Upon reading chapter two of “Cutting for Stone”, I remember the feeling of watching every bad sitcom or horror movie. The feeling of shouting at the screen asking the characters what in God’s name are you doing, can’t you think? Although this chapter I became frustrated with the inactivity of the characters, from their perceptive I can understand the factors that rendered them paralyzed. Something changes in a person when calamity strike someone you love, this is seen through the actions of everyone in the hospital.…
Often times, we endure problems within ourselves that can either be solved or left alone to embrace. Whether it is mental or physical, many of us find it natural to undergo inner-conflict. In the two passages, “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “Quicksand,” the authors provide the audience with a theme that connects them both. After uncovering their internal conflict, they eventually decided to unknowingly distract themselves from the issue. This includes the way the authors utilized the setting and characters to convey their theme. When dealing with inner-conflict, the theme is developed by expressing personal past issues, discovering new people, and ultimately uncovering a sudden romance.…
Inner conflict is the number one cause of depression and anxiety that is now found in approximately 3.2 million Canadian youth in today’s society. It is often an internal fight, man against self, one of the hardest battle one will ever have to face. With daily life, choices are always presented, and are made much harder when one is dealing with self conflict themselves. In the short story “ Choices” Susan Kerslake presents us with a young lady, Peggy, who starts of with making simple choices in the beginning of the story and later on bigger decisions that impact her choices from before. Another example of inner conflict is displayed in the poem “ My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning. In this poem the duke struggles with extreme jealousy towards…
After losing her families' stable and horses, her parents' divorce, and a car accident causing her mom's sudden death, Aria Roux struggles to deal with the pain that consumes her. After running out of the hospital room as her mother took her last breath, she struggles to deal with not only losing her...but never being able to say goodbye. Aria pushes her girlfriend and friends away and feels completely alone. She finds that not only has she lost everything important to her..she has lost herself. As she tries to overcome her grief, memories from the past take over, sending her somewhere she thought she knew...inside of her own mind.…
Our understanding of the “good” has expanded beyond the lone-dreamer theory to embrace other activists, like King’s partner in Birmingham, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. Yet the evil segregationist archetype is fixed in the popular mind as the villainous housewife of “The Help” or the cretinous mob of “Django Unchained” — nobody we’d ever know, or certainly ever be.…
Growing pressures and clash can come about and, if the circumstance turns out to be excessively troublesome, The family can be divided. In the novel, Jake is extremely annoyed about the landing of Vicky,his father's new partner, and Stephanie, her little girl. He is happy living with his dad and, at in the first place, sees the ladies as unwelcome intruders throughout his life. This is clear when Jake is so annoyed, he drives the vehicle heedlessly. He crashes the jeep which damages his traveler, Stephanie. This persuades Vicky to take Stephanie away. 1st person story perspective is utilized to pass on Jake's disposition. Jake's outrage is communicated when he considers, “Dad was the one I was angry with, but Stephanie was there in front of me, so she was the one who would suffer.” The style of the language likewise adequately passes on Jake's sentiments. Jake is a young man and the uncomplicated, clear language makes a reasonable voice. The language is formal with some utilization of conversational language which likewise serves to add to the character of Jake. At the point when Jake depicts his driving he says that he "jammed" his foot on the accelerator and "powered over the edge." The reader can comprehend why he is so furious and can, to a degree, sympathize with his trouble in tolerating…
2nd commentary someday, someday, this is the thought that saranell has when her mother decides to neglect her existence or acknowledge her. The thought that is repeated over and over in saranells mind is, is it better for mother to just go and not be around any longer? Why is this life so hard and is there hope for waiting for just the little years that this life has been living? Life can be difficult, it would be a lie if you heard anything other than this. But, through all the pain and all the misery and forceful pending trials there's still hope, nothing will last forever, nor will pain last forever. Keep going and don't ever give for what seems big is nearly smaller than what it appears as, pain has no place in this life and and anything evil will hide and be fearful of just the tender compassion of a loving parents reassurance that a hard life is just simply a bump in the…
Throughout the story a lot of events occurred, the main conflict in the story is the struggle that the narrator and her husband, who is additionally her doctor, over the course and treatment of her illness leads to conflict with in the narrators mind between her growing understanding of her own powerlessness and her desire to repress this awareness. The narrator chooses to keep a secret journal, in which she describes her forced passivity and expresses her displeasure for her bedroom wallpaper, a dislike that gradually develops into an obsession.…
The image as a whole depicts the chaos of an abusive relationship and the effect it has on a family. The collage, along with the poem, can make the reader pray that this kind of mayhem does not bust through their door the way that it busted through Clarke's.…
The Younger family has gone through many difficulties in their lives. Their tiny apartment was once beautiful, but is now worn out and crammed. Lorraine Hansberry uses symbolism to expand the central idea that families endure struggles overtime that will constantly dwell with them.…
The short story is set at a park by a lake. “They were up on a picnic table at that park by the lake, by the edge of the lake, with part of a downed tree in the shallows half hidden by the bank.”1 The downed tree sets the mood to be sad and dark. We also learn that the main characters Lane A. Dean, Jr. and his girlfriend Sheri Fisher are sitting very still on the picnic table2, which tells us that the atmosphere is quite intense. It does not say for how long they sit by the lake, but it says that the right sides of their faces get shaded so it can be assumed that they sit there for a while.3…
The holding cell was a bad place for a person like me. The only things to do was pick my nail beds sore or let my mind catch up to the mess I’ve created. John had been the only thing keeping me sane for some time, and I guess that was my own mistake. Never put all your money on one horse. A time ago he married the pretty smile, songbird singing, and domestic comfort. He didn’t know what he was getting into, but once he was invested, his kind heart didn’t have the guts to take it’s vows back.…
In school, Dean was exceptional, and he was also considered to be a popular student and having played on the baseball and varsity basketball teams, studied drama, and competed in public speaking through the Indiana High School Forensic Association. He was not a kid who was afraid to get engaged and be involved in the school he was attending. His first year of college he was studying pre-law at Santa Monica College. After one…
From a formalist perspective, one of the most important things to note about this short story is how it is composed from the entries in the narrator’s secret journal, which she keeps hidden from her husband. The result of this diary-like construction makes the story seem almost autobiographical even though the narrator is a fictional character. Because of this, everything is relayed in a very personal way and gives an in depth view of the narrator and her feelings. The reader gets very little information about other characters and there is an intense focus on the narrator and the inner workings of her mind as her mental state steadily declines.…
Everyone needs a way to vent what is heavy in their thoughts. The narrator is so confined from using her mind, “But I must say what I feel and think in some way…it’s such a relief!”(Gilman 8). When she gets the chance to write in her secret journal she feels that her mind is being relieved from imprisonment. Already dealing with mental illness the narrator is told to keep her feelings bottled up. Although John believes that his solution is working, he slowly pushes his wife into a more unstable state.…