Girl Interrupted p.97-101.”Calais is Engraved on My Heart”
*Answer only if you have read the story*
Questions to be completed:

1. Why is it strange that Alice Calais has never had honey, but is at Mclean?

2. What are the differences between their ward and maximum security?

3. What has happened to Alice? How is the nurse's reaction ironic?

4. Why is Susanna worried at the end of the chapter?

She took up a scalpel and slit the monkey's abdomen, making a slow and gentle cut, keeping the blade well away from her gloved fingers. the spleen was puffed up and tough, leathery, like a globe of smoked salami. she did not see any bloody lesions inside this monkey. she had expected that the monkey's interior would be a lake of blood, but no, this monkey looked all right, it had not bled into itself. if the animal had died of ebola, this was not a clear case. she opened up the intestine. there was no blood inside it. the gut looked okay. then she examined the stomach. there she found a ring of bleeding spots at the junction between the stomach and the small intestine. this could be a sign of ebola, but it was not a clear sign. it could also be a sign of simian fever, not ebola. therefore, she could not confirm the presence of ebola virus in this animal based on a visual inspection of the internal organs during necropsy.