User blog:Bittermedicine/Structure, Tone & Voice

Structure The memoirs structure is created in an easy to read structure. It is divided into an Introduction, eight parts and an epilogue. The eight parts are broken down as follows: 1. Information about Ben his illness and his death(the first brother diagnosed with schizophrenia and later kills himself) and a background of the Martini family history. 2. Details of Olivier's first couple of hallucinations and how the family deals with it. 3. Descriptions of Liv's experience in the hospital and the relapse he has. 4. Liv and Clem establishing communication through writing letters, made them reconnect and Clem was able to better understand Liv's illness. 5. The sudden death of Clem and Liv's father and another relapse of Liv's illness. Clem and Liv also explain circles of mental health hell as they call it. 6. Explanation of how the government has failed the mental health sector. 7. Liv gets diabetes and rushed to the hospital. 8. How the government should be helping those with mental illness.

On majority of the pages there are illustrations done by Olivier, which are hand drawn, black and white drawings.
===  Drawing to the right is taken from the memoir. ===

-Anna Garcia Ambler