The doctor sits on a chair with a sheet of paper and pen in hand while Callie sits on the Freudian Couch and. The entirety of this novel is written in second person, with Callie narrating to her psychiatrist, who she is required to see for Individual Therapy, which is basically set up to follow the traditional format of a Freudian psychotherapy session. Level Threes are guests who are about to graduate and " are the escorts." The nurses are not called nurses, they are called attendants. Level Twos are guests who have accumulated ten points for Appropriate Behavior and are allowed limited privileges. Level Ones are new guests or guests exhibiting Inappropriate Behavior and are not allowed to go anywhere without an escort.
Guests are further sorted by Level based on behavior. Those who have been admitted for treatment of eating disorders are called "guests with food issues." Junkies and alcoholics are "guests with substance issues" and the guests with behavioral issues are "assorted psychos," as Callie herself puts it. The patients are called guests and are sorted according to their issues. The discovery of this particular habit by the school nurse has led to her admission to Sea Pines, an all-female psychiatric hospital that is called a "residential treatment facility" by the staff there. (Sept.Cut is a young adult novel written by Patricia McCormick. Lewis never sounds phony, though, and conveys the hope in McCormick's ending, which suggests Callie's eventual recovery. As Callie makes breakthroughs with her therapists and comes to better understand her behavior and its causes, Lewis meets the challenge of tearful scenes. Details of her stressful, dysfunctional home life trickle out along the way it's at these points that Lewis's vulnerable voice invites listeners to feel compassion for Callie. Though she doesn't speak to her fellow guests, or even her doctors at first, listeners are always privy to Callie's feelings and her impressions of her surroundings, be it what the anorexic guests don't eat or how the substance abuse guests cope. In a flat, unaffected tone, befitting someone unhappy with her situation, Lewis's Callie explains the daily routines and schedules at Sea Pines, the facility dubbed "Sick Minds" by Callie's roommate. Callie faces some difficult emotional hurdles as a "guest" at the residential treatment center where she has been sent because she cuts herself with sharp objects. In this adaptation of McCormick's debut novel, Lewis (TV's Ellen) imbues her reading with the cynicism and pain of the book's troubled 15-year-old protagonist, Callie.
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