On 2/21/17, anonymous reporting party (RP) reported that resident Roma McAffe (DOB and age unknown) did not have her Percocent for 3 days. RP did not have the exact date of the incident. RP stated that the med techs are not allowed to write in the MAR that a resident's medication is not available. The med techs are to write that the resident refused the medication. Resident in room 127 was out of a medication, Senna. It was documented that the resident refused it because he did not have constipation. RP stated that "The leaders of the pack, Greg and Jerry" are instructing them to write refused because the facility was cited and they do not want to be cited again. RP expresses that they cannot document "falsehood" and at the same time, they…
Losing a loved one is difficult, but questioning if they are really or not alive takes a toll on one’s daily life. In Heaven’s Keep, Jo’s plane disappears without a trace and no one can seem to find it until people start digging deeper into the story. Her husband Cork, son Stephen, and family friend Palmer set out to find what really happened on that plane and where Jo really went. Visualizing Aurora, Minnesota, evaluating where the airplane went, and questioning how Jo died is simple because the author used great detail in the book Heaven’s Keep.…
What if the Crimean War had gone on for longer than the three years it really had. What if time travel was possible and people were able to visit themselves and give warnings. What if it were possible to enter our novels and change the story. In real life, these are impossible, in Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair, these things occur everyday. The setting? England, 1985, in the midst of the Crimean War, where Shakespeare is fought over and England itself is a police state. All these affect deeply, how this novel influences the reader.…
In Marilynne Robinson’s Lila, Robinson tells the story of a preacher’s wife in Gilead, Iowa. Lila was born into the world an orphan. In a benevolent act of kidnapping, Doll, a migrant worker, saves Lila from her home of neglect. Together they lead a rootless, nomadic life as “a cow and her calf.” At the mercy of the elements, taking work where they could find it, Lila and Doll belonged nowhere and to nobody except for each other. Life had been neither kind nor fair to either of them, but they found peace in one another, and shared a bond so deep that it did not matter when they did not know the words for their emotions. The world was as beautiful, tangible, and true, as it was harsh, rugged, and dangerous. Good people were forced into bad situations,…
At some point or another, we all lose our innocence. In the story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, there is an excellent example of this. In the last line of this story, Alice walker states “and the summer was over.” This quote means that the little girl in the story has lost her innocence, or “the summer.”…
William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” carries a theme represented by a dying breed of that era, while using symbolism to represent tragedy, loneliness and some form of pride, the story also shows how far one will go to have the approval of others and the pursuit of happiness.…
Emptiness is the feeling you get at 2 A.M when you look at your old Facebook photos, smiling at the old photos of yourself, and realize the people who made you smile, laugh, and giggle are no longer around. You look at these photos as a journey down memory lane but in reality deep down somewhere, you wish you could experience these moments just once more. There’s nothing wrong with having a glance at the past but substituting the past for the present and yearning for it is dangerous. The past has a captivating effect that makes us fall in love it because it helps ignite a sense of happiness and comfortability. You can see the idea of never wanting to let go of the past go in “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner. “A Rose…
Arising out of the ashes the phoenix came back to life again. In Greek mythology the phoenix is the symbol for idealism and hope. It falls only to arise and live again. The main character of Eudora Welty's short story, "A Worn Path", is much like this phoenix. She must overcome much adversity on her life path. Eudora Welty in "A Worn Path" uses the idea of the phoenix to characterize and symbolize the indomitable spirit of the main character, Phoenix Jackson, who though old, weak, and forgetful can conquer obstacles put in her way as she heads toward her goal.…
A part of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theory is shown through one of Joyce Carol Oates’ characters. The psyche is made up of three parts: the id, ego, and superego. The id is the primitive and impulsive component of the human psyche. The ego and superego help us make smarter decisions because if we only made decisions based on the id everything would get chaotic. The id is also known as the pleasure principle, and reality does not affect it. This component of our personality is fantasy oriented and irrational. Joyce Carol Oates places Arnold in her short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Arnold Friend represents the id in Connie’s personality. Everything Connie wishes about her life is exactly what Arnold represents. Arnold sets Connie free and gives her the things she has…
Maria Doria Russell wrote The Sparrow in such a stunningly clear but complex way that the reader will want to keep reading the book. She presents the timeline of the story through presenting two story-lines. The first of which begins in the future where we are presented with the last survivor of a space-mission gone wrong with a sickly man, in such a devastated state of sickness and unbearable wounds which hooks the reader into wanting to find out what exactly happened to him- as does the rest of the world in the book. Then the follow-up of the backstory of this Jesuit Priest who is a wizard with grasping language and how he got to end up on a space voyage. It is through these alternating shifts between the future and the past there is a build-up…
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer who has published over forty novels. Most of her novels are graphic and many of them depict death. In her short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Oates tells the story of Connie, a fifteen year old girl. Like in many of her previous novels Connie dies, or the reader is led to believe she does. Oates was inspired by Bob Dylan’s song “ It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”, Charles Schmid, and from the book of Judges chapter 19 verse 17 in the Bible.…
In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, the major external almost most of the story. At the beginning, the narrator introduces Connie’s family, her mother, her father and her sister June. He describes a little bit of the relationship between Connie and his family and as I comprehend as I read the story, Connie has bad relationship with her family. Arnold Friend and his friend are characters that initiate the main conflict of the story.…
By unfolding the story through secondary sources, Emily Bronte creates curiosity in the reader’s mind, causing them to wonder as to the events which occurred before Lockwood’s arrival at Thrushcross Grange. Lockwood’s narrative causes readers to enter the story when the majority of events have already taken place.…
The story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol, is a story told in a third person perspective, regarding Connie, a 15-year-old. She and her mother have not at all gotten along. Her mother consistently compares her with her sister, and her father barely ever speaks with his daughters. One night, Connie and her best friend go to a shopping plaza. As instantly the adult is out of sight they cross the highway into a drive-in restaurant and stay on the restaurant's counter. Thereafter a boy name Eddie starts talks with Connie, inviting her to go eat. Connie leaves her best friend and goes with Eddie to his car. On their way, she notices a guy staring at her. The guy looks and mouth something to her, but she glanced off and keeps…
“Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye opener”-Unknown. The story, “Miles City Montana” by Alice Munro, shows how a couple can fall out of love after knowing each other for a long period of time. “Carried Away” by Alice Munro on the other hand was a story of how you can fall in love with someone that you do not know at all. What the two stories have in common is a strong relationship between memory and imagination. Both stories are about information that is hidden deep within the main character’s memories and what they choose to reveal and repeal. In the stories “Miles City Montana” and “Carried Away”…