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    In the book Catcher in the Rye the main character Holden Caulfield is being compared to another character in The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan. They both live similar lifes‚ but they live them in different ways. Holden seems to be an anti-social person and doesnt have that many good friends where as Daisy is very social and has alot of friends. Holden is a 17 year old high school student who cant seem to stay in one high school. He either fails out of his prep schools or drops out. He doesnt do that

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    notorious for their impatience with growing up and entering the real world‚ their obsessive interest with their social status and finally‚ their infamous personality of constantly giving adults and other forms of authority the cold shoulder. In The Catcher in the Rye‚ the main character Holden Caulfield has some of these teenage qualities highlighted to an exaggerated point‚ while possessing many atypical teenager traits at the same time. For instance‚ Holden doesn’t want to face the world. While most

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    GirlInterrupted” – Effects Mental Institutions Have on People Susanna Kaysen states that “[m]ental illness seems to be a communication problem between [two interpreters in your mind]” (pg 139). In Kaysen’s GirlInterrupted‚ Kaysen is put in a mental facility at the age of 18 for a borderline personality disorder. The author is torn throughout the book if mental institutions are helping her and her fellow patients or bringing them down more. Also‚ the author argues that being put in a facility

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    passionate friendships and experimentation.” (468) Applying this concept to GirlInterrupted unveils that psychosocial moratorium is essential to finding his or hers’ identity. In Michel Foucault’s “Panopticon‚” discipline further shows what is vital in finding his or hers’ true identity. Through psychosocial moratorium and discipline is where someone will find his or hers’ identity. In two specific scenes from GirlInterrupted does it exemplify where someone is helped with finding their identity

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    GirlInterrupted The name of the movie that I watched was called “GirlInterrupted.” There are a lot of important characters in the movie but the main character is 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen. The actress that plays Susanna in the movie is Winona Ryder. Susanna decided to admit herself into McLean Hospital‚ in Belmont‚ Massachusetts‚ after attempting suicide by overdosing on pills. Susanna plans on staying at mental hospital for only a couple weeks‚ but ended up staying there a couple years.

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    The movie Girl interrupted is an interesting movie that delves into the psychology of multiple young girls in an in-house psychiatric facility. The two main characters in the movie are Susanna‚ played by Wynona Rider‚ and Lisa‚ played by Angelina Jolie. The movie is about the lives of the different girls who are in the in-patient facility and their particular disorders. The movie shows the patients going to where the files on each of them are kept and finding out what the psychiatrists had been writing

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    GirlInterrupted: Borderline Personality Disorder GirlInterrupted is a thought-provoking film that accounts the struggles of a teenage girl‚ Susanna‚ who is trying to come-to-terms with her illness in the 1960s. She is committed to a mental hospital when she tried to commit suicide. The film portrays her relationships with her distant parents and intense relationships with other patients while she is hospitalized. She encounters many troubled

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    The movie ‘Girl Interrupted’ is a story of a nineteen year old girl (Suzanna) in the 1960’s who‚ after being suspected of trying to commit suicide‚ gets sent away to the Mental Institution (Claymoore) for a short ‘resting period.’ Her psychiatrist had suggested to her that the affair with one of her parents’ friends‚ along with her misconception that chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka is anything other than a suicide attempt‚ could be signs that she may be suffering from ‘borderline

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    In GirlInterrupted author Susanna Kaysen recounts her two year stay at a Boston psychiatric hospital and her experience of what she calls the "parallel universe" of madness‚ she makes the reader consider how thin the line is between ’madness’ and ’sanity’. Susanna describes herself as "sane in an insane world". It does seem like it may be an insane world when we look at how society reacts to something they do not understand‚ fear breeds prejudice‚ "possessed by the devil" "bad‚ and must be isolated

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    Girl interrupted is about of girl named Suzanna who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in the 1960s. She is committed to a mental hospital where she becomes friends with a sociopath and is roommates with a pathological liar. The main focus of this paper will be the symptoms‚ diagnosis‚ and treatment that Suzanna goes through in the movie. Borderline personality disorder is characterized by intense shifts in mood lasting only a few hours at a time. This is often accompanied

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