On Golden Pond is a movie about a man (Norman) growing older and facing the normal parts of aging such as hearing loss, decreased mobility and memory problems. Norman Thayer is a retired professor and Ethel his wife is a housewife with a bright personality, the couple decides to go to their summer cottage for vacation. The couple is visited by their daughter Chelsea who has a strained relationship with her father and her fiancé (Billy) and his son (Billy Jr.) Chelsea and Billy Sr. leave his son behind so that they can travel to Europe for vacation. Billy is not happy to stay behind and tells the elderly couple not to mess with him because he knows they don’t really want to keep him and he knows that he has just been dumped off. The couple …show more content…
In the movie Norman loses his way trying to find the old road to go pick strawberries for Ethel and becomes scared and frightened telling Ethel I ran to get back to you because I was scared and I needed to get back to you to feel safe. When Norman went out into the woods he did become easily confused and scared unfortunately for some elderly doing something routinely can become scary so easily without warrant. According to (Theris A. Touhy, 2008) “With increasing age and dependency the environment becomes a larger factor in maintaining a sense of security. Anxiety and insecurity increase when situations and conditions become unpredictable”. Norman found himself in a predictable situation starting off going down to a road he always knew but then the situation turned unpredictable so quick and he became and anxious to get back to what was normal and safe. Which happens so quick with the elderly one day the person will wake up cognitive and the next day the same routines can be foreign. It’s important for the care giver to stay the same regardless of the situation and get the patient back on the right track. Ethel after hearing Norman’s story let him know she would walk with him on the route and familiarize him with the road that had become
Through a few different phone calls and some schematics (like when Bob faked his death and acted as a Private I) Bob gets Leo's vacation address and the next moment he's in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. Standing in the middle of the street Bob shouts until he sees Leo. Annoyed and disturbed, Leo agrees to meet with him under one prerequisite; If they meet Bob must promise to go back to New York the following day. Waiting to meet with Leo, Bob becomes familiar with the owners of the diner who happen to hate Leo Marvin for stealing their dream home. The envious couple takes Bob to Leo's home and he arrives at the back door. Baffled, Leo tried to put things into perspective for Bob by writing him a perscription that reads "take a vacation from ...
He later allows the reader to visualise his town through a description of his street. "Each deadbeat no-hoper shithole lonely downtrodden house in Longlands Road, Nowheresville." This repetition of colloquial negative adjectives expresses Billy's depressing feelings about his home. Billy's undesirable view of his town along with other factors such as being abused by his father aid his decision to leave and discover what else life has to offer. Because of his adverse position Billy decides to leave his town to seek a better life. To do this he becomes a homeless runaway which is his first transition in the
In the movie, “On Golden Pond,” Norman who is the first character that was introduce, also the oldest and husband to Ethel. He is in his 80’s, doesn’t get along with his daughter Chelsea, and is in the last stage of Erikson’s theory name integrity versus despair. In the textbook, Exploring Lifespan Development by Laura E. Berk stated, “Integrity results from feeling that life was worth living as it happened. Older people who are
to it because his fate did not lead him there. Billy applied the fact that he had to accept
After that, they were moved to Dresden where no one would expect this city to be bombed, but sooner than imagined, nothing was left of the breathtakingly beautiful German city. Another hardship that Billy faced and contributed to his moral struggle and issues in the story is after he returns back home from Dresden s crazy firestorm, he gets engaged with Valencia and soon following is a nervous breakdown and recovers from it amazingly to have two children become more in depth in optometry to make more money to support his new family. To continue his life while it is on a high, Billy and his wife travel by airplane to an optometry conference in Montreal, resulting in a skull fracture for Billy and Valencia passes due to carbon monoxide poisoning on her way to see her husband at the hospital. Billy struggled through tough times and situations but kept going, even after he went mentally insane, even with the moral struggles and issues that were thrown out at him throughout his life span.
Billy is also traumatized by the extreme loss in his life. Everywhere he looks, he experiences great loss. First his father dies in a hunting accident, then he gets in a plane crash and everyone aboard dies but him, and while he is in the hospital recuperating, his wife dies of carbon monoxide poisoning. There is so much death surrounding his life, that it is no wonder Billy has not tried to kill himself yet.
a couple of them. They do have "a sense of play and humor," (405) and they
One of the ways Billy shows his ineffective ways of dealing with death is by using Risa Walker as sexual escape from his daily life. For example he shows himself using Risa Walker for pleasure when he admits, “So, instead, we said, “I love you,”, and let it go at that” (Banks 40). Spending time with Risa is daily escape for Billy. It is the one time of the day where he completely forgets about the bad things that have happened in his life and focusses on Risa. Billy does not really like her but is using her for his sexual pleasure after his wife is dead. It is not like they love each other it is more like they need each other because they are both burdened with stron...
“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge,” verbalizes Andrea Dworkin. Gender-roles have been ingrained in the every-day life of people all around the world since the beginnings of civilization. Both One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Hamlet portray typical female stereotypes in different time periods. Due to the representation of women in literature like Hamlet by William Shakespeare and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kessey, and pop-culture, evidence of classic gender-based stereotypes in a consistently patriarchal world are still blatantly obvious in today’s societies.
S. E. Hinton’s argument is given from the perspective of a 14 year old Greaser named Pony boy Curtis who is being raised by his older brothers Darrel and Soda pop. The theme of the Outsiders is no matter what side you may grow up on whether you are a Greaser or a Socs, that you all can still have the same problems, see the same solutions, and dream the same dreams. You are also able to see how his character grows up and matures during the various interactions throughout this book. The two gangs in the book are the Greasers and the Socs (socials) and honestly, even after reading the book the only reason they didn’t like each other is they both had assumptions about each other that really weren’t correct.
He goes well she couldn’t have gone far have you checked the pound she said no I was gone like a long time. He gave her directions to the pound and he told her they were probably already closed by now and she started walking and he said their defiantly closed and she yelled and he said well if the pound has her she will be there in the morning the pound never hurt anybody. Wendy goes to the security guard to ask him if he has a quarter to exchange of all her change to use the pay phone to call the pound and he insist for her to use his cell phone, he tells her nobody uses a pay phone now a day. She calls the pound and still no sign of Lucy. He lets her know the tow her car away so now she doesn’t have a place to sleep so she goes to the woods and sleeps get frightened by another homeless man runs back to town waits at Walgreens for the security guard to show up for his shift. Eight o clock rolls around he pulls up he walks up to her and tells her she looks a bit shaken she said I’ve been her since eight where have you been he told her it was his day off but told her she missed a call from the pound last night after she had left. He let her use his cell phone to call the pound then afterwards he handed her six dollars and told her to take it and don’t say anything and don’t let Holly see it and just to stop back around and just say
The book “The Outsiders” talks about two gangs and how they interact. “The Outsiders” is a book about Socs and Greasers. The story was written by S.E. Hinton, a person who hid her name because of gender. Further more, Hinton wrote the story about her person experience being between two gangs like the Greasers and Socs. Lastly, “The Outsiders” is told by Ponyboy Curtis, a Greaser, the main character of the story. There are two main themes in the story, “The Outsiders” which focus on the Greasers and the Socs and their differences in appearance and how they use violence to settle disagreements.
After Billy attempts to run her over, she telekinetically takes control of the vehicle and wrecks the car, killing them both. Sue Snell, who has been following Carrie's telepathic "broadcast," finds Carrie collapsed in the parking lot. The two have a brief, telepathic conversation. Though Carrie had believed that Sue and Tommy had set her up for the prank, Carrie realizes that Sue is innocent and has never really felt a real urge to humiliate her. Carrie then forgives Sue, and dies.
On Golden Pond is a movie centering around an elder couple Norman and Ethel who go up to their summer cottage over the summer of Norman's 80th birthday. This story deals with a lot of different issues including aging, love, and family dynamics in a very beautiful, and simple way allowing the audience to really relate the story because of its universal issues. Though there is so much to cover I will mainly be focusing Norman's mental abilities and Norman and Ethel’s relationship with Billy Ray.
It should not be a surprise that many people believe that a college degree is a necessity in today’s world. We are taught to believe this at a young age. The average citizen will not question this statement due to how competitive the job market has become, yet does graduating college guarantee more success down the road? Peter Brooks is a scholar at Princeton University and publisher of an essay that questions the value of college. He obviously agrees that college can help securing a job for the future, but questions the humanities about the education. He uses other published works, the pursuit of freedom, and draws on universal arguments that pull in the reader to assume the rest of his essay has valid reasons.