I agree with you when you say that Jeannette and her siblings made the right decision by moving to New York. I also would have done the same, although it would be challenging. You make excellent points concerning the factors that contribute to alcoholism. Like you said, Rex uses alcoholism as a coping method to numb the pain that resulted from his childhood abuse. Without the sadness and grief that arose from that incident, he may not have felt the need to resort to alcohol as an escape. In the memoir, Rex repeatedly provides Jeannette and her siblings with false hope for a better life. For example, he chains himself to a bed for a week in an attempt to fulfill the promise that he made to Jeannette to stop drinking, he promises to build a glass
Jeanne de Jussie, a dedicated Catholic nun, recorded events that took place in Geneva during the Reformation as the official chronicler for the Saint Clare convent. Although littered with biases, Jeanne de Jussie’s experiences reflect broader trends during the Reformation; therefore, The Short Chronicle is a valid source and not merely a personal attack against the Protestants. Her experiences and beliefs, including those concerning celibacy, reflected those of many members of the Catholic Church during the Reformation. Also, her categorization of Protestants as ‘heretics’ was consistent with the practices of the Catholic Church. Although biased, her fears about Protestant views on celibacy and marriage were legitimate and consistent with
In the book, The Glass Castle, I feel each character I can identify with in some way, whether that is through actions, thoughts, or events. However, there is one character that stood out to me and that is Jeannette. She chronicled her life and her dysfunctional upbringing along with the struggles and challenges that go along with it. No matter what she went through, she never allowed herself to feel defeated or depressed. She saw her situation for what it was and found ways to improve her condition through pure determination. There are many similarities I feel we both share such as, we both were taught independence from an early age, we are both middle children, and we are both carefree and intelligent. Though, the main contrast between Jeannette and I are that we are both timid, positive, and forgiving.
When Erma died, he spent four days in Junior’s Bar. Erma was his mother. The children were walking home from Erma’s funeral with their parents. Their father Rex was so distraught that he once again resorted to alcohol. When they were walking, Jeannette and her siblings noticed “He turned down the street to Junior’s bar. We all watched him go… Dad just kept walking” (Walls 181). Rex’s family is ashamed of him for drinking, but they rarely make an effort to help him stop. Alcoholism is a disease that is deadly for many people. It is not something that you can conclude without help. Rex took all of what money the Walls family did have and spent it on alcohol. This was a recurring event. This lead the young children to fend for themselves. They often had to go days without food but if they did have food, it was sometimes inedible. In many cases, they were pilfering through other people’s belongings. Substance abuse is dangerous in a sense that the substance itself causes many life threatening conditions. It can also be dangerous because people will do anything they can to be able to abuse again. This includes taking money that could be used on a week of groceries or to heat a home during
In the end it seems as though there is no real moral or lesson to be learned. She wasn't really an addict; she just liked to drink. No long recovery, no epiphany. No treatment, no withdrawal problems. No lasting health issues. No real permanent problems in the end.
Is the world one see around them really how it is or are they being deceived?
In the book The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley, the book is a twist to what readers would expect. In the story, a girl name Alette is chosen for a certain mission and she goes in not knowing what to expect. Alette goes on these journey and face with challenges that she must overcome, but it is more about the destination then than the journey itself. One of the important theme throughout the book is transformation.
“When Dad went crazy, we all had our own ways of shutting down and closing off…” (Walls 115).In Jeannette Walls memoir, The Glass Castle, Walls enlightens the reader on what it’s like to grow up with a parent who is dependent on alcohol, Rex Walls, Jeannette’s father, was an alcoholic. Psychologically, having a parent who abuses alcohol is the worst thing for a child. The psychological state of these children can get of poorer quality as they grow up. Leaving the child with psychiatric disorders in the future and or being an alcoholic as well.
In fact, Jeannette said that she spent so much time with friends that she almost didn’t feel like a member of their family (206, Walls). At first Maureen spent the night at friends houses because she didn’t feel safe at her house. The big incident that made her sleep somewhere else was that a rat was in their house and she swore that that rat was near her and when she turned on the light she was proven right (156, Walls). And after a while, Maureen wouldn’t just go over to sleepover at friends houses, she’d go there earlier and eat dinner with her friend’s family (173, Walls). It was no secret that the Walls didn’t have food often, and when Maureen saw an opportunity to eat a hot meal she took it. Because she spent so little time with her family, she didn’t grow up like her siblings did. In each person you have a fight or flight reflex, and while her siblings took the fight reflex for a while, Maureen chose the flight reflex. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I think because she didn’t stay and fight she doesn’t know how to deal with her parents in New York like her brothers and sisters
I think one of the most disappointing parts of the movie was when they decided to move to West Virginia, the screenwriters completely switch the order of events. Instead of them moving in with Rex’s mother they just move into the home they were supposed to find later in the memoir due to getting banished, Rex explaining to the children “you did wrong.. And now we’ve all been banished” (pg 149), it was a powerful scene and it was left out. The movie also does not portray the extremely poor conditions they were surrounded by; instead of the walk and observation of the poor conditions in the memoir it was replaced with a car drive up to the house, leaving details out like, “The houses up here were shabbier than the brick houses lower down in the valley. They were made out of wood, with lopsided porches, sagging roofs, rusted-out gutters, and balding tar paper or asphalt shingles slowly but surely parting from the under wall” (pg 150). When arriving to the house it is big and has an upstairs, which is the opposite of the memoir, which describes that, “Inside were three rooms, each about ten feet by ten feet, facing onto the front porch. The house had no bathroom…” (pg 153). And a significant fight from earlier in the book between Rosemary and Rex, where Rex may have or may not have tossed Rosemary out of a window, was thrown in at this part of the movie
The character of Harold Mitchell fundamentally illustrates the consequences of deceit and illusion in Blanche Dubois’ life. In her quest to restore respect in society, Blanche is impelled to pursue the hand of Mitch. Moreover, the significance of selecting Mitchell as her man revolves around the fact that he conforms to the collective consciousness of modern society. Her idiosyncrasies and unorthodox presence in society dawn upon her as she makes haste to improve her general perception from those surrounding her. Consequently, Mitchell plays an instrumental role in preventing Dubois’ descent into insanity because he bridges the gap between her intrinsic self and her false persona by serving as an empathetic figure capable of understanding
Natalia Chase isn't ready to have her babies, even after a tough eight months. When her doctor admits her to the hospital with concerns over a strange echo with the babies' heartbeats, she faces the most terrifying moment of her life. Logan begs her to let him change her to a lion so she'll be stronger through the delivery, but Nat fears losing herself before she even gets a chance to meet her kids. As the family gathers at the hospital and surprise after surprise wreaks havoc with all of Nat's careful planning, she'll have to face a heart-wrenching choice: save her kids or lose everything else, maybe even her life.
I, Ernest Defarge, am here today to testify in the case of Thérèse Defarge. I also go by the title of Monsieur Defarge. I am currently a citizen of France and live in the county, Saint Antoine. I own a wine shop in Saint Antoine, and before this wine shop, I used to be a servant to the great Dr. Manette. I look up to him so much that I do things, which will please him, such as not taking money from the aristocracy, being loyal to the people, and doing things that are right for every human being in France. I am a great leader, and my storming of the Bastille showed this. I will, always, try my best to do necessary actions to help the revolution. The defendant Thérèse Defarge is, in fact, my wife. I have known her for a great deal of time now,
When Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is called to The Louvre on account of Jacques Sauniere's death, he is greeted by a carefully placed arrangement of clues the curator all so strategically left behind. One clue was an anagrammed grouping of the Fibonacci sequence. At first glance the structure seems like randomly strewn numbers, but Langdon knows that Sauniere is a smart man, and that they must mean something. Before he can possibly make any sense of it, Agent Sophie Neveu from the DCPJ's Cryptology Department arrives to break the code. While at the museum she reveals privately to Langdon that they are both in great danger. The Judicial Police think that Langdon has killed Sauniere - Sophie's grandfather.
After the fire at Coulibri, Antoinette endures a rough time in her life, for her mother rejects her and Pierre dies. Antoinette’s mind is full of fear, sadness and instability. This trauma is clearly shown in the convent that she attends for the remainder of her adolescence. Upon entry, Antoinette takes immediate note and puts extra emphasis on describing the stones in the school. Taking note of the “cool stoneflagged room” (Rhys, 28) and providing this as the initial description suggests that she is at first uncomfortable. Having just been aggressively confronted by two residents of the island Antoinette is shaken (Rhys, 27). In order to further convey Antoinette’s distrustful mind, Rhys describes the uninviting and cold stones of the convent thus allowing the reader to more deeply
Death: the action or act of dying or being killed. In the novel, And then There Were None, by Agatha Christie, many horrific events occurred. Christie created a world where one unknown killer was the cause of ten murders, including himself, and hid his identity by lurking around in the shadows of the famous Soldier Island, killing one victim after another. Here today in this special interview, will be Miss Vera Claythorne, Mr. Philip Lombard, and Mr. Justice Wargrave. These three characters are all very unique in this novel and portray many different characteristics. They all struggled with their own problems how they saw best fit and of course fought their battles to the best of their abilities.