The young woman is nineteen when she is kidnapped and within a couple of years becomes pregnant and bears a son, Jack. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has kept her for seven years. Through ingenuity and determination, Ma creates a life for herself and her son, but she knows it’s not enough for either of them. Jack’s curiosity is building alongside Ma’s desperation and Room can not contain either of them for much longer. With that being said, the main effects of Ma’s unfortunate abduction result in seven long years of being held captive, Ma’s trauma and phases of depression which lead her to suicidal attempts, and most importantly, both a stumbling block and advantage, the bearing of her only son, Jack.
Marian said she felt fortunate to have found refuge. On the other hand, Nadia was 17 years old, her husband cut off her nose and ear while she was sleeping, she has undergone six operations and need more. Nadia said "I don't know anything about happiness". Another girl Gulsum, was kidnapped by her father, who was estranged from her mother, was forced to marry the son of her father's lover. Her husband and her mother- in- law beat her and threatened to kill
To escape the poverty of Africa, her parents entrusted her to her great aunt who brought her to Europe. Victoria was tortured to death by that great-aunt, Marie Therese Kouao, and the woman's boyfriend Carl Manning. But Victoria need not have died. Police, doctors, social workers all had contact with her while she was being abused | Carl Manning said that Kouao would strike Victoria on a daily basis with a shoe, a coat hanger and a wooden cooking spoon and would strike her on her toes with a hammer. Victoria spent much of her last days, in the winter of 1999–2000, living and sleeping in a bath in an unheated bathroom, bound hand and foot inside a bin bag, lying in her own urine and faeces.
However, by the end of the novel she is making an effort to take control over her emotions: she sees a doctor and receives medication for her depression, and attempts to be patient in dealing with Christopher. Similarly, Christopher’s father vows to regain Christopher’s trust by always being truthful, and Christopher himself, by making the journey to London, shows that he is able to overcome some aspect of his condition. Each of these characters tries to take control of their ‘behavioural problems’ in order to rebuild relationships that are important to them. Judy Boone, Christopher’s mother believes she is incapable of change when she writes this in the second letter that Christopher discovers. She is trying to explain to her son some months after leaving her husband and Christopher that she is not a very good mother.
The Lovely Bones is a tragic tale of how Susie Salmon and her family dealt with her rape and murder at the age of fourteen. The novel is riveting as it combines violence, love and mystery into one story of a broken family and their healing. The book was written by Alice Sebold who herself was raped during her college years. The story does not have your typical perfect ending but one as Weldon describes, one in which Susie has come to terms with her death. Susie was only fourteen when she was raped and killed by a man she knew.
In Tomorrow, When the War Began, the characters experience a number of difficulties to cope with the changes that occur and in order for them to survive, they use teamwork and leadership. We see in john Marsden’s novel the characters start off by just living an ordinary life. They are a normal group of teenagers in their last year of school planning to just go out and be separated from civilization. Not expecting much more than a fun time away to get to know each other. Soon enough we see how their whole lives get turned around when they are first put to the test of choosing between going back and helping everyone or just helping themselves.
Andrea Yates, the Houston mom who in 2001 drowned her five young children one-by-one in the bathtub (Moisse, 2013). Andrea Yates was a mother of Mary, 6 months, Luke, 2, Paul, 3, John, 5, and Noah, 7. Andrea Yates defense claim had been that God told her to drown all her children. During her first trial she was found guilty on 3 counts of murder however, it was overturned due to erroneous testimony during an appeal. Following that Andrea Yates submitted a plea of guilty for reason of insanity.
Sohrab repeats this same statement while in the hospital, and both concern adoption. Soraya is tired of trying for her own baby but then is faced with the process of considering adoption, and Sohrab had attempted suicide because he thought he would have to go to an orphanage while he awaited a pending adoption. This is also ironic because both should be physically exhausted from their traumas, but their statements are only referring to their mental exhaustion and resignation. Then, in a remorseful
What wasn’t normal was that she was sad, very sad. I had never seen my grandmother cry, that I could remember, and even worse I had no idea why she was crying. Now I can’t believe she didn’t cry more. Then she went to the hospital for a long time for various surgeries, and plans on what to do next. My brother and I stayed at my Grandpa’s house most of the time she was up there mostly only going home to sleep and get ready for school the next day, it was weird and confusing but my grandpa was good at getting our minds off of things and keeping our spirits up when he needed to.
Spilled Salt: By Barbara Neely The short story “spilled salt”, by Barbara Neely is about a single mother, Myrna, who raised her son alone since he was six. The son, Kenny, convinced a crime. Because he raped a girl, he spent four years in prison and the story starts when he released from prison and came back home where his mother doesn’t want to live with him anymore. She doesn’t want to lose her sweet memories of the little and funny boy. She loves the boy who was four years ago and not the man who is now standing in front of her.