“All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men”, (William Penn a preacher, minister, and missionary in the late seventeenth century). In The Absolutely True diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexies shows us how alcohol abuse affects Junior's life, how painful it is to deal with the effect, and how it leads to violence and death of the ones he loves. Alcoholism is a disease that affects millions of people and it isn't different for Indians as we see in every other page of this novel. To understand why alcoholism is a disease, it's important to look up it's effects.
Such short sentences are also hollow – devoid of emotion. When Anna states that “Maggie…was gone before midnight” it is said in such a matter of fact way that readers can easily detect that so much horror has already been suffered that Maggie is just another statistic. * “’This is from a child who was too small to do it for herself’ he said, and he placed a big fist in my father’s face, knocking him flat with one blow. But I have no Sam now.” (131) This quote is a sharp contrast to the short syntax above, full of emotion and loss. Anna details how Sam was the only one who was physically capable of dealing Joss some of his own medicine, which emphasises Anna’s loss, but also how she has continued to survive, despite losing Sam, Jamie and Tom.
Angela’s Ashes shows the reader how an addiction can wreak havoc on a family, especially when that family has little to begin with. Frank tells this story of hardships due to his father’s alcoholism and how his family was able to survive in the twentieth century in both The United States of America and in Ireland. Malachy’s drinking problem really hindered the McCourt’s potential to succeed and should never have been there at all. Addiction is one of the worst things that can happen to a
The Great Depression of 1930 took on many different faces. To many Americans, it proved to be an intense time of uncertainty, which reeked emotional and physical havoc in many lives. The unbearable circumstances these families faced were like none other in our nation’s history. Desperation, fear and, even death, became an ever present trouble in many American lives. Millions of people lost their jobs during these tragic times, and left their homes in pursuit of securing work, but most fell short.
His face looks as gloomy as the night, cheerless and bleak. Starkfield makes him look as if he has nothing else to live for. Even after the smash-up, Ethan’s life is no different: “There was one day, about a week after the accident, when they all thought Mattie couldn’t live. Well, I say it’s a pity she did …. if she’d ha’ died, Ethan might ha’ lived; and the way they are now, I don’t see’s there’s much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard; ’cept that down there they’re all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues.” (Wharton 157) Ethan’s life is actually worse after the smash-up than before.
Others said it was to relieve the tension, and others said it was to ward off a dawn raid. Whatever the reason the first hour of the soldier's day became known, as "The morning hate." It was ear deafening! Today a cloud as dark as death covered all of no man’s land and the body’s laying across the long deserted death ridden field was unrecognisable many soldiers have been put through so much pain maybe not physically but mentally I think of all the family’s whose sons, dads, or husbands have died and I count myself lucky to be writing this diary now! Every day of war is one to forget but you would think you could escape the extreme depression during the night when you’re
Yet these truths are no solace against the kind of alienation that comes of being ever the suspect, a fearsome entity with whom pedestrians avoid making eye contact. It is not altogether clear to me how I reached the ripe old age of twenty-two without being conscious of the lethality nighttime pedestrians attributed to me. Perhaps it was because in Chester, Pennsylvania, the small, angry industrial town where I came of age in the 1960’s, I was scarcely noticeable against the backdrop of gang warfare, street knifings, and murders. I grew up one of the good boys, had perhaps a half-dozen fist fights. In retrospect, my shyness of combat has clear sources.
The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells the horrifying story of the Holocaust through Wiesels eyes. In 1944 Elie and his family were taken from their home Auschwitz. Night is the terrifying story of his memories of the death his family, the loss of his innocence and faith in God. Based on what I read in Night, things of value will always change. The valuable things that Elie cherished in the life before the Holocaust were very different, than those after and during his time in the camps.
Patrick Young Per. 5 Mr. Ruiz 29 November 2012 Introduction i. hook – at the end of the book the stranger Meursault said “ As if that blind rage Had washed me clean Rid me of hope For the first time in that Night alive With signs and stars I open myself To the gentle indifference Of the world.” ii. Background- I see myself as a different person from the rest of the world. I’m not so much as an outcast but I am neurotic. The things that interest me are things that no one really pays attention to.
Of Mice and Men Essay Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is one of the best novellas I have ever read. It is about two men named George and Lennie who traveled from job to job and ran away from trouble. Lennie was a disabled man who was always getting into trouble. Well, Lennie did something tragic at the end of the story and something tragic happened to him. Most people felt sorry for him.