In the novel, Turtles All The Way Down by John Green there are two types of conflict: person vs. self, and person vs. person. Aza Holmes is the main character in the novel and she experiences conflict with herself everyday. She has high levels of anxiety and outbursts of overthinking which she calls a ‘thought spiral’. In the beginning of the book, Aza introduces her thought process. She hears her stomach making noise in the cafeteria and immediately thinks it’s “Clostridium difficile, which can be fatal” this line demonstrates how the slightest changes to her body send her down a never ending spiral of nerves (Green, p. 4). The thoughts alone aren’t what consume her daily life, ever since she was little she “pressed [her] right thumbnail into the finger pad of [her] middle finger, now there is this weird callus over [her] fingerprint” (Green, p. 5). …show more content…
She opens the callus, drains the ‘infection’ puts a drop of hand sanitizer on it and applies another bandaid. Her over exaggerated thought spiral has been a conflict she’s had to fight ever since she was a little girl. It’s not easy to dismiss the thoughts because “the thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely” (Green, p. 7). Aza’s friend, Davis—who she is slowly falling in love with—has conflict with another person. That person is his Dad. His dad “was about to be arrested for bribery… but the night before the raid he disappeared” (Green, p. 4). Davis and his father have never been close because his dad is extremely wealthy and that's all he seemed to care about. When Aza found out, she reached out to her old friend Davis to ask how he felt about it, his response was: “my dad’s a huge shitbag. He skipped town before getting arrested because he’s a coward” (Green, p.
In the Grapes of Wrath, a novel by John Steinbeck, there are many examples of symbolism. One of the most prominent symbols found in this book is the turtle seen in chapter three. This turtle is symbolic of three things: the Joads and their journey west, Tom Joad himself, and the promise of new life. First, here’s a little background information on the turtle. This land turtle was somewhere to go. Where than is, no one knows, except perhaps John Steinbeck. To get there the turtle decides to take the perilous journey down a dusty dirt road that stretches along the quiet countryside. What could happen? A lot more than one might think. In fact, the turtle faces quite a few challenged ranging from pesky insects, to ledges, to even cars. But, the thing that makes this turtle special is that he never gives up (Pages
Betrayal is being disloyal to others and even oneself, therefore betrayal can cause many emotional fallouts and baggage within relationships. In the story, The World on the Turtle's Back, betrayal is a huge factor in how the story plays out, as it is in the song The Letter by Kehlani, Genesis 4:1-16, and Matthew 26:14-16 . Three ways in which betrayal is portrayed in the story, the song, and the Bible is by the actions people take to one another, disconnections in relationships that lead to betrayal, and emotional baggage.
An example of this internal conflict that the brother faces is when the brother must find a way to deal with the embarrassment he feels because of Doodle’s disabilities not allowing him to fit into society. One example of the brother’s internal conflict is when, the brother wants to change Doodle so that he will not ashamed when he goes to school, “ Do you want to be different from everyone else when you go to school?” (Hurst). This reveals the author’s message because it shows that he had conflict internally and that his cruelty is fueled by love because he does not want his brother to face
Throughout the animal kingdom, adaptations take place continuously and even the smallest of changes can leave a significant impact. Examples can be seen within any plant or animal. One example would include sea turtles, specifically, the Loggerhead Turtles. These turtles are native to the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans as well as the Mediterranean Sea (Deurmit L 2007). They thrive in either temperate or tropical climates and can live in a myriad of biomes (Deurmit L 2007). These biomes include the pelagic, reef, coastal, and brackish water (Deurmit L 2007). Loggerhead turtles are omnivores and can eat anything from insects to aquatic crustaceans, to macro algae (Deurmit L 2007). According to Deurmit (2007) Caretta caretta is classified into Animalia Kingdom, Chordata Phylum, Vertebrata Subphylum, Reptilian Class, Testudines’ Order,
It is clear that in their marriage, her husband makes her decisions on her behalf and she is expected to simply follow blindly. Their relationship parallels the roles that men and women play in marriage when the story was written. The narrator’s feelings of powerlessness and submissive attitudes toward her husband are revealing of the negative effects of gender roles. John’s decision to treat the narrator with rest cure leads to the narrator experiencing an intense feeling of isolation, and this isolation caused her mental decline. Her descent into madness is at its peak when she grows tears the wallpaper and is convinced that “[she’s] got out at last, in spite of [John] and Jennie… and [they] can’t put her back!”
In the article Daydreams of What You’d Rather Be by Lance Morrow; a Harvard graduate who is a contributor to Time, proposes the idea that there is a distinct relationship in-between the self and the “anti-self”. He exposes this idea throughout by using different examples that involve numerous people, and also by using different comparisons to make his writing more relatable and more easily understood. The methods that Morrow uses to support the claims that he is making and to help uncover that message that is being emphasized in the article are essential to the meaning and the understanding. In Daydreams of What You’d Rather Be, Lance Morrow validates his main idea that underneath every person there is an “anti-self” that is just begging to be let out; by using examples of different people and situations, but also by using different comparisons and going as far as to explaining his true thoughts on this person that everyone has inside of them.
Nature has been an important role in numerous stories in and past and present. The early myths and creation stories had the natural world as characters or playing an important part of the plot of the story. Strong examples of how nature has been an important part of stories are stories written for children and origin myth passed down through the generations. Just like many early creation stories of western civilizations nature plays a huge part in the origin myths of the Native Americans. Native Americans showed a strong connection to nature when they used parts of nature in their origin myths, examples can be found in "The Earth on Turtle's Back," when the animals helped save the sky chief’s wife, "When Grizzlies Walked Upright," how the first
“Myths can be described as sacred tales that help man understand the world and his place in it. Myths often try to respond to various eternal questions, such as the origin of the existence of evil, and also, through the archetypes that they provide, seem to give guidance to every generation,” as an Access teacher states, on enotes.com. During one’s education, grammar school through college, we fortunately get the opportunity to be exposed to countless myths and also numerous mythological creatures that we have never heard of before. Personally it was quite the challenge to relate some of these mythological tales into my own life. We don’t usually realize or understand, at that exact time of hearing or reading the creation myth, their drive
She attempts to look better, for the sake of her husband, her conscious mind wants to be better to get out of that place. Her unconscious mind is beginning to connect the wallpaper with a mental trap. In the middle of the story the journal entry shows how the narrator sees herself like the house. Outside looks calm and beautiful inside there is chaos like the wallpaper in the dreaded room. Her thoughts are becoming more chaotic just like the wallpaper. There is no challenge in her live she is just supposed to rest and heal, but she spends the time contemplating the wallpaper. Looking at it day in and day out is unconsciously getting into her thoughts and bringing the chaos out into her consciousness. The narrator is confused because she believes that her husband loves her, but, he is controlling her in ways that she believes not to be helpful. She wants to do more with her life and thinks that the activity will help her feel better. There is a big discrepancy between what John believes and what the narrator believes. He wants her to rest, she wants to be active. He says it is all because he loves her but, she is not listened to and wants to make changes. . She is trying to follow the rules and be the person that her husband, John wants her to be. She consciously sees that she seems to give into the id more and more. The narrator wants her superego to be dominate so her actions don’t show her internal chaos. because she does not want to go to a doctor. The couple are still at odds when she admits to feeling worse and John insist she is doing better and belittles her. The doctor named in the text, Weir Mitchel, is a doctor that Gilman was treated by in real life. She has stated that she wanted to change the way he practiced medicine (Placeholder1). The story shows the chaos in the narrator’s
The conflict never resolves itself. Her goal and desires die with her after her attempt to grasp them. For a few days she may have felt fulfilled but it was short lived and led to her downfall.
...onscious self is obsessed with an evil, the conscious must overcome it or a paradox will result in which both selves parish.
At the end of the story, Stephens receives a call that is a call he hoped he would never have received. His Zoe has AIDs, and there is nothing he can do to make this better. Stephens talks Zoe into coming to his home to talk, and give her more money, but he has the hopes that she will stay and let her daddy care for her while he still can. Whether Zoe stays, or not this disorder Stephens suffers from will not go away without getting help for himself. He will keep living within the same vicious cycle of being the victim of his own game unless he chooses to break
There was nothing left to say to him or hear from him. She walked out of the house that night and decided it was better to live on these horrible streets than to live with him in this state. Almost two months later, after living with anyone that would put her up for the night, she came to realize there was something wrong with her. She went to the emergency room. Truth be told, she was terrified that she had contracted some sexually transmitted disease.
After sharing background stories about each other’s families, Chika is asked by the woman to evaluate an injury the woman had. The woman asked Chika if she studied medicine in school. Chika responded positively although thinking to herself how she felt attacks of uncertainty in medicinal school. As the woman pulls out her breast from her blouse, she tells Chika to take a look at her dry, bruised nipple. She explains to her that she feels a burning sensation.
If you have ever wondered what it is like to have an obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety, then this is the book to read. The main character in Turtles all the way down by John Green is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in Indianapolis named Aza Holmes. Aza Holmes is just like the typical teenage girl with a couple of twists. She attends high school and hangs out with her friend’s, but she also wonders if she is real or not and as a child, developed a compulsion to test if she is real. She tests this theory by pressing her thumbnail into the pad of her middle finger, opening a cut that she believes proves her reality. Aza gets bad anxiety through her fear of bacteria. This fear of bacteria sends Aza into what she calls “thought spirals”, in which her fearful thoughts take over her mind and send her into panic. Aza does have medication to help control her so called thought spirals, but she resists on taking it regularly because she doesn’t like feeling that something else is determining who she is and how she behaves.