This is shown through some of the key characters in the film: Meryl, Nick and Julia. Meryl provides an excellent example of someone who has been traumatised by her experiences with death, especially in her family. Her father’s death left her floundering and disorientated, such that her own view of life and death became distorted and fatalistic, making trite comments such as “maybe it was meant to be”. Combined with the impact of watching a man get run over by a train in front of her, her mental health has severely been damaged, made evident by the flashes of paintings that signify her imagination, filled with morbid scenes of her own death played out in countless different scenarios. She
Undoubtedly, the plague causes the disintegration of families in the town. By structuring her novel as a retrospective narrative that is our protagonist, Anna Frith describes of what had happened in the book, enables the audience to adopt the sense of doom and horrors occurred during the time of the catastrophe. We are exposed to pain and grief that Anna feels when she lost her children whom she ‘loved from the moment she first reached down and touched the crowd’ of her children because of the plague, which results in her ‘(fighting) the sexton when he came to take Jamie’s body away’. Brooks clearly demonstrates and explores that the crisis such this plague can destroy
The themes that occur every day and in the novel “Destroying Avalon” and the film “The Colour Purple” are death/loss, bullying and relationships. Death/loss is something that occurs every day in society and people must overcome it to move on with their lives. Death is an equaliser to mankind regardless of our social structure, we all view death as a sadness because it is the end of our physical relationships. However the death of a young person is what creates the most despair for those who are left behind. For example in “Destroying Avalon” Avalon had to face the death of her best friend Marshall who took his own life because of being bullied for so many years and not letting anyone to support him through his tough times.
Her death caused much commotion to all the people who new her; the closer they were to her, the more they suffered. This is why the murder of Cassetti is looked at as justifiable. In Christie’s book many passengers denounced Cassetti, ”If ever a man deserved what he got, Ratchett or Cassetti is the man. I'm rejoiced at his end. Such a man wasn't fit to live!” and "I did so rejoice that that evil man was dead – that he could not any more kill or torture little children.
Her 2 sons and Mr. Vicars are shortly affected by the plague and as an outcome of the plague they die. As Anna loses her two young sons and the Mr. Vicars that was renting her spare room she starts to build up her ego in order to fight through
Because of the son’s death, Creon’s wife, too, killed herself out of grief. For once, Creon felt terrible about a situation he thought that he had created, but in turn, it was actually Antigone who had made his family fall. Her personal actions led Creon to killing her and therefore killing his family. Antigone’s actions brought suffering to everyone around her, including herself. She was to be buried alive, but in turn, hung herself.
Because he was so furious that Janie had done so, he responded by hitting her. “So he struck Janie with all his might and drove her from the store.” (Hurston 80) Jody wanted to prove that he was the one who had power. However, soon after Jody dies due to a disease. “The she starched and ironed her face, forming into just what people wanted to see, and opened up the window and cried, “Come heah people! Jody is dead.
When we are first introduced to Meryl, we are quickly shown that her mental health is somewhat unstable, then combined with the impact of bearing witness to a man being crushed by a train her thoughts are filled with morbid, artistic expressions of her own death. These animations are worked seamlessly in with live action shots and play out a range of scenarios that seem outrageous, but are commonly depicted on TV and in newspapers. Meryl suffers from bouts of paranoia, and seems to be almost paralysed with fear, and she blames this on the media “I don’t need your photos to remind me of all the bloody shit in the world. I know its awful. It scares me stupid” She yells at photojournalist Nick, who is also a victim of the media.
Nick is a photographer whose occupation sees him reflecting on tragic happenings such as the likes of war, poverty and natural disasters. Despite seeing mass quantities of disaster and suffering, Nick is unable to comprehend his own situation and instead dwells on his father’s slow and painful death which only increases his fears and anxieties. At the beginning of the film Look Both Ways, Meryl is able to brush off real tragedies such as witnessing her father dying and also the train crash due to her relentless envisaging of tragic events around every corner. Whether it is a train falling of the tracks and on to her or being eaten by a shark, Meryl struggles to maintain in touch with reality. This inevitably results in increased anxieties and inner turmoil, so when Meryl is confronted with real tragedy she is able to cope.
Fear and frustration became a daily routine. Acquitted children are getting hijacked in front of their parents. And innocent people getting killed day by day. Death rate proliferations and peace, serenity declines. To sum it all up this happened because of gang, clicks, hooligans, ring, and many other trouble fabricators.