When, finally Fisher opens up to the Doctor, they begin to develop a relationship. Antwone is nervous and closed at first, but Dr. Davenport doesn’t back down from asking the searching questions he has asked Fisher. Eventually Davenport learns a lot about Fisher though their sessions. He learns of Antwone’s troubled past and his struggle growing up a foster child. Davenport gives Fisher plenty of advice on how to act when the guys enrage him or what to say around women but the most important advice was when he told Antwone that he should go find his mother, find out her story.
Priestley first describes Sheila as naïve and she seems very 'playful' and he says she is being possessed as she talks to Gerald. Although she is 'half serious, half playful' Priestley makes her seem more clever as she has suspicions about Gerald when she mentions 'last summer, when you never came near me'. This only becomes noticable to us when Gerald reveals that he had an affair with Eva Smith. Sheila makes an effort in act 1 to get her parents to approve of Gerald. When she receives the ring from Gerald, she is immediately 'excited', and Priestley shows this in her speech with the use of dashes as she asks 'Mummy - isn't it a beauty?'.
Eric: His relations with his family are open; all the family knows his drink problem except his mother because he still sees him as a child. Eric is showed as an immature person because instead of speaking and solving his problems he drinks to forget the however he matures and learns several important things about responsibility and life through the play; like assuming his responsibility of Eva’s death. Eric’s language is similar to Sheila not very formal or informal. Gerald: He is the only person who isn’t of the Birling family; he is the son of a competitor of Birling’s company. He is attracted by both Eva and Sheila.
Sweeney's observation that Gregor fails to maintain critical social relationships which advanced his transformed state helps to clarify how Gregor's predicament was exacerbated by the loss of status within his own family. Sweeney maintains that Gregor's “decreasing contacts with his family have eroded his sense of being a person. (149)” This observation along with the concept that Gregor rationalizes as a cognitive human yet reacts instinctively as a bug provides clarity and allows readers to better understand how the narrator constructs the story. Throughout Kafka's novel it is difficult as a reader to understand exactly how Gregor has transformed because he seems to still be able to rationalize and reason like a human. Sweeney points out that in the first section of the novel the narrator says, “if Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her for everything she had to do for him, he could have accepted her services more easily; as it was they caused him pain.
The Other Wes Moore In the The Other Wes Moore, the author, uses a specific moment to expand on what could have been the primary moment in which develops his character into his new better version of himself. Attempting to run away from valley forge provides a humbling experience for the author Wes Moore, and also demonstrates his carelessness, and lack of seriousness for all what his family did for him by sending him here. After an attempt to run aways, he has a meeting with his mom in which he begs for her to let him come home but all she says is “Wes, you are not going anywhere until you give this place a try...too many people have sacrificed in order for you to be here”(95). The author wes moore realizes at that precise moment that his grandparents had given his mother money in order for him to be at military school. Through this newly gained knowledge it immediately has an effect on his perspective on he views Valley Forge.
However as he works with the patients, he develops a new perspective and insight into certain matters and himself. When Nick and Lucy denounce him for doing a play about love, by declaring that ‘only mad people in this day and age would do a work about love and infidelity’, Lewis is able to realise that love and friendship is more important than politics. He learns about the importance of friendship, clearly evident, that he attends the moratorium, helping the patients prepare for their performance with an additional rehearsal. Lewis also finds strength later in the play, which he was devoid of to begin with . At the start, he is overwhelmed by the patients such as Cherry, Doug and Roy by their 'crazy' behaviour.
In Bernice Bobs Her Hair Marjorie Harvey is popular and her dull cousin, Bernice, comes to visit her. They try to get along for the sake of their parents but inside, they could not stand each other. Even though her cousin is popular, nobody wants to talk to Bernice. They have dances that they go to and after a dance, Bernice and Marjorie talk. After they talked, Bernice practices the art of popularity for the next dance.
And the build up of these aspects, consequently creates barriers that detaches them from the wider world, and restrains them from opening up themselves to others and around them. The film “Lars and the Real Girl” by Craig Gillepsi evidently shows verification of this through the establishment shot of the film, portraying Lars starring out of the icy windows. Through this we can grasp the isolation and alienation experienced by Lars in relation to the wider world due to his emotional paralysis built up as a result of the loss of his parents. This creates an impenetrable barrier between him and the rest of the community. This is further aided by the imagery of snow, in the establishment shot symbolising the negative connotations of
If their mother was still alive they would not have to hide from their father. Brian on the other hand attributed his experiences to the fact that life was harsh on him and he could not forgive the people in his life that hurt him. This was in the beginning of the movie. An example of this is when he refuses to visit his mother during the weekends and speakes rudely to his mother on the phone. Later on in the movie , after mixing with Rohana and Rohani he forgives his mother and goes to visit her.
At first the family members are pleased to help the protagonist in difficulties, but later on the help and situation became burden so they have to struggle or abandon the original plan. However, they end up with tragic endings –they, as the protagonist or family member both left because of the family factors. In which, the protagonist of The Glass Menagerie left without solving the problem of his sister, while the protagonist of The Metamorphosis left by solving the problem of his sister. In both stories, there are internal and external conflicts, which reflect the problem a person may experience in one’s life. Internal conflict, struggle is inside one’s head, is referred to as a man against himself.