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Greek Mythology-
Koren realizes that house parties are just a quick easy way to senior boys to make freshmen pay for alcohol the only way they can get it and pay their rent. After five months of highschoo, "Falling into a buzz is like falling into smoething staunch and comfortable, like a favorite armchair" (138). Koren decides she wants to join a Sorority, yet she is dissapointed that they are not allowed to drink at all during 'rush'. "Our parties are moe like job interviews" (140) After explaining out redicious all the girls are when deciding which girls they belong with she states, "I am not about it". (142) She visits the Zeta Alpha Sigma, an obvious choice for they are called the "Zeta Alcoholics, the fun loving, fast-living, antisorority girls" (142) She gets accepted. During one part of iniation, she is hazed by being forced to drink. Although it is only two Michelobs, she explains why some girls would even want to be hazed by being forced to drink. "Being hazed, however, is one of the few times you can actually admit you are powerless while you caot your insides with light beer" (151). Although the way she worded it didnt sound like it was a good thing, you could tell she meant that it was. Maya, her friend at the sorority is also her big sister. "I will drink to incapacitate myself, and then let sister or friends decide things for me." (154)

You'r Really Pretty When I'm Drunk-
"When i drink, I aim to exceed a state of being just drunk, and enter instead into a state of conciousness that is more like annihilation of brain waves." (157)

Koren's relationship with alcohol is becoming something she loves more and more, but its very clear that it will hurt her in the end. Its not just something to do now, its a way of life. In her new Sorority, there seems to be plenty of entertaining, theme parties; all centered around alcohol or other riciculous acts. The biggest party is Zeta's semesterly formal, she inves a boy named Milton, who she has to share a hotel room with- "I don't really like Milton, but i don't dislike him, which is the standard by which i measure the boys with whom I drink" (161) Almost all Koren's decisions seem to depend alcohol. Hannah and her get adjoinging rooms on the ground floor, and they all spend their time drinking; because they are in Canada they can drink legally.
"I am still drunk, but i cannot be JUST drunk. Just drunk will not rid my head of its worries. Just drunk will not swat away my misgivings about Milton, anxieties that are whirring around me when I'm alone with him...I need a bottle of something sweet and potent to perk me back up to a state of past gone." ( 164) Alcohol is not only a way of life now, its a necessity. It is something that needs to be there for Koren to function correctly in social situtations. It is what she needs to forget about lifes little problems. Koren continues to get wasted, goes to the dance with Milton, and afterwards Milton expect something that he is not going to get from Koren. She is almost too drunk to say anything, and finally is concious enough to swat him away; he gets the point.

Later she meets a boy named Chris. Chris is portrayed as the prime reason why it will be hard for her to stop drinking; "Drunk, I take bigger chances, and therefore reap bigger rewards" (177). She also later explains chris to be almost as rewarding as straight vodka, because when she is with him she forgets about life's little problems. It is not to the point where Koren realizes she cannot express herself the way she wants to without being drunk.


pg 162- I once hear someone use copacetic as a slang term.
Guess: good, at ease
Definition: Fine, excellent, going just right, swell

pg 167- Perry finds a piano in a hallway and thumps out a labored rendition.
Guess: attempt
Definition: a performance of a musical composition

pg 172- His stare tears through me like a cleaver.
Guess: some sort of weapon.
Defintion: a butcher's knife having a large square blad

pg 173 - The dining-hall cook flips hamburgers on a hibachi.
Guess: grill
Definition: Small, portable charcoal grill

pg 182- We can at least beseech safety.
Guess: expect or require
Definition: ask for or request earnestly