“Girl, Interrupted” raises a lot of essential questions, but hardly gives any simple, clear-cut answers. We may say that this film questions the existence of mental illnesses itself. The reason, why the main character of the film, Susanna is staying in the mental hospital is an impulsive attempt to commit suicide by taking a lot of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. Instead of becoming a student of the prestigious Ivy League college, Susanna has a will-o'-the-wisp dream to become a writer. A couple of years before the events described in the movie, she took an overdose had her stomach pumped.
Shoshana Ubertini English 101C 21 November 2000 Girl Interrupted Have you ever watched a movie and then found out it was created from a book? That’s what happened to me, I saw the movie Girl Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. I then heard that it was made from a book itself. So for this assignment, I decided to read the book and compare and contrast it from the movie. The movie, Girl Interrupted is about an eighteen-year-old girl, named Susanna Kaysen.
4. What is the significance of Daisy’s suicide? What impact did it have on Susanna? Daisy’s suicide was significant in that it made Susanna realize that death was not the answer she broke down when she found her because that could have been her if she would have been successful in committing suicide. On the night before her release, Susanna’s writings were revealed to everyone and she became very angry with Lisa.
Who was known for his affairs with Marilyn. The Kennedys agreed to the plan and persuaded Dr Ralph Greenson her psychiatrist and Eunice Murray her housekeeper to also help orchestrate her death. Greenson had given Marilyn tablets and told her that theses could be pumped out of her stomach easily. However Marilyn didn’t know that both of them were siding with the Kennedys. After Marilyn swallowed the tablets Murray and Greenson didn’t call the ambulance as planned instead they waited until she died.
Intense feelings of loneliness are typically followed by frantic efforts to avoid being alone. Susanna is originally institutionalized for taking a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. She claims that she was not trying to kill herself, but only trying to get rid of a headache. While in the hospital she had severe bruises on her hands and claimed that she had no bones in her hand. People with borderline personality disorder often have suicide attempts and substance abuse in their history along with self-mutilation.
In February 2006, Emily Jerry, a two-year old child was at a Cleveland hospital to complete her last series of chemotherapy treatment. Her doctor ordered intravenous chemotherapy solution that was filled incorrectly by a pharmacy technician. The prescription called for 1% saline; however, a lethal amount of 23% saline was given instead, causing her to slip into a coma resulting in death. Eric Cropp, who was the supervising pharmacist signed off on the technician’s work despite her informing him that the mixture did not look right; nonetheless, he approved it. The pharmacy was so busy that day and short staffed, which led to a preventable fatal error that changed Eric’s whole life in a matter of seconds.
Freeman, who is best known for her local color stories, writes in “The Revolt of `Mother`“ about a small New England town at the end of the 19th century which was a time of great change. Freeman understands to point out the dialect, rural setting and history of the this particular location. This research paper deals with the “Representation of Women“ in the short story “The Revolt of `Mother`“ by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. In the beginning, a short biography and background information about the author and the short story itself is provided. After that, the reader can find out about the main aspect of this research paper, namely how women are presented in Freeman‘s short story.
James Mangold: Girl Interrupted In 1999, Director James Mangold, turned the best-selling memoir Girl Interrupted by American author Susanna Kaysen relating her experiences as a young woman in a psychiatric hospital during the 1960’s, into a film of the same name starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. Critics explained that adapted from Kaysen’s memoir, the film works well to bring Kaysen’s words to life (Gabi) and is a must for everyone who is seeking for a deep, thoughtful, and emotional film as well as great actors! (Buettner). In Mangold’s unhappy drama, we meet Susanna Kaysen, a depressed 18-year old who’s suicide attempt lands her in a mental institution, where she befriends a band of troubled woman in her ward, but falls into the hypnotic sway of a woman named Lisa the wildest of the bunch. After getting into trouble and standing up to Lisa’s cruelty, Susanna undergoes a dramatic change from being a directionless teen, to a confident knowledgeable woman pursuing her treatment seriously and leaving the institution behind.
Tarantino shows her driving in this scene to show that she is still has not completed her journey. She first explains what Bill and the Deadly Viper Assassins have done to her (by this time in the movie we know that she once was part of the Deadly Viper Assassins). She tells how they annihilated her wedding rehearsal with intent to kill her and everyone there, and they almost did just that. The last bullet was saved for Bill to end the life of the pregnant bride “Arlene,” but it did not kill her, it put her into a coma. She was in a hospital until one day four years later; Beatrix was awoken by the bite of a mosquito.
José E. Colón Serrano English 3101-2U1 December 04, 2013 In Barbara Huttman’s "A Crime of Compassion”, she develops the conflict undergone by the author, a nurse who performed euthanasia without the approval of her superior. Euthanasia in accordance to “BBC-Ethics” is the termination of life of a very sick person in order to free them from their suffering. In most cases, euthanasia is carried out because the person who is seriously ill asks for it, but there are cases where a person cannot make such request. The author was taken to the Phil Donahue show as if she was taken to court, but in the eyes of the audience she already was guilty of committing a crime. This essay will argue that Huttmann made a wise decision and did not commit a crime.