BREAKING NEWS! People always seem to get very upset when they hear about a young person’s death, or even worse, their murder. These stories are revealed in TV broadcasts, news, and from the word of mouth. One can only imagine the pain the family of the lost child is going through. The grief, the loneliness, and hearing others around them discuss the issue only add to their problems.
Dan broke his leg in the accident and he feels 'like roofing nails are being belted into my busted foot', while he suffers mentally because he lost three of his best mates. His mental pain and suffering is shown on page 193 when he says 'I'm sobbing now, my chest heaving like I'm breathing for all of us: Carlo, Aaron, Borris, Phan and me'. Relationships are also deeply explored in contemporary adolescent fiction between friends, parents and siblings and how they evolve over time. The exposure to risk and the feeling of being
Death caused by major incidents can leave an individual emotionally afflicted. By this the person has lost a family member such as mother, father, sisters, etc. In some cases even a whole family. In the case of 9/11 many children and teenagers had lost there parents in the incident which left them as orphans and emotionally distressed. 2) Effects on rescue workers A condition known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can leave a rescue worker physically and mentally ill.
This physical trauma has scarred many, as well as creating distraught in the children’s minds of growing up not knowing their family nor true identity (Burns 2008). However, it is not just the individual child who was impacted, the families of the Stolen Generation suffered enormously. A report of ‘National Sorry Day’ showed a
Sociologically, grieving within families is not an easy task. Each family member reacts to death differently and forces family members to make changes in their lives in order to adjust to life without this family member. Raney and Charles had a hard time accepting the suicide of Uncle Nate. When Charles voiced his opinion that Uncle Nate was clearly depressed, obsessive-compulsive, and crippled from his life experiences, thus needing psychological help in order to heal, Raney took it as an insult. In Raney’s mind, Charles was placing blame on her, her family, and specifically, her mother who spent most of her time taking care of Uncle Nate.
There was sickness and hunger and most of people’s children die before they reach adulthood. The Puritan did everything they could just to survive the difficulty of setting up the colony. It may be because this hardship and struggle that the puritans develop their negative outlook on life. Their need for a God to save them to get through the struggle of the day. It can also explain their belief in superstition and fear of things like witches.
I feel sorry for his whole family having to go through this pain and disaster. I can’t imagine how they can lose someone so special to them, and who’s still way too young and has their whole life ahead of them. I feel like this is so common young kids dying for reasons that are unacceptable.
“Bullying is a big problem that effects millions of students, and it has everyone worried, not just the kids on it’s receiving end” (Lyness 1). Bullying does not just affect kids, but the parents too. It affects the parents because a lot of their children begin to be afraid attending school. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda was affected by being bullied lead her to think about suicide, scared of coming to school, and victims like Melinda begin to not care about school and fail. Melinda was affected by being bullied and led to many things and one of them is thinking about suicide.
Incarnations of Burned Children As a helpless young child, a single accident can have a life long impact. In David Foster Wallace’s, “Incarnations of Burned Children,” has theme and meaning, and describes a terrible accident that could happen to any young family. This tragedy could affect this young child for life, in more ways than one. The pain from this accident could make this child, shut himself out from many things throughout his life. The burns could possibly still be seen one later in life, their personal space could also still be effected, this causing relationship issues for the child later in life, and it could make the child feel different from the rest of the world.
Many people, young and old, had to deal with heartbreak. No one was immune to the loss of life or possessions. I got to meet many of the kids impacted by the hurricane at the Vacation Bible School our church had arranged. It was tragic for me to see all of those children, so young and innocent, having to deal with an event so horrifying. Many of them tattered and broken like their homes and families.