Ricky, Timmy’s younger brother, is described by Evelyn as “difficult” citing he is rebellious and she is unable to control his behavior (Walsh, 2013, p. 34). Evelyn adds Ricky has ceased from accompanying her to visit Timmy at Pinecrest. Kathy Scott and Dana Bruer were both employed by Hospice of Springville; Kathy is a social worker with a Master Degree in Theology and Social Work and Dana is the pediatric team nurse with many years of experience with hospice. Kathy met with Evelyn in private to gain background to determine the reasons that Evelyn wanted Timmy moved to Hospice of Springville. During the initial with Evelyn, Hospice of Springville, and Pinecrest Intermediate Care Facility, the meeting was headed by Sister Anne, the nurse responsible nurse for overseeing Timmy’s care. Evelyn Brampton become increasingly upset as the meeting progresses after she expressed to Sister Anne, “I don’t want Timmy’s infections treated with antibiotics. Given his condition, treating him with antibiotics is an extraordinary measure, that’s only prolonging his life” (Walsh, 2013, p. 38). After Sister Anne failed to answer Evelyn’s questions directly, the meeting ended Kathy was still unsure of as to whether or not to accept Timmy as a patient of Hospice of…
In Rudyard Kipling's fiction story, "Rikki-tikki-tavi", the theme of tikki tikki tavi is demonstrated through Rikki's actions during his many conflicts within the story.…
In “Rikki-tikki-tavi,” Rikki and the humans struggle to keep the snakes out. Rikki-tikki-tavi decides to kill them. Rikki-tikki wants to keep Nag out of the garden and bungalow because he is trying to kill the humans that saved Rikki's life. Rikki-tikki-tavi had a near death experience and the humans of a garden and bungalow found him. Teddy, the son, thought he was dead but his father picked him up and took him home anyway.…
Bravery is what helped Rikki the most “Rikki-Tikki had sprung, jumped on the snake’s back, dropped his head far between his forelegs,…
The author recounts how his parents were pro-life and didn’t agree with abortion. Even though his parents were pro-life he believed they should have had the option to abort if they felt it was necessary. Mr. Buie talked about his brother Jon who had downed syndrome. He states that Jon would spend all day screaming, rocking and banging his head. His mother spent all day trying to feed him. According to the author Jon’s disability cause his parents great emotional distress causing them both to have nervous breakdowns. As a result of this Jon was placed in a facility where he lived until the age of 52 when he passed away from heart failure.…
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" could be considered a coming-of-age story because Rikki grows and changes by solves a problem, undertakes a mission, and accomplishing a goal. The problem that Rikki-tikki solves is keeping Nag and Nagaina from killing his family. The mission he undertook was killing Nag and Nagaina to protect his family. The goal he accomplished was keeping his family safe. Evidence that he has grown at the end is found in paragraphs 15, 17, 25, 35, 36, 56, 57, 61, and 104. Paragraph 15 says, "He spent all that day roaming over the house." In this way he acts like a baby and wanders around the house. Paragraph 17 says, "He sat on all their laps one after the other..." Young children and babies sit on people's laps so he is young. Paragraph 25…
Miles Roby and Janine have a daughter named Tick. Miles relies on Tick for support, but she is also an independent person; different from many other students in her grade: “When Mr. Meyer asked Tick if she could live with these provisos, she wondered, as she so often did, at the strange world adults seemed to inhabit” (Russo 74). Janine is consistently envious over her ex-husband's and daughter’s close…
Louie Zamperini, the main character, experiences countless dangerous situations, which he always works his way out of, with the practice of his encounters in childhood. By learning from his past dealings, Zamperini becomes very resourceful and knows how to deal with what he goes through. Even though a young boy, Louie is not innocent. Throughout his childhood, he does things that leave people screaming or calling the police. He does not care about what people think about him, but rather what he thinks of himself and his actions. Louie does not have friends as a child and no one to socialize with his age other than his siblings. Therefore, he fills this void by stealing and intruding and enraging others. All Zamperini wants to do is something,…
Later in the story we find out about Grandmother Snake and the Alligator King and they become very important in the end of the story. But Grandmother Snake is filled with loneliness and hatred from her daughter leaving her and from the jar she is stuck in. The Alligator King also has a rivalry between himself and Gar Face.…
The story of Andrew and Tommy relates to parental love, friendship, and destruction. The story gives details about Andrew’s experience living with someone suffering from Down's syndrome. In this story, Ellen Klages shows that horror does not have to be ray guns or spaceships.…
The main character had a terrible relationship with his father. They didn’t see eye to eye at all. The father just took him to baseball games and left him there with an usher that he paid to watch him. The absence of a father figure was significant to his childhood. When he grew up he tried to be anything but that memory. He was involved in his children’s lives. This would be a family theme where the parent separates themselves from the child, so they could attend to their own matters in life. The next theme can be seen in the family that has the young girl being feed information like a sponge ruining her childhood so she could get ahead intellectually. The parents did not see her as a child but as some sort of machine. It is not the proper way to raise a child. She was socially awkward and didn’t have the social skills to socialize with the other children at Kevin’s birthday party. This theme is where the parents treat the child as an object rather than a living being. The next one is in the single mom with the two kids. She struggles to support for her family and her children disrespect her all the time. The son was so distant from her and left all the time, while the daughter was in love with a troubled boy. The son was having problems with himself since she went through puberty and he didn’t have a father figure to explain all the changes in his body and while he was feeling certain things. Todd became that father figure when he married the boy’s sister and got to explain what was happening through experience. This helped out the single mother trying to support her two children. The youngest son and brother of Gil the main character displayed the same type of parenting as the grandfather did with Gil, abandoning his child and dumping him with whoever would take care of him.…
Rikki is very loyal to Teddy and his family because they let him live in their home. Rikki feels the need to protect this family with his life in order to repay them for their generosity. When Rikki overheard that Nag, one of the cobras, was going to try and kill his new family, Rikki immediately became determined to keep Teddy's family safe at all costs. He knew that he must eliminate all of the snakes, especially the two cobras, Nag and Nagaina, and their eggs, in order to keep his new family safe. Although some animals can be trained to be loyal to their human families, it is unusual for an animal, like Rikki who has never been trained, to be loyal to his family. These examples show Rikki's heroic quality of loyalty, which is also a human…
Rick Bragg had a complicated and hard life. If he wanted something in life he had to work for it or just go without because his family was not wealthy at all. Rick tells about how his mother would starve herself just to make sure him and his brothers wouldn’t go without. Like many of the families during this time Rick Bragg didn’t have a lot of luxurious things like we do now. He would get treated differently at school by the teachers because they didn’t think he would ever graduate high school and become a successful man that he did. Rick Bragg’s journey in his career helps him to cope with the hardships, humiliations, and struggles of his childhood.…
The first and most influential thing her teaches Jennings is that there are no friends in the homes, because it hurts to much when they leave. Jennings didn't believe in this rule at first and convinced Mark and to be his friend, so you can imagine it hurt when he had to leave. Finally he taught Jennings a lesson about what it means to real lose someone, while people Jennings cared about were in and out of his life all the time in the book, Mark died. It hurt Jennings so bad because he loved him, Mark dying made Jennings not want to tell anyone he loved them because of how scared he was for that to happen…
Not every boy has the same luck like Mark Salzman. Many of them try to fight against obstacles, and many of them lose their hope when they fight against obstacles because they still lived at Juvenile Hall. For instance, Francisco is another boy at Juvenile Hall. He used to be a very bad boy, so the staffs that worked in the prison always said that he was a big troublemaker. However, he felt sorry about what he did to his mother. In order to pay for the Attorney's fee, his mother borrowed a lot of money from the others. Not only did she borrow the money, but she also sold out all her stuffs. This made Francisco feel guilty when he faced his mother. He wanted to carry her in his arms and cry. However, he said he would never do like that because he had to pretend that he was stronger that he had been before. He made sure that he won’t ever make his mother worry again. Therefore, he didn’t want to send his letter to his mother even though the whole writing class inspired him to send…