Swallowed in Addiction “You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.” -David Ryan What if there was a place where we did not have to think? A place where one’s happiness is controlled. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a science fiction novel that captures happiness through an early age drug called Soma, which produces euphoria with no side effects. They may not be any effects to this drug, but it causes an addiction to it. In today's world with our increasing stress and our never ending use of anti-depressants, it seems that today society is on a quest for soma.
Barbara appoints herself as Sheba’s caretaker from the start, but the reader soon realizes that she is obsessed with Sheba and, therefore, is an unreliable narrator. The scandal in the novel is the affair Sheba has with Steven, her young student. However, while the surface level of the novel is dedicated to exploring the sexual affair, underlying that is the relationship between Barbara and Sheba. At the end, the reader may ask himself or herself, which relationship was more scandalous—the relationship between Sheba and Steven or the one between Barbara and Sheba? This novel is more than a cautionary tale against illicit relationships; it is an in-depth exploration of the devastating force of obsession.
"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver Many things are at play in “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver. Most notably, would be the narrator’s sarcastic narration of the story and how the tone changes as the story progresses. “Metanoia” is latin for change of mind. Much like the cathedral, the blind man brought people together and helped them see another side of themselves. Alcohol and cannabis were used by the author as devices to break down the barriers between Robert and the husband.
Ultimately, the patient remains physically dependent on the opioid methadone, but is freed from the uncontrolled, compulsive, and disruptive behaviour seen in heroin addicts. Although does it really work as a method of getting addicts of heroin for good? Methadone has been used since the 1980’s in Scotland as a controlled and supposedly safe substitute for heroin. However is taking drugs to stop taking drugs an effective strategy? Taking statistics into consideration the answer is no.
He displaced his family an spent years forging relationships with individuals who many would describe as the underbelly of society in order to produce his unprecedented ethnography. Issues discussed Some of the issues discussed in “The Hold Life Has” and “In Search of Respect” appear to be quite similar. Through each of the books, there are the major themes of drug use. Though in terms of this particular theme, the similarity stops at that. Allen’s study of the Runakuna illustrated that their use of coca is a very spiritual act.
“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” is a story about nostalgia. Roshin Hamid’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” is a story with many different themes and ideas, but the one that is highlighted throughout the novel is definitely nostalgia, also known as a “longing for the past”. The main character in the novel, Changez, viciously states in the that; “nostalgia is America’s crack cocaine”, which can be seen as something very harmful, as well as temporarily lifting. Nostalgia comes in many different forms, for in America, it is the time before 9/11, or in Erica, as her ‘crack cocaine’ is Chris, a lost lover. 9/11 was an extremely significant moment in time not only for America, but for the rest of the world to observe as well, as it is the only time in history that America has been “brought down to it’s knees.” After this event, nostalgia was prevalent throughout the nation, as millions upon millions continue to this day to mourn and hope for the times before this event.
Teenage drinking is an important issue in every community and with the ever-changing adolescent population, Cormier has addressed this theme and issue through one of the main characters, Buddy Walker. Impelled by quilt, his parents divorce and by the urging of an immoral classmate (Harry Flowers), Buddy is rapidly becoming an alcoholic. Buddy finds that he needs the liquor to provide his needs, comfort and to escape from reality. ‘Buddy discovered the marvellous methods of booze, the way it soothed and stoked, made hazy the harshness of thing and made him almost – happy’. The technique to show Buddy’s alcoholism is the symbol of his bottle of gin.
Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis is a remarkable and disturbing novel. This novel is fast paced and it usually focuses on the main character throughout the novel. The novel tells how the main character, Clay quits his drug habits and how he started to become more mature. The novel, Less Than Zero is about an eighteen year old college student named Clay that went to he’s hometown for winter break from his eastern college school and has the time of his life by hanging out with his drug addict friends. The novel is involved with many drugs, sex, and violence.
Without the road – which allows Sal and Dean to continue their hedonistic pursuit of “girls, visions, everything” – the pair become discontent and agitated; Sal reaches temporary insanity and Dean becomes so dysfunctional that he experiences loss of coherent speech. The road offers Sal and Dean an experience which became known as the Beat Generation, a life full of raw sexual encounters, gritty worldly experiences and portal into an underworld. In Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957), the road’s main role is to stand as a physical symbol of freedom and spontaneity for the main characters Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, personified versions of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, (iconic figures during America’s Beat Generation). However the road also has a more abstract and spiritual symbolic purpose in forming the veins for the raw and sexualised body of America, which provide Dean and Sal with a journey in which to follow in order to discover aBut no
- I really loved the way the writer Ed Sheran wrote the song called the A Team. The song is about a young girl who becomes a prostitute and gets beaten up. She takes drugs and ends up passing away. The song lyrics are so meaning full and deep. The first time I heard the song I got all sad and teary because I know what it’s like to have someone close to you hooked on drugs and it is hard to get out.