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Summary of the story
28 Days
As the story opens, her life is either wild and crazy or confused and sad, depending on where you stand.
She parties all night with her boyfriend Jasper. After the clubs, the drinks, the designer drugs, they
commence what may turn out to be sex, if they can stay awake long enough. Then a candle starts a fire,
which they extinguish with champagne. What a ball.

In the morning, Gwen's day begins with a pass at the refrigerator so smooth and practiced she hardly
seems to even open it while extracting a cold beer. Gwen is an accident waiting to happen--to herself or
innocent bystanders. Her victim is her sister Lily. "Gwen, you make it impossible to love you," Lily says
when she arrives late at the church for Lily's wedding. At the reception, Gwen delivers an insulting toast,
knocks over the cake while dancing, steals a limousine to go buy another cake and crashes it into a
house. Not a good day.

Cut to Serenity Glen, where Gwen has been sentenced to 28 days of rehab in lieu of jail time. The PA
system makes a running commentary out of mashstyle announcements. The patients do a lot of peppy
group singing. "I don't have a health problem," Gwen protests. "I play Ultimate Frisbee twice a week."
The patients include the usual cuckoo's nest of colorful characters, although they're a little more
plausible than in most inmate populations. We meet Daniel, a doctor who pumped his own stomach to
control his drinking and wound up giving himself an emergency tracheotomy. Gerhardt, prissy and
critical, a dancer and coke addict. And Andrea, Gwen's teenage roommate. Gwen's counselor is Cornell,
who inspires a grin when we see him in a movie because he's usually good for strange scenes and
dialogue. Not this time; he plays the role straight, revealing toughness and a certain weary experience,
as if all of Gwen's cherished kookiness is for him a very, very old joke. There's a nice scene where she
says exactly the wrong things to him before discovering he's her counselor.

Another fellow patient is Eddie Boone a baseball pitcher with a substance abuse problem. Of course
they begin a tentative, unstated courtship. Jasper, on weekend visits, misunderstands Of course there is
a fight. This subplot is predictable, but made perceptive because Gwen and Eddie illustrate the lifeboat
mentality in which sailors on the ship of rehab have only each other to cling to.

REACTION

The movie shows that everything have you exert in life are have a reason. You didn't do anything like
drinking of alcohol if there is no eeason behind of that. The movie shows that Ms. Gwen drinking alcohol
because of her mother died when she is in a young age. Everytime that she with her boyfriend they
drink alcohol and it cause to havingbsex with her boyfriend. That is very hard thing to survive like when
you are alcohol addicted person. That effect of alcohol show on the movie like Gwen almost sabotage
the wedding of her sister and she took a car and she hit the house because she is drunk. Every drunk
considers himself a special case, unique, an exception to the rules. Odd, since for the practicing
alcoholic, daily life is mostly unchanging, an attempt to negotiate daily responsibilities while drinking
enough but not too much. When this attempt fails, as it often does, it results in events that the drunk
thinks make him colorful. True variety comes only with sobriety. Plus, now he can remember it. This is
the lesson learned by Gwen Cummings, the character played by Sandra Bullock in "28 Days."

2. Why do people start drinking?

Answer: Those people start to drinking because of socialization, sometimes curiousity is one of the
reason for those people specially the teen ager to drink alcohol. In the movie I think Gwen start drinking
alcohol because of her mother died when she is young and also the influence of her boyfriend it is
obviously shows in the movie that one of the influencer of vices is her boyfriend. In real life it possible
happens. Sometimes people start to drinking alcohol because of stress they believed that alcohol is a
thing that help them to temporary forget those problema specially when you are drunk too much of
alcohol.

3. Aside from what has been discussed.What were the other effects of alcohol to human body (Positive
and Negative)

Answer: Other positive effect of alcohol to our human body is when someone is drunk alcohol gives self
confidence to the person himself/herself, When someone is drunk it can help to sleep well specially
those person that having a hard time to sleep. For negative effect of drinking alcohol, here is the
example of negative effect of alcohol to our body; When the alcohol contains foreign chemicals that can
result to death of the person who drunk that particular alcohol like the essue of lambanog in laguna that
resulting on the death of the drinker. Other negative effect of alcohol is when we arw drunk we didn't
makea good decision to ourself and our body become heater that normal that resulting to commit a
crime like a rape. Other negative effect is when we are drunk we can't move our body like a normal
sonetimes it can cause accident example is driving a vihicle when you drunk.