While Melinda takes her anxiety out on her lips, her art is symbolic of how she feels about herself after Andy Evans raped her. The trees she draws for Mr. Freeman depict her emotional state in the aftermath of a numbing, traumatic experience. Melinda’s lips are mentioned when she is extremely uncomfortable and wants to disappear. For example, when Rachel/Rachelle is called up to help Melinda with an algebra problem. In this passage, Anderson writes “I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth.
some of the major incidents that I’ll include consist of the depression I suffered from due to isolation, and the terrible and intense arguments I had with my mother. In the end I will talk about how I have been trying to do random acts of kindness for my mother to make up for everything I made us both go through. (Score for Question 3: ___ of 20 points) Fill in sensory details about what happened. You do not need to fill in all five senses if they are not relevant to your topic, but be sure to fill in sight and sound. Answer: I felt very lonely and had low self esteem, I felt like a horrible person whether or not I wanted to admit it to myself.
I can’t even look at that part of myself” (ANDERSON, 28). Again, Melinda is expressing her hopelessness by belittling her self worth. She is disgusted with herself because society has a way of turning the tables on victims , making them feel a sense of hopelessness in their situations. Victim blaming is no new concept, and it is tragic that it has not yet been eradicated. Melinda experiences victim blaming from her peers, no doubt because Andy Evans, the schools pride and joy, was the attacker.
She has changed when she say to The Misfit "Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” She realizes she is as guilty as he is for murdering her family because she manipulated her son Bailey to take this road. The grandmother is sneaky and manipulative as she does something very significant to leads up to the ending of the story and the situation of the accident and initially getting murdered at the end of the story by the Misfit whom she knew about all along “Now look here Baily” she said “ see here read this,” “here is the fellow that call him self The Misfit” (308) She tries to manipulate her son Bailey to go on vacation to Tennessee instead of Florida by using The Misfit as a excuse not to head that way. The day the Family leaves to vacation is when the grandmother did something very sneaky. She snuck in a cat in her bag “ The next morning the grandmother was the first on in the car, ready to go.
They end up feeling guilt and shame because they have violated tow of the basic rules of humanity. Those rules they have violated are incest and killing one’s parent. The guilt and shame gets to Jocasta to make her commit suicide and Oedipus blind himself. Bullying today in society could fit into this category. Guilt and shame could cause suicidal thoughts in a person.
Medea Discussion Question #2 I actually think that Medea is the victim compared to Jason being the villain, although not entirely. I think this evidenced during a conversation between the nurse and the tutor, “Nurse: Oh, what an enemy Jason’s proved to those he should have loved! Tutor: What human being is not?” (Lines 15-16). They are both shown to have had their feelings of love with near absolute abhor. I think Medea deserves pity in certain situations, such as in the beginning and the events leading up to the murders, when she is shown crying out in the beginning of the play, “The pain of misery!
"She'd brooded on her loss, misery had brewed/ In her heart, that female horror, Grendel's/ Mother, slain his father's son/ With an angry sword. " First this quote refers to Grendel's mother and how the loss of her son impacted her. The physical description of both Grendel and his mother represent them as monstrous looking, tempting to ignore that they're very real emotions. Grendel's mother has been cast away from humanity, but also that she didn't do anything to precipitate this. The poet remains reader of how understandable Grendel's mother's response is.
Mary Shelly was hurt by her father’s disapproval. Mary and Shelley became social outcasts like the creature in Frankenstein. The relationship that way formed between two lovely artists ahead of their time was now filled with agitation, depravation, and remorse. Following the tenebrous trail was the death of Mary Shelley’s half sister Fanny Imlay and the suicide of Shelley’s first wife. Mary Shelley children also followed the same route.
However, tragedies such as Sandy Hook give us even more of a reason why firearms shouldn’t be banned. A lethal criminal gunman sees a school as a weaponless haven full of vulnerable victims, making them the easiest places to perform their psychotic plans. I believe that some of these massacres could be prevented if places, such as schools, have a security guard who is armed and trained for these situations. In 2007, a gunman entered a Colorado church and shot and killed two girls. A former police officer who was volunteering at the church “drew her firearm, shot and wounded the gunman before he could kill anyone else,” as stated in Bennett’s article.
I asked my twelve year old sister what she thinks revenge is and she said it is when you want to “get back” at someone who has done something bad to you. I asked my mother the same question and she perceives revenge as something that destroys the good in someone. On the surface, revenge is labeled at as a bad thing, but to me revenge is simply an overlooked art. Revenge is a feeling that can be easily seen on the surface of someone’s heart or barely visible in the depths of their soul. Wherever it is, it’s there, and it will inevitably lead to harm towards you in the same way in which you performed it.