After a heated confrontation about his homosexuality, he shot himself and ever since Blanche has been haunted by the events of that night. She is unstable and uses many ways to trick and delude the people she meets. She lives in her own fantasy world where characters, such as Shep Huntleigh, come from her imagination. There are many themes throughout the play, but one of the most prominent signs of Blanche's declining sanity revolves around her exposure to natural light. We first notice this in the first scene, where Blanche has just arrived in New Orleans, at her sister, Stella's, apartment.
As a child she would work alongside her mother as a maid. When Frankie grows up she moves to Los Angeles and works for at a go-go club as an exotic dancer. In the film, Frankie also suffers from amnesia. On numerous occasions she forgets who she is with and what they are doing together. Frankie passes out in the middle of the street one night and is taking to a hospital.
Crank Author: Ellen Hopkins “Crank” is a book written by Ellen Hopkins which retells the story of her daughter's troubles with drug addiction. Although the story is based on some true events most of the story was over dramatized. In this book the author goes in great detail about the young girls life dealing with addiction, rape and unwanted pregnancy resulting from the rape. The main characters name is Kristina Snow. Her parents divorced when she was young and she now lives with her mother and step father.
She invited him and a couple of his friends to a local bar after the casino. After the bar, her friends said she was very intoxicated and was last seen getting into a vehicle with Van Der Sloot and his friends. When she didn’t show up the next morning, the police investigation began. At first, Joran and his friend’s story coincided. They stated that all went to the beach and dropped her off at the hotel after they were done.
Medea, the main character in the play was a leader in the Chicano revolt. She has scars up and down her arms from the revolution. After Medea’s husband Jason finds her cheating on him with a woman he exiles Medea and her lover Luna to Phoenix, a rundown gypsy ghetto where “queer” people are sent. After seven years in exile Jason returns to Medea’s life in order to take their son Chac-Mool back to Aztlan. This is the turning point of the play and a source of major conflict for all the characters.
He starts practicing with his band “Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two” and decides to bug Sam Phillips at Sun Records to let him perform for him quickly and the end up making a record that day. Then It jumps to Johnny on tour with “The Killer” Jerry Lee Lewis, a few scenes with “The King” Elvis Presley and of course his love for June Carter begins. It later shows the early stages of his drug problems and sleeping with young girls. Eventually all of the men on the tour become alcoholic drug addicts and June decides to leave the tour. Eventually Johnny Talks June into doing a duet tour with him and eventually they fall in love and the rest is history.
The music, in the background “bright lights, big city” is ironic as Melanie insults her old friends at the small-town pub by asking, “how do you people live like this?”. This is like Gwen’s angry rhetorical questions like “Why do they live like that?”. Melanie’s turning point is when she choses to give up the fairy tale to remarry Jake. She realises the relationships are more important. Like in Away, Melanie escapes to the beach in the storm where she meets her true love, Jake.
Nelson is a lawyer and is approached by a young woman who is being accused of stealing garments from her white female employer. As the trial continues the white female employer is offended by the way Nelson is questioning her and shows how the native black Africans were compared to the white Europeans. During this time, Mandela's first wife had left him and he married Winnie, his second wife of 38 years. Throughout the movie there are certain developments that occur. One of which was a major boycott in Johannesburg that takes place on the buses; where all the black
Paul goes to Adelaide and loses the competition with his band and also the piano competition. 8. In this final meeting, Keller is ready to open up, and say all his secrets. This is also the last time Rosie is to be in Darwin. Paul's aroused sexual preference overwhelms him and he leaves Keller before Keller can open up - at the point Keller was FINALLY ready, he left to go to
He tired drugs. Like at a party he wasn’t feeling too happy so Mary Elizabeth gave Charlie acid. Another theme in the novel would be abuse. Charlie was sexually abused by his aunt Helen. Every Saturday night.