The Virgin Suicides Opening Narration

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First two paragraphs of chapter one of The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. A nonchalant take on the horrors of death and suicide, especially of young teenagers.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Teen (13-17)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

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on the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide. It was married this time and sleeping pills like Terese. The two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was and the gas oven and the beam in the basement, from which it was possible to tie a rope. They got out of the M s truck as usual, moving much too slowly. In our opinion, in the fat, one said under his breath. The same TV folks. This is how fast we go. He was carrying the heavy respirator and cardiac unit past the bushes that had grown monstrous over the erupting lawn, tame and immaculate 13 months earlier. When the trouble began, Sicilia, the youngest Onley 13, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a stoic while taking a bath. And when they found her afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her Chung quality that they had stood mesmerized. But then Mrs Lisbon lunged in screaming, and the reality of the room reasserted itself. The blood on the bath mat. Mr. Lisbon's razor sunk in the toilet bowl, marbling the water. The paramedics fetch Sicilia out of the warm water because of Quicken the bleeding and put a tourniquet on her arm. Her what? Hair hung down her back and already her extremities returning blue. She didn't say a word, but when they parted her hands, they found the laminated picture of the Virgin Mary she held against her budding chest.