"People find dead bodies in the city and don't even give them a second glance" (page 125)
I find it crazy that what is normal for you can be strange for someone else and vise Versa. In psychology, we learned that when your vision is focused on something you will not notice the change so easily, but if something interrupts your field of view, the change will be more obvious. This applies to the quote because Faye says that the people in her city are used to seeing dead people lying around. However, in the context of this quote, Faye is in a much nicer city and she says that the people there would definitely notice if there was a body on the ground. This is crazy to me because, if I am used to eating dinner every day at 7pm, some people might find that weird because they eat dinner at 5pm or something like that. The aspect of people thinking dead bodies on the ground is normal might sound crazy, but this book takes place in a city that is filled with drug addicts, so it's really not as crazy as it seems.
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