Rosemary's Baby (p. 3-65)

Summary
Rosemary's Baby: scary, thrilling, and bound to give you goose bumps. Through the first few page of the book we get to meet Guy, Rosemary, Hutch, Minnie, Roman, Terry, and a few other characters. Guy in inspiring actor who's still waiting for the big role that will move them to Hollywood, but until then he's working on his career with the little roles he has and rosemary is always there to support them. Rosemary and Guy had been trying to find an apartment in the most beautiful building ever, the BRAMFORD, only there were no more space. So they were put on the waiting list. Just as they found another ( not as beautiful and big but good enough for them) house, they got the call they were waiting for. They got the house! Even though the apartment belonged to an old lady that had died, they took it. Now Hutch, a long time friend of there's, is trying to keep them from moving into the apartment by telling them horrible stories that suppossibly happened at the Bram. He told them the story of the Trench sisters, two sisters who ate little children, including their niece. He also told them about Adrian Marcato, who practice witchcraft, and since people had believed him, he got mobbed and attacked, and almost killed in the lobby. The stories obviously gave Rosemary the chills, but Guy quickly dismissed them by telling her that Hutch was just trying to scare them. Once they finally moved in, Rosemary kept herself busy by decorating the house and making sure everything is in order, and Guy was away working on getting roles. Rosemary was always going about her day, unphased at all by what Hutch said until she had to go down to the basement, the most scariest part of the building. Hutch had once told her that someone killed a baby and left it at the corner of the basement. But she quickly found a laundry mate named Terry. Terry was staying with Minnie and Roman, who basically adopted her, she was going through some stuff times and they saved her and gave her a home, something nobody had ever done before. She and Rosemary quickly hit it off and Rosemary brought her upstairs to meet Guy. Unfortunately, Terry was hurting inside my something that nobody can know, that perfect smile that she put off for all to see fooled everyone, except for herself. That brought destruction. Terry jumped out the window one day when Rosemary and Guy went out. When they were returning back they got startled by the police cars and the many people outside. Once they came closer they saw that it was Terry. That's how they met Minnie and Roman, who couldn't believe that Terry would kill herself. Nobody can come to understand why she killed herself, she seemed happy, and Minnie took it harder than anyone else. As Rosemary and Guy were getting ready for bed, Rosemary was thinking whether or not she was going to tell Hutch about the incident but Guy convinced her not to. The next Monday Minni knocked on their door to introduce herself, and from that day on Rosemary couldn't get rid of her. They went to dinner at their place and ended the night arguing about when they should have babies, and again Rosemary had lost the battle.



Quote
"And even knowing what was in the note, Guy pointed out, they might still not know the full answer, for part of it had probably been beyond Terry's own understanding. Something had led her to drugs and something had led her to death; what that something was, it was too late now for anyone to know" ( Levin 41).

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Once Rosemary and Guy went up to their apartment, they started talking about what might of led Terry to end her life so soon. Guy pointed out that what ever it was nobody will ever understanding and that part of it was even hard for Terry to understand. I think this quote is powerful in so many different levels. Sometimes we do do things that we can't understand, and what ever that is if we can't come to understand it, how will we answer to other's when they ask why? I like that fact that Rosemary points out that whatever had led her to drugs, led her to death because it's almost as it the same dark force is at work in both cases. I thought that the first couple of chapters were a good introduction to the story. Many books just tell you the name of the characters and that's it. A few actually tell you about their lives and how they live, and their everyday routine. The most traumatic thing that happened this early in the book was Terry's dead. I wasn't expecting that someone was going to die this soon. It made me think that even though some people paint a perfect smile on their face, we don't really know what their really feeling or thinking. That's why we can't always assume or make judgements before we get to know someone, no matter how perfect they look on the outside, they might be burning up inside and we wouldn't know. I find it really important to always ask people how their really feeling.