Not only are there tragic effects on the person‚ but it affects those around them‚ specifically their loved ones. The novel that I have chosen that focuses on this topic is Still Alice by Lisa Genova. This novel portrays the life of a successful and intelligent women who is now facing a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Still Alice opens reader’s eyes by presenting the brutal realities of the disease and its affects. For this reason‚ the novel is recommended for 15 year olds and older and has a lexile
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Still Alice‚ October 15‚2012‚ #14159336 Life is a precious gift. It is not about the gifts we are given in our lives‚ but how we use those gifts. Do we take for granted our lives and just how precious they are or does it take a tragedy to really find out? Still Alice is a moving novel describing the inevitable downward spiral Alzheimer’s disease causes and how we must appreciate all we have because at any age‚ our lives could change drastically. It is unimaginable how Alzheimer’s
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ALICE Alice is a seven-and-a-half-year-old little girl living in an upper-middle-class family in Victorian England. She is a very imaginative little girl who goes on a surprising adventure into the looking glass world. This journey is the biggest example of her active and vivid imagination which we later come to know is only a dream. But‚ inspite of being only seven years old‚ we see some characteristics in her which are very unusual for a girl as small as her. Her relationship with her pet kittens
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might associate with the elderly. In the book Still Alice by Lisa Genova‚ that’s what Alice thought‚ until she was diagnosed at age 50. It is hard to imagine all the books fell into abeyance‚ but in the event it does‚ I would save this book. Why would I save this book in particular? I feel that the empowering values possessed by Alice are not only important for people with Alzheimer’s disease‚ but for anyone who is feeling hopeless. In this book‚ Alice tried‚ to her best ability‚ to stay positive
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Still Alice is a story about a girl whose name is Alice Howland who is happily married with three kids. Alice is a well known psychologist at Harvard School. Everything was going for her until she got the shocking news that she has alzheimer’s. It all started with her not remembering a simple word in her presentation at a conference in stanford that she was invited to in front of a huge crowd. She brushed it off thinking it must be a symptom of menopause. Deep down she is truly worried though.
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“Everyday Use” is a short story by Alice Walker that tells the story of a mother and two sisters who are finally together after being apart for a long time. Walker describes two characters who were both born and raised together‚ but they go separate ways and therefore manifest a different understanding of heritage. One of the sisters‚ Dee‚ is described as a very selfish and materialistic woman who allows other people’s opinions and her “understanding” affect her views on heritage. On the contrary
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The Color Purple By Alice Walker The intensively descriptive novel‚ The Color Purple is about Celie‚ a poor uneducated woman born in the early 1900’s‚ unselfishly surviving the social injustices of those times. As the novel unfolds‚ Celie experiences so much sorrow‚ that she is forced to grow up quickly and learn to appreciate the little that life has to offer her. As new people enter her life‚ she is encouraged to look at life differently and she discovers that she too can have a chance to
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Go Ask Alice Have you ever had a problem? I’m sure you have because everybody sometime in there life does. The book I read Go Ask Alice by an anonymous author is all about problems‚ conflicts‚ and how to deal with them. I would give a lot of information on the author if that was possible‚ but the author is anonymous so I can not do so. From the very first page I had a hunch that this book was about a drug addiction problem. "SUGAR & SPICE & EVERYTHING NICE; ACID & SMACK & NO WAY BACK" (page
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Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker is an African American writer and civil rights activist. She was born in Eatonton‚ Georgia in 1944. Alice Walker is the eighth and youngest child of her parents‚ Minnie Grant and Willie Walker. Her parents were sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye she became a shy and withdrawn child. Walker ended up being the valedictorian of her high school. She attended Spelman College‚ in Atlanta‚ a school for black women. Alice transferred to
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experiences in the form of letters to God and her sister Nettie. Set in the early 1900’s of the deep South‚ Alice Walker details the inspiring redemptions that embody the power‚ for black women especially‚ to be heard and respected during a time period where racial and gender discrimination were at its peak. Cause and effect‚ dialogue‚ and characterization support the underlying theme that Alice Walker conveys throughout the entirety of her work. The theme is that you have the right to live a happier
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