Recently I read the story “My Fathers Brain What Alzheimer’s Takes Away” by Jonathan Franzen in my English 101 course. In this story Jonathan Franzen speaks about his parent’s relationship before and after Alzheimer’s, how he viewed Alzheimer’s affecting their lives and his feelings towards his father’s death. Franzen also often illustrates his mothers struggle to deal with his father’s disease and the many emotions attached to it. He talks about how his father started to forget different things which eventually turned into forgetting many everyday things. Franzen explained that his father got lost in his own neighborhood in one instance and couldn’t remember his own children’s birthdays another.
It makes him seem vulnerable and less secure without his parents. This is tragic, because not only has his parents died, but he’s never met them. The only way that he could imagine whom his parents were was through the tombstones. This is shown when he says, ‘My first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.’ This makes us feel sympathetic towards Pip because he feels stupid as he mentions that it is ‘unreasonably derived’ and it’s the only way he can reach his parents. He then desperately imagines the image of his father from the shaped letters of which are engraved upon his tombstone.
Both men are grieving over the loss of their loved one, In Jackson Jackson’s case, his grandmother and in Robert’s case his wife. Both of which lost their lives battling cancer. Now, let’s go a little deeper. Both men loved to drink, and the stories used the alcohol to show the differences in lifestyles each had. Robert loved Scotch.
Drugs and alcohol become part of the addict’s daily life, exactly like food. I completely disagree with such an issue, where it has become a problem through different areas. I see this; reading the book where James has lost everything he ever owned. Family, friends and most importantly himself. He has developed all sort of addiction through his behavior.
Every time Chief witnessed his father drinking, he did not see his father “suck out of it, it sucked out of him” (Kesey 189). This made him lose faith not only in the power of his father, but himself as well. Given that Randle Patrick McMurphy, a fellow patient, helped Chief bring himself back to his tall and powerful self, it is clear why he would be biased towards McMurphy. Chief’s time on the ward had become so traumatic to him; he believed that the ward was “a factory for the
He drank a lot, and admitted during his playing days he was not a very good father. After he retired, he went through deep depression and started drinking to a point where he became a raging alcoholic. Mickey admitted himself to the Betty Ford clinic, and it is here he learned that if he took one more drink, it would kill him. Being in the clinic brought Mickey into perspective of how revered he was. He got more mail than anyone had before him.
Enc 1102 Mrs. Willman Smoke Signals Essay Father Against Son The movie “Smoke Signals” was a great movie that showed lots of Diversity and stereotyping. The main characters had many conflicts between themselves and others. One character in particular Victor had many conflicts to overcome. He was trying to endure his father’s alcoholism, abandonment from his father, and jealousy. Victor was a small boy who watched his father, as he grew up, drink bottle after bottle of alcohol.
So that was out.” (Pg.59) He avoided all contact with his parents. Holden becomes so lonely that he tries to interact with anyone within his reach. He even asks a cab driver if he would “care to stop on the way” and join him for a cocktail (pg.60) Holden has alienated himself for such a prolonged amount of time that it has driven him into somewhat of a state of depersonalization. Instead of getting the support from the people close to him, he uses strangers to socialize with because he thinks they wont judge him as they are unknowing of his troubles. Holden has tried setting up rules for himself like “Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls… I broke it though, the same week I made it” (pg.63) Holden cant maintain even his own made up rules.
After reading the story about Jenn brother who struggle with addiction to alcohol and Oxycontin''. As she wrote the letter telling the story ''about Matt''. I think every family as at least one or two family members, who are addiction to drugs and alcohol . In my family I had my first husband who was addiction to drugs. Yes, this would cause a serious impact on any families.
In the beginning of the story you see that Sonny and his brother were not keeping close at all. In the second paragraph on pg 554, the brother says, “He became real to me again.” He’s basically saying that Sonny didn’t really exist to him anymore, until he read about him getting arrested in the article. He didn’t understand what was going on with his younger brother. He’s never even talked to him about what was going on with him to try to understand. When he talked to the past friend of Sonny’s, that’s where he starts to see what’s been going on with his brother, because of the things this guy is told him.