Book report 4/19/12 AOE “The Black Box” written by Julie Schumacher is a story about one girls struggle through depression. This novel is different from other stories because it is told through the perspective of her sister, Elena. Elena tells the story of her sister Dora’s depression and how it not only affected Dora’s life but the whole family’s life as well. This story takes place in Elena’s home where Dora one day announced that she wishes she was dead and overdosed on pills. Their overprotective mother immediately put Dora in the psych ward at Lorning Hospital.
She looks back on times when George jilted her and tries to leave it in the past. Granny wants to see George and tell him that she’s forgotten him and has had a rich life, when in reality she can’t get him out of her mind. She wants him to know that she has everything he took from her and has become a stronger woman because of him. As she thinks these thoughts, however, it occurs to her that there’s something she’s still missing. A terrible pain cuts through her.
By: Ariana Summary Chloe Saunders is a fifteen year old girl “whose life will never be the same again.” This had started when a particularly violent ghost haunts her; she gets noticed for all the wrong reasons. Her seemingly crazed behaviour earns her trip to Lyle House, a centre for disturbed teens. While unpacking she was introduced to Mrs. Talbot, Mrs. Wang, and Miss Van Dope the nurses of the Lyle House she also met her roommate Liz who had introduced her to the others, Tori, Rae, Simon and Derek. Unexpectedly one day Liz was sent away. Was she transferred, murdered or hospitalized?
Meaghan Savage Block -4 (a,c,e) She was born as Norma Jeane on June 1st 1926.She was bounced around from foster home to foster home when she was little and spent little time with her mother because her mother was institutionalized for mental illness. She had a difficult child hood with many emotional problems. She was beaten as a child by older boys in her family, and was raped when she was eight. She always tried to replace her broken up family by attaching herself to others. She married at the young age of 16 to James Dougherty.
“I hope I never been that fat.” she finally said, with a low upset sound. Obesities always kind, because they do not have a good looking to attract people talk with them. Psychologically, they often feel self-abasement in interpersonal communication. They often feel nebbish in interpersonal communication, they become agitated and have periodic gluttony phenomenon. The girl I mentioned in the TV show, have an unpleasant past.
Starving to death Questions: 1. The physical changes: You lose weight and you can die if you lose enough weight. Tibi is pale, tired and in pain and she has visible veins. The mental changes: You are not yourself, and the anorexia takes control of your life and your mind. Tibi has really low self esteem, and she doesn’t laugh and have fun anymore.
I was in a double room and my roommate, Marie, a heavy girl, had jumped off the roof of her house and shattered her knee. She was there almost as long as I was and I later saw her at physical therapy. She never walked the same again and experienced several complications while in the hospital. What seemed like a simple fracture turned into a nightmare for her, and what seemed like a hopeless situation for me turned out alright. I couldn’t help but wonder why I was so lucky.
After Andrea Yates gave birth to her fourth child, she attempted suicide by taking an overdose of sedatives. Due to insurance issues Andrea Yates was discharged from the hospital and prescribed some anti-depressants in which she did not take. Andrea attempted suicide for a second time in which she held a knife against her throat. Andrea reported that she heard voices telling her to get a knife. She then began to cut causing harm to herself by cutting herself.
Joe Keels April 16, 2012 Ellen Foster Compare & Contrast When I first started reading the novel Ellen Foster you get the image of a poor white girl that family struggled, and from her mother who is very ill to a father who is an alcoholic. Secondly, throughout the novel there were lots of key points where we can compare and contrast the book from the movie. When starting the book you find out that Ellen lives with her mother and father, the house hold that she stays in is mainly ran by her now that her mother has become ill and dies of an overdose of taking too many pills. But when watching the film we saw her mother suddenly die of a stroke. Her father who plays one of the main parts in her life even though to her he
This is because she is mentally and physically exhausted and drained where she never gives herself a break. In Erikson’s Psychosocial Development stages of Early Childhood (2 to 3 years) failure to develop a sense of personal control over psychical skills, personal control and sense of independence leads to shame and doubt. Maria may have failed in these early stages of life and now is where the dreams of being naked and ashamed are taunting