The “Yellow Wallpaper’’, a story of a woman’s progressive neurosis that leads to hysteria and insanity, written in gothic style, explores the importance of self-expression, work and creativity in maintaining a healthy and balanced psychological outlook. When this is oppressed by gender and medical subordination, the consequences can be tragic. The yellow wallpaper embodies two aspects within the story. Psychological and Sociological. Both being a reason towards the woman’s slow neurotic ride to insanity.
The theme of this story is that when you experience a lost of a love one, you will go through an emotion time in your life. At first you will feel fury, doubt and lost but eventually through time you will learn that the spiritual understanding of death and suffering is about love and acceptance of the inevitable. Going for the Record is a classic novel that provides a convincing sequence of growth and coming of age through a lost loved one. Anyone who has gone through a loss of a loved one will recognize Swanson’s detailed explanations of illness and death. This book teaches people how to accept and learn how to move
On the other hand, the Story of an Hour, starts from the introduction of the background of the time. And "writes down" the story from the accident of Louise's husband. It focuses on the transitional part of the heroine, yet the Joy that Kills tends to be more focusing on the conflict between the couple. Both of the film have some strong points. In my opinion, I would be more interested in the Story of an Hour because it delicately depicts the psychological transition of the heroine.
During his early childhood, Oliver is shown as a love deprived child that is in constant search of his parent’s care and attention. Oliver’s parents are shown to no longer have the capacity to shown love or care and Oliver is the one who is affected by it. In his earliest stage, Oliver is neglected and it leads up to his adolescent years where he is a free running, rambunctious teenager that is not held responsible for his actions and he receives none of the consequences. After Oliver gets past his teenage years he marries Alicia who as “accident-prone”(50) as he is. While is seems to be another mistake, it leads Oliver down the correct path and results in a happy life for both of them.
Narrative Methods: pages 56-62 “You mean that you wish you were dead”, McCarthy continuously develops characters but slowly, creating hesitation in the reader’s minds and preventing judgement of what could be a reflection of himself and his son. Throughout the novel the man commits these selfless acts to his son. Only when an idea that his son admits his longing for death, “I wish I was with my mom”, do we see a more selfish side. McCarthy depicts this when the man tells the boy off, a first within the novel, “You mustn’t say that”, it is also the first time the man sort of says no to the boy. In consideration, self-loathing rules the man’s existence forcing him to be selfless.
Christine Winkler English 9 - Analytical Essay 8 October 2010 Analytical Essay: A Solitary Blue In the book A Solitary Blue, Cynthia Voigt tells a conflicting story of a young boy named Jefferson Greene whose mother, Melody, abandons him to his unexpressive father and forces Jeff to mature in a way that real people can relate to with their own experiences. Initially, Jeff was dependent on his mother for love and protection. Unfortunately, when his mother abandons him with his distant and unemotional father, Jeff becomes closed up inside and does not know how to express his loneliness. Later on, however, Jeff develops an internal strength to move on and also begins to build a healthy relationship with his father. In the face of a sudden, unexpected loss, Jeff Greene gradually learns to be independent as well as socially interact, and ultimately develops in his maturity and intellectual strength.
Individuals all cope with trauma in different ways and allow these scarring events to either be positively embraced or dauntingly consumed. So the main question is…how do we cope with them? In Margaret Atwood’s “Death By Landscape” Atwood displays contradicting ways of dealing with daunting pasts and how they can affect one’s life. The protagonist Lois in Atwood’s “Death By Landscape” copes with her traumatizing past contrastingly. Atwood’s piece distinctly displays how Lois is so deeply affected by Lucy’s demise.
Edna’s life which contains of unhappy marriage, adultery affair, and a force to be mother woman creates a complex character and problem, and somehow a metaphor of life and death contemplates her life in the story. Furthermore, life that is interpreted as a love, friendship, creativity and freedom fights with a death which is interpreted as adultery affair, unsatisfaction life, bond of marriage, a force to be mother woman, and rejection of society. Hereby this essay will also insert the symbols of both life and death concept in Edna Poltellier’s life, the struggle and reason behind the dual concept about life and death in Edna Potellier’s life are either explained. The Awakening serves the idea of life so bold in Edna’s life, not only the physical but also a soul and mind awakening. She has been awakened from her artificial life and all of a falsity she has experienced during her boring marriage.
Donny’s mother lacked self- confidence and cared more about what other people thought about her as a parent. The conflict between mother and her son is ironic. Unfortunately, Cal, Donny’s tutor, failed to support and motivate Donny to do his homework. Cal represents an immature, Peter Pan like kid himself. Tyler even described them in the same manner: long hair, faded jeans, fans of rock music, careless, and young.
A Lesson in Mastering Loss Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” is about loss. In it she mentions many of the small losses in life that we may experience but she is clearly talking about losing a love. Who she is speaking to in this poem is unclear but there is evidence to show that she and she alone is her own audience for this poem. She expresses denial, anger, blame, regret, humor and in the end she exclaims “Write it!”, which looks to be directed from the speaker to herself, either way it can be construed as acceptance. In the poem she goes through increasingly bigger losses that she quickly dismisses in a sarcastic manner until she reaches the loss of her lover.