Shameless is a TV series on ShowTime. Shameless is about the Gallagher’s, a dysfunctional family, where the father; Frank Gallagher is an alcoholic and a drug addict, because of that Fiona The oldest daughter is left to take care of her siblings. Fiona Gallagher faces many troubles, sending the kid to school, working eight jobs, dealing with relationship problems, the alcoholic father, and teenage siblings. The mother, Monica has bipolar disorder, left them new with their father and comes and goes whenever she feels like it. This family goes through everything, including the death of their aunt, and the frauds made by their father.
Shameless provides the viewers an opportunity to see alcoholism and drug addiction in a more realistic family setting. The Gallagher’s family live on the South side of Chicago. They are a low-income family. As a result, the family has a lot of problems to produce a living. Frank Gallagher, the father, has substance use disorder and addiction while the mother has bipolar disorder and addiction. Throughout the series, the viewers see how alcoholism affects the family.
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Every money he makes he spends it in the Alibi bar. Most of the time he is sleeping in the street as a homeless, and sometimes disappears for months at a time. Furthermore, the exorbitant amount of alcohol leads to the development of alcohol cirrhosis. Alcohol Cirrhosis is a disease that damages the liver. As a result, he was unable to drink and was going through alcohol withdrawal. He tried to do everything that is possible to put alcohol in his body; alike putting the alcohol in his eyes, because he was vomiting blood whenever he put alcohol in his
Due to boundary issues, which is mirrored in the Gallagher family structure, family members can bond together to complete familial roles historically carried out by one family member (Boss, 1980). In this example, since Frank Gallagher is typically inebriated or under the influence to the point of unrecognition, the subsystem of Fiona, Ian, and Liam shoulder many interchanging duties within the family (especially in later episodes of the show). This collective effort (minus Frank) appears to have a foundation in one of the only family rules for the Gallagher clan: look out for each other no matter what. This is both an overt and covert rule, as it has not only been said verbally, but demonstrated through the actions of functioning family members (Wetchler and Hecker,
It is a fact of life that Alcoholism will distort the victim’s view of reality. With authors, they put parts of their personality and symptoms of their condition into their characters sometimes, flawed distortions included, with varying degrees
Alcoholism is a debilitating disease that affects an entire family. Alcoholism can cause physical and chemical changes in the diseased person, which in turn can lead to poor life choices. Jeannette's father was an alcoholic. While growing up in poverty, Jeannette's father made decisions that caused the family to suffer greatly. When Jeannette was a young child, Rex's alcoholism was better controlled. Jeannette's father could hold a job for months at a time and provide for his family the basic needs, such as food, required to survive. At one point it their lives, all the kids “lived the high life” when Rex brought home new bicycles for them. However, as Jeannette grew older, her father's disease took control of his life. Soon Jeannette's father began to lose his jobs more often, until he finally refused to maintain a job in any sense. Due to the lack of income, the family suffered greatly financially and emotionally. Jeannette and Brian were forced to eat out of garbage cans at school to combat their...
“Stitches” by David Small is a graphic novel where he visually describes his childhood. Small shows how he perceived his family relationships as a child and his own perspective of the world at the time. He clearly depicts his family’s dysfunctionality that prevented him the ability to display his self expression. Small encountered various events throughout his novel that added a different element to his understanding of relationships, specifically with his parents. As Small matured, these events played a critical role on his ultimate understanding of their complicated relationship.
After reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, a novel that exposes the short life of Chris McCandless and the clues to the mystery of his untimely death, we as readers can comprehend and fathom the actions and thoughts of Chris McCandless if we are able to perceive and distinguish the characteristics and results of a family that is dysfunctional. More specifically, a dysfunctional family in which there is an authoritarian parent that greatly impacts the life and actions of the other members in the family. This parent may employ a perfectionist attitude on the children which can be debilitating in the long run. The lack of proper parenting can force children to take up nontraditional roles to facilitate proper family functioning. This unnecessary
Everyone wants a perfect family, but nothing is ever perfect. The family in “Why I Live at the P.O.” is most definitely less than perfect. When Stella-Rondo returns to her old home after leaving her husband and bringing her small child who she claims is adopted, much conflict in the family increases. Stella-Rondo turns every family member living in the household against Sister, her older sister, and every family member betrays Sister by believing the lies Stella-Rondo tells about Sister to them. Through much turmoil and distress, Sister becomes so overwhelmed with the unending conflict that she feels she must leave her home and live at the post office. In “Why I Live at the P.O.,” Eudora Welty strongly implies that the function of the family can rapidly decline when family members refuse to do certain things they should and do certain things they should not through her use of point of view, symbolism, and setting.
Substance abuse affects the entire body, in The Black Cat it affects the narrators personality and his mood but alcohol can also have physical affects on the body. From the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, they state that alcohol can interfere with your brains communication pathways, and can also affects the way your brain works and looks in the long run. They state also along with what happens to the brain that it can disrupt mood and behavior, make it harder to think clear and move with coordinating skills. We can see how this applies to our narrator, he becomes angry and moody. He is thoughtless and doesn't care about his actions changing him from a caring, delightful human being to someone who could murder and sleep soundly through the night.
Shameless is a U.S TV show that has quickly gathered a cult-like following. The show focuses on a family, the Gallagher’s, and their fight to survive in the Southside of Chicago. The father is an alcoholic and relies on schemes to make money, forcing the children to learn to fend for themselves and rely on their friends in the neighborhood. One of these friends is a middle aged woman named Sheila Jackson, and it is very clear from the first time her character is introduced that she is definitely abnormal and has trouble functioning. Sheila suffers from Agoraphobia, fear and avoidance of situations which causes a person to feel unsafe. (Durand & Barlow, 2016) In Sheila’s case, her agoraphobia causes her to be unable to leave her home. This causes
Shameless is an American TV series based on the self-destructive and dysfunctional family of Frank Gallagher, a single father of six children. The program is set in Chicago and illustrates a story of an alcoholic father who spends his day getting drunk, while his kids learn to take care of themselves. Fiona, the eldest daughter, takes responsibility upon herself at the age of 15 to become the caretaker of the family both physically and financially. Although the Gallagher’s do not have the structure of a nuclear family, they still hold the functionalist perspective of having a matriarchal family system, with the sister leading the family. They fit with the functionalist theory, however not in the generic stance of having a mother and a father
Here are some facts that are related to Reyna’s story. Cirrhosis is one of the main alcohol effects. Cirrhosis happens when all the healthy cells are damaged and scar tissue replaces the healthy tissue. Dementia is caused lack of nutrients and vitamins. Depending of the stage of alcohol dementia, that is where you can see the different type of symptoms. Alcohol dementia symptoms can vary, people can experience mental confusion, agitation, paranoia, and involuntary eye problems. Weight gain is a big part of alcoholism. Our bodies can’t store calories from alcohol for later, like we would do with food calories. Alcohol makes people depressed, alcohol is a depressant. It’s known that people often drink alcohol when a stressful thing happens in their life. People often use alcohol as a “get away” from reality. Most people don’t know that after a few drink, you start getting depressed. Alcoholism affects not only the person that is getting intoxicated but everyone around them including family, friends, and children. It’s a fact that 4 in 10 child abusers have admitted to be under the influence when abusing a child. Those children that have been a victim of child abuse are most likely having an increased chance of behavioral and physical problems when they get
In this scenario Mr. Abdul is at high risk of chronic alcoholism mainly causing danger to his liver due to alcohol abuse in which healthy liver cells are replaced by scar tissue. Evidence showed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS] (2010) that alcoholic liver disease accounted fourteen percent of all deaths due to diseases of the digestive system and of alcoholic liver disease, more males than females died and seventy five percent majority of people aged betw...
To understand alcoholism, it must first be understood what this affliction is dependent on. Alcohol is a substance that is made by the fermentation of fruits, grains, or miscellaneous other organic materials. The chemical, alcohol, is a depressant and acts on every cell in the human body. Due to this, the central nervous system, along with the pleasure centers of the brain, are affected resulting in a feeling of euphoria and a sense of well being. After repeated exposure, the brain becomes dependent on this drug to unburden itself whenever it feels the compulsion. Several factors that contribute to alcoholism are the individual’s psychology, genetics, culture, and the individual’s response to physical pain.
This essay will examine my thoughts and those of David Sterrit on the critically acclaimed television show The Honeymooners. First, I will talk about the Honeymooners and it’s setting in postwar America. Secondly, the social and cultural issues the series portrayed. Next, would be the psychological perspective and the aesthetics of the show. Finally, the essay would conclude with my thoughts on how the Honeymooners were impacted by these aspects, but also how the show managed to leave a legacy in television today.
Several times in the novel he indulged in his drinking to the point of becoming
Alcoholism is a disease that affects many people in the United States today. It not only affects the alcoholic, but also their family, friends, co-workers, and eventually total strangers. The symptoms are many, as are the causes and the effects.