Due to William Foster (Douglas) recent divorce and the restraining order his ex-wife Beth (Hershey) had ordered to keep him away from her and their child Adele can be viewed throughout this movie as being William Foster’s (Douglas) main area of stress mainly since his main aim was not to hurt anyone but instead to reunite his family despite the divorce, on his daughter’s birthday. It can be seem where his violent reactions all branched from any circumstance that tried to hinder him from getting home to see and reunite his family. In addition to this distress, William Foster was recently laid off from his job which had made it unable for him to support his child. Throughout William’s (Douglas’) marriage, he was seen as a very controlling husband that would not take no for an answer amidst all his support, interest and time put in in taking care of his family. This had eventually brought distress upon his wife, distress that was soon reflected by fear of him and his possible attack on herself and her child.
Sufiya’s father did not want a daughter, he was ashamed of her. This shame that was then projected onto her, which made her feel ashamed herself. To begin with, the book starts off with the background behind one of the main character’s lives. Three siblings, Chhunni, Munnee, and Bunny, had a father who hated them, after he died they decided to have a party since their father wouldn’t let them leave the house while he was still alive. During the party, one of them had, had sex, which happened to be against their religion since she was not married.
As Mary’s brother Laurie ran way from home after the clash with their father Calvin Pye, their mother got sick. Since Calvin was very irritated with his children, life was somewhat lonely for Mary which eventually forced her to get close to Matt. An excerpt from novel as narrated by Kat can exemplify how solitude contributed in fabricating the bond between Kate and Matt: “Mrs Pye was in a really serious state that summer, and that worry about her, coming on top of everything else, was more than Marie could bear alone. So she turned for comfort to matt. If she’d had more friends, or if her mother had had family living near, or if Calvin hadn’t alienated the whole community … then maybe Marie would not have needed to turn so hard, so appealingly to Matt.
In this movie “Losing Isaiah” Khaiah was under the influence of drugs and at the time didn’t realize she was putting her child in danger when she left him. But does that make her an unfit mother? It shouldn’t be about the color of one’s skin or a stereotype. I will agree with the director, Stephen Gyllenhaal that no one is perfect, and everyone makes mistakes. PLOT SUMMARY by the Director Two woman of different social, economic and ethnic find themselves in a bitter, emotional custody
Seventeen years later, when he comes face to face with his daughter, he is shocked then confused and angry about the situation. He later tells Josie that he had a lot of problems back then and even if he had known about the pregnancy he may not have come back to help Christina. He appears as the independent, successful barrister. At first he says to Christina he wants nothing to do with Josie but when Christina tells him to go and forget them both, he doesn’t. Looking for Alibrandi conveys belonging in a negative way at the start of the novel as Josie feels like she doesn’t belong with her family and with the people at school. She’s still trying to discover her cultural identity and she’s in confusion about where she stands in life and who she belongs to.
He believed that people were planning to kill him making him extremely paranoid and sometimes indecisive. After increasing pressure Bill began to go see a therapist, later being diagnosed with schizophrenia paranoid type. Bills illness stemmed from a number of factors including a harsh childhood. He was the youngest of four children receiving minimal attention from his parents. His mother was uninterested in Bill’s childhood, not encouraging him to participate in social activities.
Many of her foster parents wanted to help Genie recover or were the therapists that taught Genie at the hospital. Though everyone that adopted Genie never planned to raise her for her whole life and the research was losing support. Genie’s doctors were charged with only focusing on their hypothesis of the critical period, and testing her relentlessly by Genie’s mother who then started to care for Genie but soon realized that she could not raise her daughter either. Foster homes after she left her mother were detrimental to Genie’s progress, causing her to start using silence as a coping method again. The psychologists’ theory of why Genie could not fully recover was due to her lack of development in what they called “The Critical Period.” The Critical Period is the time in a person’s life when learning basic human qualities such as language, emotional responses, and movement is crucial.
I had to go through life not having a father because he would rather live for him instead of me and be selfish. It wasn’t fair to me. As a nineteen year old strong young lady I have come to the conclusion that my father isn’t the best and he has never been a good father because of his lack of father skills. There’s multiple situations I can recall showing that my father didn’t do a well job at being my father. For example, one weekend my father and I spoke and we decided to spend time together and go visit my mother.
After returning home the adjustment didn’t seem easy at all for anyone in Harold’s household. As the lies grew and the stories grew old, Harold became a different type of person: “Krebs acquired the nausea in regard to experience that is the result of untruth or exaggeration.” Harold’s Mother tried to put up with his stories and from time to time tried to listen to his dishonesties of war, but quickly became bored. Soon after she demanded him to find a job and a girl and to try to live a life of a normal Oklahoma young man, Krebs quickly pushed her off and agreed with her comments. “Before Krebs went away to the war he had never been allowed to drive the family motor car.” So when his mother tried to bribe him with using the car and giving
One of the biggest problems that divorce imposes on children is the sadness of their family breaking up and having to adjust to one parent no longer living in the home. Usually it hurts all the family members, including the children that are very young and do not understand what is happening, but they still feel the loss of one of the parents not being around. Divorce, in any circumstance, rips a child apart limiting time spent with his/her parents, and confusing him/her. In Matthew 19:8-9 it says, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.