Cut

A theme of Cut is running. If you run away from your problems nothing will ever be solved, and sometimes the problem will get worse. Callie, in the beginning, is running away from her problem, in denial that she needs help. But then she meets Amanda and she sees inside of herself, and doesn’t like what she is looking at. This is the point where she realizes that she really needs help, when she takes the jagged edge of the aluminum pie plate and cuts her wrist. This cut feels different, somehow wrong, and the pain reaches out to her instead of the sweet relief that she is so accustomed to getting. After that painful night, she begins to change. She starts talking to the girls around her, something she has never done before, and starts talking to the physiatrist. She begins to open up to people around her like a book, just starting to open to the reader. After a short while of cooperating with the establishment that she is currently residing, she begins to gain little freedoms, such as the ability to walk from one place to another without an escort. When she gets this responsibility, she goes to the physiatrist and finds that she is not there that day and doesn’t know what to do with herself. Then she decides to go for a run and just walks out the door and starts to run. When night finally comes, she stops at a payphone and calls her dad. Worried, her father comes and picks her up and takes her back to Silver Pines. When they get back, Callie decides that she wants to get better.