Life Rules

Audrey stays back and Jin-Ae and Owen take off to find Frank but first find a gun Frank has been hiding in the car.  Owen puts the gun to his head but changes his mind.  It ends up the gun didn’t have bullets in it.  Frank eventually shows u drunk and has Owen drive from there.  The next stop is Ernest Hemingway’s grave in Sun Valley, Idaho.  Frank chose this spot.  The four of them start getting cranky and agitated with each other but Audrey and Owen seem to be forming a bond.  Jin-Ae puts together a list of top ten suicide legends like Romeo and Juliet, Marilyn Monroe, and Judas who hangs himself.  Throughout the story they cut in with the chat room dialogue between the four before they meet up to take the road trip and it’s almost like they’re trying to convince each other to be suicidal.  For example, Frank says “Listen Jin-Ae, for real.  It would take some work and maybe some luck, but we could to it.”  Jin-Ae and Frank also share with each other that they’ve tried to call the suicide hotline but hang up before the call is answered.  If you’re dialing the suicide hotline, that would indicate to me that you’re trying to get help and not so sure you want to go through with it.  On their way to Seattle, WA, where Kurt Cobain died (it was Audrey’s pick), they create a list of stupid ways to commit suicide.  The few ideas from the list are licking an electric socket, pretend to have a gun and shoot at a police officer, and smother yourself with dry-cleaning bags.  Audrey and Owen are getting more cozy with each other with kissing and more.  At some point along the trip Owen points a revolver at his father’s headstone.  He gets hit from the bullet or rock splinter and it smashes the side of his head.  Blood gushes everywhere and Frank, Jin-Ae and Audrey are freaked out and start screaming out “don’t you die on us!”   That’s when they decide the suicide pact was stupid and they make a new pact swearing off killing themselves.  They end by listing the top ten reasons to live.  A few are, stars in the sky, mud fights, and moms.