rest of his life.