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Overview

A teenager's attempt to maintain psychological integrity-the maladaptive coping mechanisms she uses as a way to stay alive and her path to recovery. You say it's up to me to do the talking. You lean forward, place a box of tissues in front of me and your black leather chair groans, like a living thing. Like the cow it used to be before somebody killed it and turned it into a chair in a shrink's office in a loony bin. Fifteen-year old Callie is so withdrawn that she's not speaking to anyone -including her therapist at the "residential treatment facility" where her parents and doctor send her after discovering that she cuts herself. Her story unfolds primarily through dramatic monologues, gradually revealing the family
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A teenager's attempt to maintain psychological integrity-the maladaptive coping mechanisms she uses as a way to stay alive and her path to recovery. You say it's up to me to do the talking. You lean forward, place a box of tissues in front of me and your black leather chair groans, like a living thing. Like the cow it used to be before somebody killed it and turned it into a chair in a shrink's office in a loony bin. Fifteen-year old Callie is so withdrawn that she's not speaking to anyone -including her therapist at the "residential treatment facility" where her parents and doctor send her after discovering that she cuts herself. Her story unfolds primarily through dramatic monologues, gradually revealing the family turmoil that led to her self-destructive behavior. Her little brother, Sam, is ill -he nearly died in her care. Since Sam's illness, Callie's mother has become so worried and fragile, she rarely leaves the house; she sees danger everywhere. Her father has responded to the psychological and financial stress of Sam's illness by disappearing into his work, and when that doesn't work, into his drinking. None of this is clear at first, though, especially not to Callie. Only after a cutting incident that scares her, does Callie begin talking -to her therapist and the other girls at Sea Pines. Cut alternates between scenes of life inside the institution with its strange rules and characters and a series of exchanges between Callie and her therapist in which she addresses the therapist only as "you." Callie's efforts to understand herself and her family illuminate her process of recovery honestly and with hope. Cut provides an insightful look at the psychology of cutting -a form of self-abuse an estimated 2 million teenage girls inflict on themselves.

While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.

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In this adaptation of McCormick's debut novel, Lewis (TV's Ellen) imbues her reading with the cynicism and pain of the book's troubled 15-year-old protagonist, Callie. Callie faces some difficult emotional hurdles as a "guest" at the residential treatment center where she has been sent because she cuts herself with sharp objects. In a flat, unaffected tone, befitting someone unhappy with her situation, Lewis's Callie explains the daily routines and schedules at Sea Pines, the facility dubbed "Sick Minds" by Callie's roommate. Though she doesn't speak to her fellow guests, or even her doctors at first, listeners are always privy to Callie's feelings and her impressions of her surroundings, be it what the anorexic guests don't eat or how the substance abuse guests cope. Details of her stressful, dysfunctional home life trickle out along the way; it's at these points that Lewis's vulnerable voice invites listeners to feel compassion for Callie. As Callie makes breakthroughs with her therapists and comes to better understand her behavior and its causes, Lewis meets the challenge of tearful scenes. Lewis never sounds phony, though, and conveys the hope in McCormick's ending, which suggests Callie's eventual recovery. Ages 12-up. (Sept.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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This first novel combines pathos with insight as it describes adolescent girls being hospitalized for a variety of psychiatric disorders: "The place is called a residential treatment facility. It is not called a loony bin," states Callie, the narrator, with characteristic grit. Callie does not speak aloud for most of the story, but directs her silent commentary chiefly to her therapist. Through this internalized dialogue, readers become aware of Callie's practice of cutting herself and, more gradually, how her cutting is a response to the dynamics of her damaged family. Similarly, the other girls' problems--anorexia, overeating, substance abuse--come to seem (both to themselves and to readers) like attempts to fight off parental or societal obliviousness to their needs: "It's like we're invisible," says a girl during a climactic scene. While running the risk of simplifying the healing process, this novel, like Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak, sympathetically and authentically renders the difficulties of giving voice to a very real sense of harm and powerlessness. Refusing to sensationalize her subject matter, McCormick steers past the confines of the problem-novel genre with her persuasive view of the teenage experience. Ages 12-up. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780439324595
  • Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 2/28/2002
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 160
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Lexile: 660L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.04 (w) x 7.26 (h) x 0.39 (d)

Meet the Author

Patricia McCormick, a finalist for the National Book Award, is the acclaimed author of CUT, MY BROTHER'S KEEPER, SOLD, and PURPLE HEART. Her debut novel, CUT, was an ALA Quick Pick for YA Readers, an ALA Best Book for Teenagers, and a NYPL Book for the Teen Age. She lives in New York City.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 30, 2008

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    FOR CUTTERS

    Patricia McCormick has taken three years to write this short book, and I took five nights reading this book and I must say that this book was an excellent title. Sadly, many teenagers are living with depression and cutting themself, but thankfully there are many solutions to heal the pain. This book could be one of those solutions. With every page is a girl someone could relate to, but you could learn from her.
    Callie cuts herself, and now she's at Sea Pines or what she calls "Sick Minds" refusing to talk. Instead, she listens to people in her surroundings who are just like her. They are hurt, and they don't want to be trapped. They know why they are here, but they'll have to learn how to fix that.
    I recommend this, WELL WRITTEN, book for teenagers, cutters, children, mothers, and teachers. Learn from Callie and enjoy this book like I did. Take heed, people, there is help.

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  • Posted December 11, 2008

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    A Disappointment....

    Entertaining read, but a little generic. Ms. McCormick doesn't really get into the details/emotions/rationales/etc for being a cutter. It's an interesting story about a girl in a group home/hospital coming to terms with her problems but not really an in depth view into her mindset.

    8 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 8, 2009

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    Very interesting

    Patricia McCormick wrote a very interesting novel on a girl who cuts herself. Callie, a young adult, blames herself for her families problems. Her brother Sam had really bad asthma, which makes her mother worried and always busy. Her dad has to work more so he can get more money to pay for everything. Callie lives at Sea Pines, or as the girls there call it "Sick Minds" rehabilatation center. At first Callie doesn't talk and doesn't care about cutting herself, but over time Callie starts talking to other people and another girl who cuts herself comes and tries to keep her down, but with the help of the other girls their and her pyschologist, Callie finally realizes that the problems at home are not her fault and finally wants to get better. Callie becomes closer to her dad and the rest of her family. Patricia's book was an easy which I would recommend because it shows the true meaning of family and how you shouldn't be so hard on yourself about problems.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 7, 2009

    This book can cause harm.

    My 13 year old daughter read this book before I knew she had it. She got the idea that she could ease her pain from everyday teeenagerhood by cutting herself. Thank you so much Patricia for the theapy bills.

    2 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 17, 2008

    Well, its Cut, now isn't it?

    This novel let's people who not only have experienced this sort of thing, but gives insight and help to people who know someone who's doing this to themselves. Cut is a definite read.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 5, 2004

    Major Disappointment

    it just kept going on and on. I kept waiting for it to get interesting but it just never got off the ground. As a former long-time cutter, i was seriously disappointed.p

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 6, 2004

    BEWARE- Children are impressionable!

    It is a great story into the mental issuses and struugles this young girl goes through but A young impressionable girl like my own (5th grader) got this book in her school library (her friends were all talking about it). So my daughter decided it would be cool to try!!! SHE CUT HERSELF! I am not just blamming the book. I am taking this very seriously. However, I do not think this is appropriate reading material for children under 15!!!

    2 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 9, 2009

    Cut

    Callie seems like a normal fifteen year old, but she is hiding a dark secret: her addiction to self-injury. A substitute nurse sees the scars from where Callie cut herself and Callie is sent to a residential treatment facility called Sea Pines. At Sea Pines, or "Sick Minds" as the "guests" have nicknamed it, there are girls with food disorders and drug addictions, but no one, until Amanda comes, self-injures like Callie. Callie has selective mutism and refuses to talk at all. Callie can only stay silent for so long.
    I have read this book multiple times. The first time I read it, I looked at Callie from her therapist's point of view. The next few times I read the book looking from Callie's point of view. She is very easy to relate to. The writing didn't seem as though it was coming from a fifteen year old though.In conclusion, Cut is about a teenage girl overcoming the addictive trials that is self-injury. I highly recommend this book.Cut is a great book, but the writing could have been more accurate to a fifteen year old's thoughts.

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  • Posted March 25, 2009

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    Cut

    McCormick, P. (2000). Cut. New York: Push.

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    While ya gotta respect McCormick for repeatedly exploring some of the toughest issues for young adult girls out there, I feel like Cut doesn't focus on cutting enough to warrant it making the title. Sure the narrator is put in a facility because she is a cutter, but her group mates who are there for an assortment of reasons interested me just as much, when I could keep straight who each one was. (Students may need to chart each character and track their characteristics. For reals, it's so easy to get these girls confused!)

    McCormick does a wonderful job of constructing Callie's character, although I did expect her to have experienced more trauma than what was described in the book.

    In this short book, there is a small commentary about the perception of cutter's by most people and the medical community. McCormick confronts that general assumptions and misunderstandings by presenting multiple people and a second girl who cuts herself for different reasons.

    Despite my extensive consideration of cutting here, the majority of the book is more focused on the aspects of life that are haunting Callie and her journey to deciding to get better.

    My favorite part is that the entire book is written in second-person direct addresses to the reader, as though he or she is the psychiatrist working with Callie.



    Activities to do with the book:

    This book is good for starting discussions on issues of cutting, bulimia, anorexia, insanity, drug addiction, familial pressures, ways of dealing with problems, dealing with stress over a sick relative, expressions of emotions, etc.

    Also, the ending is fairly ambiguous, so students could write letters to the characters asking how they are doing or they could write their own continuations.

    Students could also write a letter as Callie's psychiatrist as a response to the book. Or they could construct the character of "you" based on the few clues present in the text.



    Favorite Quotes:

    "You say it's up to me to do the talking" (p. 1).

    "The people at Sick Minds were still trying to figure out what to do with me" (p. 11).

    "There's a lot of crying here at night. Since there are no doors on any of the rooms, the crying-or moaning, or sobbing-floats out into the hallway. Sometimes I lie in bed imagining a river of sobs flowing by, leaving little puddles of misery on each threshold" (p. 27).

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  • Posted March 20, 2009

    Marissa- Review for Cut

    Callie is fifteen. Her life is becoming a whirl wind of stress and the only escape, the only relief is to cut. When Callie is taken away to a treatment facility she joins other girls with all types of problems. Her therapist tries to help Callie. There's just one problem; Callie doesn't talk. But when new problems arise in the facility; with others and herself then Callie speaks. She can't be silent forever.
    This author doesn't use many literary devices but here are some that stood out:

    Personification- The room is dead quiet .

    Simile- You lean forward, place a box of tissues in front of me, and your black leather chair groans like a living thing.

    Simile- "This new girl, Amanda, she wears shorts and flip-flops like it's the middle of summer."

    My favorite part of the book is when Callie finally speaks for the first time. It's as if there's a small glimmer of hope arising in her that maybe she can get help. At first she doesn't even know this is what's happening but later on she realizes that she really is worth the saving; that with the others to help her she really can stop cutting and live her life the way she wants to. What Callie does doesn't make her a bad person, and when she finally understands that, that's when her true story begins.
    The worst part of the book is when she runs away from the facility. For the first time you truly believe that she wants the help; that she's getting better. But then, just like that, she's dashing down the hallways, through the laundry room, and out the door to the outside. She just keeps running until she reaches the road side and calls her father. I almost got disappointed; not in the book but in Callie. I felt like she was giving up; like she had made the wrong choice to getting better. Her dad meets her at a Dunkin' Donuts, and for a while they just talk. I truly believed that she would just leave Sea Pines (the facility) and go home. She couldn't have possibly gotten the help if she didn't go back. But it took her to leave to realize what she really wanted; help.

    I would most definitely recommend this book. This book isn't just about a facility full of stubborn girls with problems. It's about the people finding themselves and realizing that not only do they need help, but they have people there who want to help. They are not worthless like they always thought. You will feel the things the characters feel; sadness, hate, confusion, unloved, worthless, a waste of time. But most importantly, you come to understand that they are people, too. This is one of the rare books that make one want to change. To be more selfless and to help others help themselves. This book is a journey for not only Callie, but the reader.

    1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 24, 2008

    Never in my life.

    This book was slow and boring;
    page after page I turned to find nothing
    more intresting than a girl going to a therapist
    talking about her brother who had ashtma,
    its nothing I expected.
    I regret reading it, a waste of time it was.
    I could summarize it in one sentence,
    " a girl goes to a mental hospital after cutting, she never talks
    she opens up runs away and goes back. "
    END OF STOPRY.
    Super Dissapointing.

    1 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 29, 2008

    ~Cut~

    I loved this book, i used to cut, and well. i noe somewhat f what Callie is going through.I couldn't have asked for a better reading book.The ending was amazing, and im so proud of Callie for doing what she does. if you haven't read this book,u need to move it up to ur #1 spot.! i loved this book.!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 9, 2008

    Age

    Overall, this book was okay. I am sixteen years old. I think that it has a good message. And I am proud of the main character, Callie. However, I think I would like the book better if I was younger. It just all depends on how old your are.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 18, 2008

    re-read.

    this book was great when i was in the seventh grade. i re-read it this year as a ninth grader and i'm not impressed. so when considering this book take into consideration your age, interests, and own personal experiences.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 19, 2008

    ugh.

    this was the worst book i've ever read. in my opinion, it makes cutting a joke, because the main character has no big reason for cutting. it's stupid and just fuels the emo attention seeking, and ignores the deep feelings of those who actually feel the need to cut.

    1 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 24, 2008

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    Cut is an awsome book that identifies the true feelings that may go through a girls mind that cuts herself. Callie is a troubled teenaged girl that keeps to herself when she has to go to Sea Pines. When she cuts herself she explains how it releases all anger, pain, and other emotions bodled inside of her. It releases them in a way she almost can't explain. It is a wonderful book and I recomend it to anyone that wants to read a book with a great deal of understanding what a teenaged girl really goes through.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 15, 2008

    Cut

    Cut goes through the point of view story of Callie in her stay at Sea Pines but to her its 'sick minds.' She's sent there after being discovered that she cuts herself. While there she doesn't say a word but starts to slowly come out of her shell, gets to know the other girls and confronts her troubles including her father. What I liked was the writing style and how Callie begun talking again and the ending was great and give you a hint that she really wants to stop cutting. Read this at least once and decide whether you think its a good book or not but yes it is a sad thing when it comes to certain hard to talk about issues.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 19, 2008

    Okay

    this book would probobly be okay for other people, but personally it didnt keep my intrest I tried to keep reading it but it just didnt click. buy at your own risk.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 26, 2008

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    While I got this book a while back due to interest, I was disappointed. In fact, I was annoyed almost entirely the whole book. Although the plot is good and the fact that the book is in Callie's point of view, it still didn't fully grasp me.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 2, 2008

    not so good

    im sorry if i sound mean when i say this but this was not good. i cant think of anything else to say other than that it is a really slow read.

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