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The book Blackout is different from other books about recovering alcoholics. This book is not just for people who are recovering from alcoholism it is also for people who know alcoholics. Sarah explains how alcohol was her way for dealing with life’s problems. This caused her to grow up without actually learning how to deal with problems on her own. She views alcohol as a crutch that prevented her from dealing with emotional and spiritual issues. When a person reads Blackout they are able to get an idea into what it was like to live life in such a way. This book is also unique because it looks at alcoholism from the perspective of a woman. Sarah explains how society views women alcoholics different from men alcoholics. There are many things that an alcoholic woman has to deal with that an alcoholic man does not have to deal with including rape. Many of these issues have not been explored and Sarah is one of the first people to bring it to the attention of the public. Sarah makes sure that she is accountable and responsible for everything that happened in her life and she does not blame her situation on anyone else.
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Blackout - Summary Station
Summary and Analysis of Sarah Hepola’s
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
By Summary Station
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Printed in the United States of America
First Printing, 2015
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Analysis
Introduction
The author uses the introduction of this book to give the reader some background into her life. She gives the reader a general idea of how she interpreted her drinking years. Drinking alcohol consumed the majority of the authors 20s and 30s. The main reason that she drank is because it made life more adventurous. She drank heavily almost every day even though she had common blackouts.
The author was born in Texas, but she moved to New York at the age of 31. Her social life revolved around alcohol. The author believes that changes in American culture allowed women to drink without being judged the way that they were in past years or decades. In the past men used to drink more than women but by the year 2000, women drank about the same as men.
Sarah believed that when she drank, she became more powerful. She defines herself as a feminist and believes that it is her right to do what she wants with her life with no apology. In the back of her mind she knew that there were some negative consequences involved with her drinking. The part of her drinking that worried her the most was the blackouts that she often experienced. She would have to talk to the people that she was with during her blackouts and have them tell her what had happened afterwards. She believed that blackouts were a normal part of drinking so this was her excuse.
Sarah gives her readers an explanation of blackouts so that they can understand what she was experiencing. When the blood alcohol level