The Grapes is a dysfunctional family who is living in the underprivileged rural area. The household consists of mother, Bonnie Grapes, who is a 54 year old jobless widow; Amy Grapes, the 34 year old eldest daughter among children, who is also still unemployed; Gilbert Grapes, the 24 year old eldest son who works at a nearby grocery shop; Arnie Grape, the younger brother of Gilbert Grapes who is autistic; and Ellen Grape, the youngest child, who is 16 years old and works at an ice-cream parlor. The two members of the family are no longer living with it including Larry Grapes who has left the family and is doing the job of a flight attendant, and Albert Grapes, who is the deceased father of the children; he committed suicide 14 years earlier. …show more content…
However, he is so young to handle such big responsibilities alone and feel himself buried under them. Similarly, Bonnie is not fulfilling her motherly duties, and she has become a burden for the family ( Wolz). On the other hand, Ardnie needs an extensive care and supervision that is not possible for a disturbed family, who has lost its balance after the death of the father. In these circumstances, it is important that the family should seek the aid of a professional person who can help and guide them in resolving their family issues which are negatively affecting attitudes and lives of the family. As a local human service professional, I can help the Grapes family by enhancing their motivational energy and make them understand about their particular roles in the family system through psycho education. It will also educate them to handle the stress of their surrounding issues. By counseling, I can assist Bonnie to effectively perform her duties and play her role in strengthening her family. Gilbert needs to consider him free from household duties and try to identify his personal identity that can give him inner peace and solace. Moreover, family needs to be emotionally trained, so they can effectively control the abrupt behavior of Ardnie. Whereas, Ardnie can also be taught to execute routine
Poetry is a part of literature that writers used to inform, educate, warn, or entertain the society. Although the field has developed over the years, the authenticity of poetry remains in its ability to produce a meaning using metaphors and allusions. In most cases, poems are a puzzle that the reader has to solve by applying rhetoric analysis to extract the meaning. Accordingly, poems are interesting pieces that activate the mind and explore the reader’s critical and analytical skills. In the poem “There are Delicacies,” Earle Birney utilizes a figurative language to express the theme and perfect the poem. Specifically, the poem addresses the frangibility of the human life by equating it to the flimsy of a watch. Precisely, the poet argues that a human life is short, and, therefore, everyone should complete his duties in perfection because once he or she dies, the chance is unavailable forever.
After watching the movie “What’s eating Gilbert Grape” it focuses more on Gilbert Grape than any other characters in the movie. Gilbert Grape is a young man who resides in a small community called Endora. Gilbert at the beginning of the movie states “Describing Endora is like dancing to no music”. Gilbert’s youngest brother Arnie is soon to be 18 years old and has a developmental disability that never was disclosed in the movie. Furthermore, Bonnie Gilbert’s mother has been locked in her own home since her husband committed suicide seven years ago. Moreover, Bonnie is at the stage of stagnation. She is over-weighted and doesn’t think of doing anything for herself or for any of her children. Therefore, leaving Gilbert with the full responsibility of caring for his family especially Arnie.
The Grapes of Wrath displays one of America’s greatest stumbles during the establishment of our country. The story follows a family hit with the struggles of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Drought, economic hardship, agricultural changes, and bank foreclosures rip the Joads from the quaint town of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, forcing them to take the dreadful journey across the country. Nevertheless, the Joads drag their feet along the trodden path, dragged on by an unassured perseverance. The Joads were driven by a burning fire of desperation, grounded by the hope promised by orange handbills laden with the deceitful lies of the rapacious. For the hopeless seek hope, an elusive destiny sated by lying promises. Steinbeck’s unique style of writing inculcates an abortive hope in the minds of the readers, instilling a lust for the untouched and unloved land which in turn reveals the impossibility of the “American Dream”; through complex symbols and innovative themes, Steinbeck also educates the ignorant, blinded by the vague history books that blot out the full intensity of the calamities and suffering endured by hopeful Okies on their treacherous journey into the unknown.
There are numerous symbols in The Grapes of Wrath that through analysis provide additional levels of insight and understanding into the novel. These symbols enhance the reader’s overall experience and provide a deeper meaning to the novel. They encourage readers to look beyond the surface to identify parallels in the text that foreshadow future events or represent certain ideas that the author is trying to stress. One of the major symbols of the entire book, is Tom himself. He represents the mental attitude experienced by the migrant families throughout the book. Tom accurately represents the hope burning inside of every migrant. As we learn about Tom throughout the novel, we come to know of the murder that he committed. Although it may not have been completely intentional, he is still forced to abandon his family. When he reunites with his family, he is immediately accepted back into their family, and he joins them as they begin to embark on their journey to California. He is with them every step of the way to California on Route 66 and constantly encourages them to persevere even through the difficult times. While in California, history is repeated, and Tom kills yet another man out of anger. He is forced to hide away and is of no use to the family anymore as he can no longer work. Later, he is forced to abandon his family yet again. This all directly correlates to the hope found in every migrant. It all began in Oklahoma, where hope hurt farmers during the Dust Bowl. After the hope had hurt them, it abandoned them. A quote in Chapter 1 of The Grapes of Wrath represents this, “The children stood near by, drawing figures in the dust with bare toes, and the children sent exploring sense out to see whether men and women would break...
In the book ,The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family was forced out of Oklahoma because there wasn´t work there anymore. Therefore they had to move to California for work. This means for them to go to California they have to take route 66. This route will take them through Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. First they had to go through Amarillo, Texas. They would have had to drive through a desert that has many mountains. The animals that are commonly seen and live here include: antelope, bighorn sheep,and many differnt kinds of wild pigs. They would have seen that before arriving in a town. Next they would have to go through New Mexico to get to Califonia. There are many animals that live here. Many of them are foxes, wolves, cyotes, and bocats.
There are plenty of fantastic inter-chapters, chapter five is another inter-chapter that discusses the tractors that would come to the land and plow through it. It destroys everything in its path. This chapter is an abstract conflict between the tenant farmer and the banks. The banks want to take over the land to make more money, but it is very difficult for the farmers to leave because the land has been settled by their grandfathers. One tenant farmers is so upset that he threatens to shoot the driver by saying “(he’d) be in the window with a rifle” (p. 51). Another chapter describes a tenant farmer that has to leave and is cheated into paying too much for a car.
The title of is movie is The Grapes of Wrath. In the Bible, ‘Grapes’ represent the people of Jesus. Jesus saw himself as a vine and the people who followed him were the foliage of the vine. So in this movie, ‘Grapes’ represent homeless people who have to leave their living land. There is one scene that grandfather wanna sit on the grapes and squeeze out the grape juice (John, 1940). This is an important symbol that the working class is seen as a basket of grapes and the capitalist pressure on their body, squeeze their labor force and the surplus value.
This movie takes place in Endora, a small town in Iowa, and it shows us the life of Gilbert Grape, who is 24 years old young man who takes care of his whole family. During the movie, we learned that Gilbert has to deal with some family issues, besides his own, and how he manages his time to do it. First, the movie introduces Arnie, Gilbert’s younger brother, who suffers from autism and it is noticeable that Gilbert looks after him for everything. After that, Gilbert starts talking about the rest of his family, and he mentions that he has two sisters and another brother who went away for college. Then, when he starts talking about his parents, we learned that his dad died and that his mom is an obese woman with depression as consequence of her
In the great movie What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, directed by Lasse Hallstrom, there is a great variety of things eating Gilbert. Gilbert is a young man who feels as if the weight of the world is on his shoulders and feels trapped in a life he can’t escape, no matter how hard he tries. All of Gilbert’s emotional problems are the effects of his mother, she is an overweight-depressed woman who puts a lot of guilt, anger, and sadness on Gilbert, which in return makes Gilbert feel despair, pressured, depressed, and trapped.
This story is about how white people benefit from being white on a daily. These advantages exist without white people’s consciousness of its manifestation, and it helps to maintain the racial hierarchy as the status quo. Moreover, “The Goophered Grapevine,” exposes how the ignorance of white people allows them to dominate over blacks. However, it is also a story trickery and deceit, a story of morality and survival with no moral compass. Nevertheless, the story is compelling, but there is no philosophical message about the intricacies of life, but it is a story of humor that is worth telling in a time when humor is
The movie utilized for this assignment was What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. This movie explored the life of the Grape family consisting of Gilbert, Ellen, Arnie, Bonnie and Amy. (Hallström, Blomquist, Matalon, Ohlsson, Teper 1993). The movie reveals the struggles that the family face while raising Arnie who had a chronic mental illness (Hallström et al., 1993). This paper will discuss the priority concerns and corresponding interventions that are pertinent for the Grape family based on thorough use of the Calgary family assessment model. The focus of this papers assessment on the family will be on the functional aspect; however the structural and developmental aspects have been assessed.
In spite of determination is the key to success, others would contradict and question why. In the story, “Against The Odds” Sully had determination, to save the people on the plane. Determination matters for everyone because it motivates others to reach their goal. For instance in, “The Grapes Of Wrath” the farmers had the determination to move through the disasters such as blackouts, thick air, and dust storms. The determination is essential for those who are successful like Sully, Bethany Hamilton, Billy Coleman, Albert Einstein, and J.K Rowling. To begin being successful is important for all people that want to aim to their goal.
The Grapes are a family living in a rural and economically depressed community. The members of the Grape family presently residing in the familial home consists of biological birth mother Bonnie Grape, who is unemployed and 54 years of age. Amy Grape, the eldest child, Unemployed and currently 34 years of age. Gilbert Grape, the eldest male sibling who is employed at a local grocery store and is currently 24, years of age. Arnie Grape is Gilbert’s younger brother and is presently turning 18 years of age. Arnie reaching his 18th birthday is considered to be somewhat of a triumph by the Grape family, as Arnie suffers from a debilitating medical condition that has not only kept him from achieving age appropriate developmental milestones but also threatens to shorten his life expectancy considerably. The youngest sibling Ellen Grape is currently employed at a local ice cream parlor and is 16 years of age.
The movie What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? tells the story of a family in a small town in Iowa. The main character is Gilbert Grape, the oldest of the four children and the de facto caretaker of the family. Gilbert lives with his mother, Bonnie, his two sisters, Amy and Ellen, and a developmentally disabled younger brother named Arnie. Arnie requires constant supervision and the bulk of those duties fall to Gilbert. Bonnie Grape, is a morbidly obese women who has not left the house in seven years and is still reeling from the suicide of her husband. She lives and sleeps on the couch, spending all her time eating, watching television and smoking. She rarely interacts with the family except to chastise one of the children, usually Gilbert, about something Arnie is doing. Bonnie put on the weight after
These stressors include his job, townspeople, and the police department. In addition, his personal relationships and family members also contribute to his stress. Gilbert works as a grocer at Lamson’s Grocery. This was originally the only grocery in the town but recently Foodland opened and has diverted business away from the mom-and-pop shop where Gilbert works. This grocery chain increases Gilbert’s financial stress because of his decreased income. Although his job is a negative stressor, it is also positive because the arrangement allows Gilbert to bring his younger brother, Arnie, to work with him. This provides safety and a sense of security for Gilbert. The townspeople throughout the movie represent negative stress by making fun of Bonnie’s (Momma) weight. In addition to the pointing and laughing, the children in the community try to sneak a peek through the window to see how she physically looks. It appears as if she serves as a source of entertainment for the other children. The police department does not seem to me adequately educated or trained to deal with Arnie who suffers from autism. They repeatedly threaten to put Arnie in jail for having climbed the water tower. It is important to recognize that this places stress on the police department. Becky, Gilbert’s unofficial girlfriend, serves as both a positive and a negative stressor. She encourages Gilbert to provide care not only to his family