His involvement of the civil rights prompted to death threats from white supremacist, forcing the family to move away. The family suffered fro intimidations, death threats and their home was burned down. In 1930 Malcolm X father’s body was found. The police ruled his death as accident, although Malcolm’s Mother believed the involvement of the White Supremacist, and due the emotional distress, she was admitted to a mental institution. The family was split up amongst various foster homes; this was the foundation of anger against the white race from Malcolm’s point of view.
They were together for over 30 years before Richard was shot dead in his own home and Marilyn was arrested for his murder. Obviously at some point their love story turned into a tragedy. It is hard to define when that turning point was. Over the years Richard began to resent that his love for Marilyn cost him his relationship with his family. The racist ideals ingrained in him by his own upbringing slowly started to come out as he started to treat Marilyn more like a slave than his wife.
His mother Louise Norton Little was a homemaker, suffered emotional breakdown because of her husband’s horrible death and was committed to a mental institution. Due to his mother’s illness Malcolm and his siblings were placed in a series of foster
This racist group was responsible for the death of Malcolm’s father leaving him on train tracks for dead. As a result of this, Malcolm's mother became mentally ill from the strain of raising eight children on her own. The children were removed and all sent to
I can personally understand what Conrad is going through because those are emotions I dealt with in my life with my father. One feels, angry, rejected and isolated from the family as a whole. (“Black sheep of the family”) This caused a great deal of resentment toward his mother Beth and in my case my dad. A sense of frustration toward your parent happens, which causes you to react emotionally in different manners, either by sadness, withdrawing, or defiant type behaviors acting out and going against what you know to
States' budget crises cut deeply into financing for mental health Programs which may cause a rising crime rate. It is appalling for me when I opened this Sunday’s news paper and saw the title: Did the system Fall Michael Swanson? It is about a boy who has serious mental illness killed person last week. “He should have been in a mental health facility when this whole thing happened. It just makes me sick” (A10) said by the boy’s mother Kathy Swanson.
I find this as motivation because just like my dad where is brothers and sister didn’t even graduate high school and make less than minimum wage, I am the first generation child to go to school. Not only with my immediate family but my entire family I am the first to go to college aside from my dad. After reading both of these novels I could relate to them just because my father went threw the exact same
Past History of the defendant: He suffered 18 years of a “miserable life”, “kicked around all his life”. His mother dead since the age of 9, he was in an orphanage a year and a half while his father was in jail for perjury. Then he became the victim of his abusive father who beat him every chance he got. From this he became a “wild angry kid”. It was stated he was a product of his neighborhood and from that developed a rap sheet.
His home life was very broken as a child until his parents divorced when he was six years old. After that, he was sent to a Catholic orphanage where he was punished by the nuns. Whenever Smith would wet the bed, the nuns would beat him. Perry states, “I had weak kidneys and wet the bed every night. I was severely beaten by the cottage mistress, who had called me names and made fun of me in front of all the boys” (275).
His murderous mindset all started at a young age. He was the seventh child of thirteen of a prostitute in the village of Tolima, Colombia, and was later kicked out of his family at the age of eight when he was caught fondling his younger sister. He was then picked up by a man, taken to a deserted house and repeatedly sodomized . So him living off the streets, sleeping in alleyways, traveling from place to place and not being able to trust anyone had lethal damage to his mind. While living on the streets he was adopted by an American family who supported him, and gave him shelter.