No matter how Bobby prays and his family supporting him all the way all comes to no avail, he becomes dejected over his experiences in the church. He eventually decides to move out of the family home, hoping that his mother will in time accept him for who he is. Mary is adamant as she pesters her son about the evil of being gay. Ultimately Bobby realizes that he’ll never live up to his mother’s expectations he throws himself to an oncoming traffic taking his own life. Devastated Mary begins a journey of liberating herself, and the society at large.
Crow Lake Journal #2 As Matt is ___, and everything in turns out to be fine, an ___ incident takes place and changes everyone’s life. The narrator of this novel, Kate accidentally finds out that her brother Matt is having an affair with Marie, whose father has killed her brother. By the moment that Kate discovers their relationship, she has already “defined her brother’s live”. She knows that her brother’s bright future will probably be ruined by this relationship, and the upcoming story proves that she was right. Later in the srory, Matt made Marie pregnant.
For Matt and Ruth, this couple have to cope with the loss of their youngest son Frank, who was gunned down in cold blood by Richard Strout, the husband of Frank’s girlfriend Mary Ann. For Matt and Ruth, they suffered on multiple levels. They had to cope and heal from the loss of their beloved son, who had a beautiful future ahead of him, but also experience other injustices such as seeing Richard Strout walking around town, flaunting his freedom, while their son was dead. Matt, in a conversation with his close friend Willis Trottier, remarked, “Every day since he got out. (he was asked how often he thought about Strout since the murder) I didn’t think about bail.
After the adoption secrets from Chris and Kiyen’s past are unveiled and these secrets will either tear their family apart or reunite a father with his long lost son. “Hey honey, I’m talking to you, don’t you dare walk off,” Christian (also known as Chris among friends and family) Richards Sr. said to his wife Trisha Renai Richards. “I don’t want to hear
Sheryl Hoover (Toni Collette) is an overworked mother of two children, who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her brother Frank (Steve Carell) is a homosexual scholar of French author Marcel Proust, temporarily living at home with the family after a suicide attempt. Her husband Richard (Greg Kinnear) is striving to build a career as a motivational speaker and life coach. Dwayne (Paul Dano), Sheryl's son from a previous marriage, is a troubled teenager who has taken a vow of silence until he can accomplish his dream of becoming a test pilot. Richard's foul-mouthed father, Edwin (Alan Arkin), a World War II veteran recently evicted from a retirement home for using and selling heroin, lives with the family; he is close with his seven-year-old granddaughter,
Suspicious and frightened, they discover a former patient of Malcolm's who is deeply upset, screaming at Malcolm because he hadn't been able to help him. Though Malcolm does his best to calm the distraught man down, the man ends up shooting Malcolm in the abdomen, then himself in the head. A year later, Malcolm seeks to redeem himself with the case of nine-year-old Cole Sears, who exhibits the same symptoms of the man he had misdiagnosed. Working hard to get Cole to open up, Malcolm tries to deal with his wife’s cold behavior toward him, and her apparent affair. Once Cole finally does open up to him with the iconic line “I see dead people”, Malcolm feels a crushing sense of defeat and a fear that Cole needs to be institutionalized.
They get into a car accident, putting Paige in a coma. She awakes with no memory of the last few years of her life including her husband, Leo. Leo then tries everything to win back his wife. Sucsy’s The Vow encompasses the same three part structure as Keaton’s The General. The structure is easy to follow.
Charlie’s Aunt Helen was his “favorite person in the whole world.” However, she died after a terrible car accident. Charlie’s dad, who Charlie describes as “a very proud and strong person”, inhibits the attitude of whatever he says goes. Charlie describes his mom as “emotional, but loving.” His brother plays football at Penn State and hardly comes home unless he must. Charlie never gets along with his sister. She dates a boy secretly due to an incident where Charlie saw her boyfriend hit her.
Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman begins with an elder Willy Lowman returning from a failed business trip. His comforting wife, Linda, explains to Willy that he should not need to travel anymore, and expresses to him that she would like to see him work locally. From the start of the play, it is evident that Willy’s mental health is deteriorating, as he had an accident previous to the play and he complained about his state of mind. It is also made clear through several flashback hallucinations that Willy experiences. He and Linda discuss their sons, whom Willy is quite disappointed in, especially Biff.
Then a car accident sends Paige (the female character played by Rachel McAdams) through the windshield ad into a coma, from which she emerges even more adorable than ever but also with amnesia. Apparently she doesn't recognize her husband Leo - played by Channing Tatum nor the times they spent together. Ironically, Paige seems to revert to an earlier version of herself, the time that she hasn't met Leo. She was estranged from her wealthy parents and have a successful businessman as her fiancé. Despite the fact that she can't remember him, her husband still dropped everything and try to gain her back.