The death of her father -who died of brain cancer- influenced her to write her first novel titled, Hard Laughter, in 1980 (Flanagan). Since then, Anne Lamott has written more works of nonfiction and novels including, Rosie, Joe Jones, Blue Shoe, All New People, Crooked Little Heart, and Imperfect Birds (Anne Lamott). The theme in all her novels deal with loss, particularly the loss of loved ones and loss of personal control and her works include topics of alcoholism, spirituality, motherhood and religion. (Anne Lamott). From the topics Lamott has written, I imply that she writes what most of us don’t think about and of reality.
When Emin was in her later years of college she would often discontinue her paintings and destroy them. She described this period of time as her "emotional suicide". It was following her first abortion. These destroyed paintings were featured in My Major Retrospective. In Emin's Turner Prize exhibit she displayed some watercolor paintings, known as the Berlin Watercolor Series.
Speak by Laurie Anderson, is the type of book that makes you really think about the choices you will have in your life. It is about friendship, and how art is the only way you can really express yourself. Speak has all the parts for a successful “teen” drama. It has suspense that makes your eyes want to fly across the page, back and forth until you know what, why, and how the book turns out in the end. I have read almost one third of the book and I now know a lot about Melinda life and why she so isolated and insecure.
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story about a woman who is suffering from what is modernly known as post partrum depression. This story however takes place in the early 1900’s. After a little research, I found out that this short story is actually an exaggerated remake of the author’s own personal experiences. In 1887, shortly after the birth of her daughter, Gilman began to suffer from serious depression and fatigue. She was referred to Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell who was leading specialist in women’s nervous disorders in the nineteenth century.
In Gilman. Paragraph 4) She followed his recommendation for three months and found herself to be on the verge of a major nervous breakdown. Afterwards she set out to write “The Yellow Wallpaper” to show what it is like to be slowly slipping into madness as a result of the resting cure being prescribed at the time. She sent a copy of the story to her physician but never heard back from him, although she did find that upon reading it he changed his methods of prescription of nervous illnesses. (Gilman.
172- she starts questioning her religion and why God can be so cruel at times. E. Pg. 408- decided to start speaking since her mother went mute. F. Pg. 440- Now a student in medical school, she's trying to compensate for her disability by undergoing many experiments.
Estranged from her real parents, her moving into our home and experiencing true family love I thought would be my dream come true, but it turned out to be my worse night-mare. For years, I searched for the reasons as to why my friend seemed to victimize me in my own home and from reading Christian author Sandra D. Wilson’s book, I now ponder was it because hurt people, hurt people. Dr. Wilson (2001) expresses in her book that all individuals have experience some type of hurt weather minute or significant. She connotes that deeply scarred and injured individuals, deeply scar and injure others. Dr. Wilson believes that it is a self-protective defense -behavioral mechanism that one who is injured develops.
1) Andrea Yates killed her children because she was suffering from depression. 2) Design an experiment. The Difference Between name brand clothing and none name brands. 3) Each member will have the chance to be included into either group which may be able to help with the experiment. 4) I believe the behavior of this mother was the cognitive theory, because she was struggling with depression at the time.
In this villanelle, Plath has used three poetic techniques including personification, symbols and opposites. Sylvia Plath has mainly used depression and suicide as a theme throughout the poem probably because she has had past experiences and wanted readers to feel what she has gone through. Sylvia Plath has used personification quite a number of times. In the first line of the second stanza, she describes ‘ The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,’ and in the following line, she writes, ‘And arbitrary darkness gallops in:’. They are used to describe how quickly the stars are leaving her without thinking twice and all that is left is darkness and sadness.
Her “journals,” in other words her autobiographical narratives such as Killing Chickens, “Shunned” and “Without a map” all reveal specific different bitter portions of her life that she has faced and overcame and reassures readers like me, that we can too. Ha Hall writes about overcoming many daunting situations, the earliest hardship that she writes about encountering is getting pregnant at sixteen. In “Shunned” Hall shares her experience of receiving rejection from everywhere she turned including school, church and even family when she accidentally got pregnant. A reader can see how unfairly she was punished how nobody should be treated that way. Hall uses emotional appeal to show how much it hurt her for example.