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What is the event that gets ester moved from her original hospital into the asylum?
Ester asking to look at her reflection and then breaking the mirror.
Whose pills does Ester try to kill herself with?
When Esther tries to commit suicide with the pills, where does she hide herself?
She crawls in a gap of breezeway in her family's cellar.
In Chapter 13, when is lying in a hopsital bed and hearing her heartbeat, what is the phrase that she describes herself hearing?
(Hint: she says the same two word phrase 3 times)
"I am I am I am" (Plath 158)
Where does Ester go after she messes up the flowers in the maternity ward?
Her father's grave.
What was Esther's first attempt at committing suicide and did it succeed?
Esther first tries to slit her wrists with razors, a technique that she had first heard about from a Roman philosopher. However, she it failed because she felt that her skin was too defenseless.
When Ester arrives at the first hospital, after her pill suicide attempt, a women walks down the hall saying she is going to jump out the window. The nurse taking care of this women explains to Ester why this is impossible. Why couldn't the women jump out of the window?
All the windows in the hospital are barred.
When Ester's brother asks how she feels, Ester looks at her mother, but then responds by saying...
"The same" (Plath 172).
When Esther is on her date with Cal, what question does she asks him that surprisingly pleased him instead of scaring him off?
Esther asks Cal, "If you were going to kill yourself, how would you do it?" (Plath 156)
When Ester is getting into the water she thinks about these which Buddy Willard showed her. She remembers them as going through a stage where they were just like fish. What does Ester think about?
Ester thinks about the babies in the jars that Buddy showed her.
When Ester is being wheeled into the hospital, after her suicide attempt, whose name does the cry for in her head?
Ester cries "Mother!" (Plath 171).
What did Esther try and hang herself with the morning before she went to the beach with Cal?
She tried to hang herself with the silk cord of her mother's yellow bathrobe?
What section of the hospital does Ester get assigned to volunteer at?
The maternity ward
When Esther plans to commit suicide with the pills, what is on the letter that she writes to her mother?
"I am going for a long walk" (Plath 167).
When Esther's attempt to hang herself fails, what is she worried that her family will do?
Esther is worried that her family will forget and lose hope in her if she went to the doctors and was in an asylum.