There is no reason a reader should read this poem and not have a better understanding of the mental illness of schizophrenia and how it affects not only the person but the family as a whole. Both the homes and the families are thought of as a place of safety and love, but in this family, due to a terrible disease, love is hard to find. It is a constant uphill struggle to try and love someone when you can’t help them. Often times, when we can’t help someone, we blame ourselves, which only causes more stress and distance. The line, “It was the house that suffered most.” (Line 1), illustrates that, although the person diagnosed with schizophrenia was probably suffering, it was the family, as a whole, that suffered the most.
If their mother was still alive they would not have to hide from their father. Brian on the other hand attributed his experiences to the fact that life was harsh on him and he could not forgive the people in his life that hurt him. This was in the beginning of the movie. An example of this is when he refuses to visit his mother during the weekends and speakes rudely to his mother on the phone. Later on in the movie , after mixing with Rohana and Rohani he forgives his mother and goes to visit her.
“Sandy wasn’t expecting such a comment, and was surprised at the stabbing pain she felt at hearing it.” pg 18 After hearing her mother say this, Sandy feels downcast by her older sister Marianne, and younger brother Lawrence. Sandy is also controlled by the people surrounding her. She is controlled by her father, Frank, by not wanting to put a foot out of line in fear of being punished. She listens and abides by everything that he says, because of the control he has over her and her siblings. “”I want you kids in bed in an hour.” “Yes, Dad,” Sandy and Marianne said at the same time.” pg.
All of these situations are the result of his isolation and loneliness. This happens to people all around the world due to lack of a support system. Depression is one of the leading mental illnesses in which people are diagnosed today. Without friends and family in people’s lives they have nowhere to turn but themselves. Over time the only thing that is left to do is to rely on something that will take the pain away even though it may be wrong.
Even though he has a close bond with his mother, it is not enough. “So I passed the hours after school. Sometimes, not often, I felt lonely. Then I would go home to Roy,” (13). What he needs is a friend that can give him advice and hear him out instead of the friends he usually has who make fun of him and make him do whatever they want him to do.
Holden feels depressed from the prior events in his family, and no longer has the desire to learn or strive to be successful. Holden feels distant from his family, and needs their loving care. After a rough childhood, Holden just needs someone, like Phoebe, there for him. He needs love and support from his family, and their sending him to boarding school to fend for himself is not a good idea. Holden can’t find a true friend in anyone, and he is trying to fill the hole that his brother’s death left in his life.
When he asks his siblings about his race or his background, they tease, lie, or dismiss him. When he asks his mother about herself, she avoids the question or answers curtly. James attempts to negotiate these conflicting loyalties. He feels protective toward his mother, but at the same time, he lives in a mostly black neighborhood where the political atmosphere moves him to embrace the revolution. Ruth's description of her childhood in Suffolk enables both James and the reader to understand how she decided to live her own life.
For example Lieutenant Cross was always thinking about Martha the women he loved back in the United States. This thought of her made Lieutenant Cross forget that he was in a war zone and before he knew it Ted Lavender died because of his emotional thought about her. Lieutenant Cross and Tim O’Brien share the same feeling of guilt. Lieutenant Cross feels bad after but one can see how these thoughts hit oneself hard and just like Tim O’Brien this sticks with him a long time because he believes if was focused and not going into his own world he could of saved one of his fellow
later on chappie moves into his friends apartment where he encounters a bike gang, they are not very pleasant people but Chappie tries to associate as family. He says "…so in a sense like Bruce said,we were a family weather we wanted to be or not…" (49) even though being a family with a bunch of dirty bikers was not the best thing, Chappie still felt like he finally belonged especially when Bruce, the head of the gang started to look after and care for Chappie. But unfortunately for Chappie Bruce dies in a house fire which makes Chappie even more sad because he lost someone that he looked up too almost like an older brother. Chappie later on meets Froggy a young girl about the age of 5 with a man that seemed to be more of a pedophile than a father figure to the little girl. Chappie later on rescues Froggy from the man and they go to a deserted schoolbus in a junk yard where they meet I-Man on page.
African Americans where fed up with the mistreatment they received in the south. The insulting wages they worked their whole lives for and the fear of dying or being tortured at any given moment for any given reason was devastating. In the Novel The Warmth of other suns by Isabel Wilkerson ties in with the novel Slavery by another name. The Warmth of other suns is like to continuation to the timeline begun in Slavery by another name. Even though The Warmth of other suns is based on the personal stories and lives of 3 people, it explains how African Americans had to do every thing possible to escape the south in search of newer and better lives.