Kristina Georgia Snow and her alter ego, Bree, start at the beginning and lead you through the chilling story of her downfall due to her addiction to crank, better known as crystal meth. The story starts when Kristina, the perfect daughter, goes to visit her father who is an alcoholic and drug addict living on the rough side of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is where Kristina’s inner rebellious vixen, Bree, comes out to play. It is in Albuquerque that she meets her first love as well as the monster, crank. She stays there for three weeks before moving back to Reno, Nevada where her mother, step-father, and two siblings live.
Joe Keels April 16, 2012 Ellen Foster Compare & Contrast When I first started reading the novel Ellen Foster you get the image of a poor white girl that family struggled, and from her mother who is very ill to a father who is an alcoholic. Secondly, throughout the novel there were lots of key points where we can compare and contrast the book from the movie. When starting the book you find out that Ellen lives with her mother and father, the house hold that she stays in is mainly ran by her now that her mother has become ill and dies of an overdose of taking too many pills. But when watching the film we saw her mother suddenly die of a stroke. Her father who plays one of the main parts in her life even though to her he
David came from a troubled background moving from squat to squat and had witnessed his mother, Moira, being physically and sexually abused. David’s mother turned to prostitution in order to pay for her drug addiction. pter sister was also sold for sex to pay for Moira’s drugs. David and his sister became’ lost children’ and severely neglected, often starved and physically beaten. After the death of his mother, Social Services stepped in, unfortunately, efforts to keep the siblings together, was thwarted due to David’s challenging behaviour including his sexually harmful behaviours.
An example of someone pursuing a relationship for companionship is Rachel. She is the main characters wife who becomes promiscuous after their son, Carlton, dies. To describe this season in her life, she leaves a poem on Julian’s, the main character’s, pillow which has a line that reads, “a season of folly was all that I needed. Where is the love that once I called mine” (Phillips 140). Rachel is unable to deal with her life after Carlton dies, and she abuses sleeping pills to cope with her pain (Phillips 191).
Enough to help someone who wants to commit suicide, or someone who’s been sexually assaulted, or abused, and for those who’ve lost a loved one. You can see me at school with a smile on my face and a bunch of friends surrounding me, but there’s more to me. This is my story. How I was lost, sexually assaulted, hurt, depressed, went through grieve, and finally how I recovered. I was the first born and was the only child till I was six, but during those six years I witness my mother getting hit by my father and him being drunk every day and never home.
However in this narrative, the main character is the younger sister of an addict. The story follows the events of how the young girl is effected by the addiction that takes over her older brother, and the realization that she had to come to that no matter how much she wanted her brother to change, he never wanted too. And like any addiction, the addict will not change for anyone or anything but themselves. The Destruction of Addiction
Later, we find out that the main character lost his mom a little over a year ago and it seems as though that he hasn't gotten past it yet. It's easy to come to the conclusion that the protagonist is addicted to cocaine because his mother died, and therefore he has lost all of his motivation, he simply does enough to get by. The protagonist suggests hypocritically that the baby try to change its life, but much like him, it is stubborn and refuses to change unless he feels he has to. Pg.2 The
The Tragedy of Child Abuse A Child Called "It" is a real life story about a boy brutally beaten and starved by his mentally disturbed and alcoholic mother. Dave Pelzer was the third-born of five children (Ronald, Stan, Russell, and Kevin). His father was a firefighter and, according to Dave, his mother was originally a loving, kind, and wonderful person. This all changed when his mother began drinking and eventually became an alcoholic. Even though advocates against child abuse work diligently every day to put an end to child abuse, it is tragic because child abuse can cause physical and emotional distress along with many other factors and child abuse can lead to developmental issues and detachment from others.
As an introduction to the practical relevance of false memories Steffens & Mecklenbrauker (2007) describe a woman who has been in therapy for many years because “she has trouble trusting men; has panic attacks; has a distant relationship with her father; and suffers from disturbing nightmares” (p 12). However, at some point in the therapy she “recovers” faint memories of early childhood abuse by her father. She is not sure if these are old memories or reconstructed memories of her beliefs and feelings. Yet, the self help literature for victims is quite clear. For instance, “you must believe that your client was sexually abused, even if she sometimes has doubts because no one invents abuse” (Steffens et al, p 12).
There is a great movie that just appeared in theater called Side Effects starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Vinessa Shaw. It is about a woman who falls into a clinical depression after her and her husband have to readjust to a new life in a new town after his release from prison and being involved in a car crash. The woman begins to see a psychiatrist who then prescribes her medication to help relieve her anxiety. The medication then causes a blur between fantasy and reality to the point she commits murder but has no recollection of it. She tries to fight it and blame it on her psychiatrist because he knew of the side effects of the medication, and had told her she was fine and had done nothing to regulate the medication.