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    The document provides an overview and discussion questions about the memoir "Tell Me I'm Here" by Anne Deveson. It describes how the book tells the true story of Deveson's struggle to help her son Jonathan who developed schizophrenia at age 17. Over the following torturous seven years until his death, she fought to help him survive while experiencing the emotional strain of his psychotic state. The text also examines how Deveson presents her argument through Jonathan's occasional awareness of his illness and the danger he poses, as shown through his statements to his mother.

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    The document provides an overview and discussion questions about the memoir "Tell Me I'm Here" by Anne Deveson. It describes how the book tells the true story of Deveson's struggle to help her son Jonathan who developed schizophrenia at age 17. Over the following torturous seven years until his death, she fought to help him survive while experiencing the emotional strain of his psychotic state. The text also examines how Deveson presents her argument through Jonathan's occasional awareness of his illness and the danger he poses, as shown through his statements to his mother.

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    The document provides an overview and discussion questions about the memoir "Tell Me I'm Here" by Anne Deveson. It describes how the book tells the true story of Deveson's struggle to help her son Jonathan who developed schizophrenia at age 17. Over the following torturous seven years until his death, she fought to help him survive while experiencing the emotional strain of his psychotic state. The text also examines how Deveson presents her argument through Jonathan's occasional awareness of his illness and the danger he poses, as shown through his statements to his mother.

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    Tell Me I'm Here

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    The document provides an overview and discussion questions about the memoir "Tell Me I'm Here" by Anne Deveson. It describes how the book tells the true story of Deveson's struggle to help her son Jonathan who developed schizophrenia at age 17. Over the following torturous seven years until his death, she fought to help him survive while experiencing the emotional strain of his psychotic state. The text also examines how Deveson presents her argument through Jonathan's occasional awareness of his illness and the danger he poses, as shown through his statements to his mother.

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    Tell Me I’m Here

    Group Questions
    1. Tell me I’m Here by Anne Deveson tells the true story of her own family’s struggle
    when her son, Jonathan, develops schizophrenia at the age of seventeen. The book is
    about Deveson’s fight to help her son survive the torturous seven years that
    followed her son’s diagnosis that culminated in his death. Manouvering through
    Jonathan’s life, the audience gets to experience, through Deveson’s eyes, the
    emotional strain associated with having a phsycotic family member living secluded in
    his own surreal reality. Throughout the text, the reader sees Jonathan demonstrate
    that he is, at least at times, aware of his illness and the danger he poses to those
    around him. Statements such as “Please Mummy, give me a certificate of sanity. I
    want a certificate of sanity.” or conversations with his mother like “Jonathan broke
    the silence by tugging at my arm. ‘If I had a baby, I’d cry.’
    ‘Why darling?’
    ‘Because a baby is such a beautiful thing. I wouldn’t want to hurt it.’” These help to
    present Deveson’s argument or contention to the reader.

    8. The text is an account of real actions. It is an expository text because the content of
    the novel is all true, though some details were changed for privacy reasons. The
    narrative part comes from the way in which Anne deveson chooses to write. She
    writes to capture an audience in the way that a fiction writer would, but the story is
    a re-telling of true events.
    Most of the evidence to support this comes from prolouge. It gives the reader
    insight into the facts behind the story. Deveson tells the reader of how she came to
    write the book and the people for whom she wrote it. The prolouge helps the reader
    to understand that this is a non fictional text when Deveson writes “In the beginning
    I had intented to write a book about schizophrenia. After Jonathan’s death I wanted
    to write a more personal book... the story would begin at a time when Jonathan is
    seventeen years old. It was 1978”
    The elements of narrative come from the structure of Deveson’s writing.
    “April 1979. We had just moved to South Australia, and the I was in the kitchen one
    Sunday night in early autumn. The church bells had just rung and I was making
    soup”. Anne captures an audience by using the same narrative structure as a
    fictional text.
    In this way, the reader understands that while they are reading mostly for
    entertainment purposes that the content of the story is all based on fact.

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