Owen’s choice of words suggests how drained and weary the soldiers have become. In summary, the physical state of the soldiers is cleverly conveyed by Owen’s technique, experience, and his selective choice of words. The mental state reflects the tragic effect war has on the soldiers. “Drunk with fatigue.” This metaphor tells us that the soldiers were not in the right state of mind and that they did not have the competence to make fatal decisions. Owen then goes on to describe how the mental trauma becomes worse.
Morrie is telling Mitch that “It's funny...I felt a little ashamed, because our culture tells us we should be ashamed if we can't wipe our own behind. But then I figured, Forget what the culture says.” (116) Morrie realizes that he needs help and he isn't ashamed of it. Throughout Morrie's life he has been himself. He never cared about what other people thought or what the culture said. He had a very happy life with that.
He is highly educated and teaches at a university. He is described as a fine, lean, pale man who has always had an apologetic, shy smile and speaks very politely as well as eloquent. But when the father has to confront the other boy’s father, he does not know how to express himself, because he is not used to the same communication as the other boy’s father. Therefore the father is not only physically weakened but also mentally incapable because of his lack of adaptability. He is not aware of the fact that reasonable arguments do not affect the other boy’s father but only provokes him furthermore.
Peter shows how he hates work, so the key to his happiness is just not going. Although he Peter was all for his own happiness, Milton began to think in a similar further into the film. This caused the two characters to butt heads. Milton told Peter he would not turn down his radio volume, basically just because it made him happy. A line from Self Reliance by Emerson tells that “their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid, as being vulnerable themselves.” Milton’s lack of timidity helped him gain his personal happiness therefore exemplifying transcendentalism.
He writes that “voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn” which indicates that laughter of children saddens him as he isn’t capable of laughing, because of the war. The idea of Owen constantly thinking about the effects of the war is portrayed where it is written “sleep mothered them from him.” This shows that the laughing and innocence of children has been taken away from many younger soldiers including him, which keeps playing on his mind. The second stanza begins with Owen reminiscing about the pre-war period where the “town used to swing so gay,” meaning that everything was joyful and everyone was content before the war broke out. It is also indicated where Owen writes, “In the old times.” This idea of the war changing everything is shown where it is mentioned that men “threw away their knees” suggesting that
If I had to identify with a particular form of oppression it would be ableism. Ableism is “a set of practices and beliefs that assign inferior value (worth) to people who have developmental, emotional, physical or psychiatric disabilities” (Maggie, 2014). As I had mentioned earlier, I suffer from bouts of debilitating depression that render me unable to function for a period of time. Unfortunately, my boyfriend is just one of many who have dismissed my depression as laziness because they just don’t understand depression. They assume that I should be just as able-bodied as them since they can’t “see” my disability and use oppressive words like lazy and ‘no good for nothing’ which only leads to further denigration of an already awful feeling.
The baby almost drowns because of this. His hallucinations has gone to an extreme to where he begins to come close to harming others. Activity #2: "A Beautiful Mind" - Historic and Authentic Anosognosia is symptom that keeps someone from getting help or away from treatment. This affected Nash because he was in deep denial about being schizophrenic and coming into face with reality. Even after John later gets treatment, he is drawn away from his medication in hopes or achieving normality, though his situation only got worse.
“The Lottery”. I was very interested in the Shirley Jackson’s short story named “The Lottery” due to its controversial thematic. The author makes a heavy criticism of old traditions blind followed that sometimes people do just because they were told to, by their ancestors. Since the story was presented and, even more, after watching the film about it, I kept thinking regarding the reasons for doing things in life. As I’ve always been a rebel, I was captivated by this story, and in certain way I felt identified with the author because she presents the whole situation as if it was anything normal and quotidian when it is really a deep drama.
Walter is very imaginative. He seems to be completely detached while imagining all sorts of scenarios. These stories are so detailed and well thought out that when someones calls him back to reality, Walter seems to be emerging from a deep dark sleep. For instance, Walter’s wife yells at him to pay attention and he replies with an astonished, “hmm?”. Walter seems to be unsatisfied with his seemingly boring life where the most exciting task of his day is getting overshoes.
A man with his own personality and poetically philosophy of life, a man she never had thought would be communicating on a website for the middle classes. He used to be a person, different from his surroundings; an intelligent person, with such a high intelligence, that no one could form or affect him, he had formed him self. He used to be the person everyone had adored, he was him self, and nothing else. His expectations of life was independent of others attitudes towards life, as educations, jobs and family life, everything was irrelevant for him, it was unoriginal and uninspiring. He lived in his own poetic world, dreaming for a life style as a poet in Ireland.