Antonello is a 22 year old Italian migrant, newly married and in love, he and his wife Paolina are looking forward to building together. The novel opens with Antonello sitting on the banks of the Yarra River sketching the half-made Westgate Bridge. His mother wanted him to be an artist; she told him, ‘artists live forever’. However, like his father Antonello believes it is a man’s responsibility to work and support his family, and so when he leaves school he takes a job as an apprentice rigger. In 1968, he is employed to work on the Westgate Bridge, he is excited, he believes that the bridge will be more spectacular than the Sydney Harbour Bridge, that it is going to bring the city together and that he and the other bridge builders, will be remembered for years to come. For the first time since he arrived in Australia, he feels like the possibility of belonging. …show more content…
It is the first time they have seen each other since Ashleigh’s death. Antonello is torn between anger and pity. Jo is terrified but by the time she notices him she can’t run away. So they talk. They talk about Ashleigh and the accident and about guilt and grief and Jo tells Antonello she has Ashleigh’s diaries. She tells him Ashleigh hid them so her parents would not read them, and she doesn’t know what to do with them. Antonello convinces her the diaries belong to Ashleigh’s parents. Once the diaries are gone, Jo stops hearing Ashleigh’s voice in her head. Both Ashleigh’s family and Jo’s family have dreaded and yet longed for the court case. It is harrowing. Ashleigh’s family realises even if Jo is sent to prison it will not reduce their pain or their loss. They see the girl she is, they see their daughter’s best friend and while they want her punished they also feel sorry for her. Jo is sentenced and sent to prison. She accepts that the only path to redemption for her is to face the consequences of her
“Westbury Court” was told in a span of several years, when she was only a young teenager during the tragedy occurred and from then on, it had always haunted her. There is no way for her to entirely dismiss this incident from her memory other than moving forward by learning the consequence of being unmindful and realize the importance of “Sometimes it’s too late to say, ‘I shouldn’t have.’” If she is unable to do this, then she will have no choice but to consistently feel that guilty conscience of putting the two children in danger hanging over
No matter what age an individual is, society automatically deems a person to be an adult once they have a child. Unfortunately, Renee dealt with a lot of isolation, neglect, lack of emotional, physical, psychological support that would have helped her successfully transition into a new chapter in her life. Renee was treated like an independent and competent adult when in reality, she was in serious need of many support systems to educate and support her. As a social worker, Angie Martin’s actions within her practice created an ethical dilemma when she failed to maintain the best interest of her client, Jordan. Angie was expected to fulfill her role as a social worker by playing a vital role in coaching and educating Renee on how to care for Jordan. If there were frequent scheduled appointment in place, there would be enough evidence from Angie’s file on Jordan and Renee alone to decipher who should have been responsible for the death of Jordan. Frequent visits to the young mother and her child would have given Angie the opportunity to provide the courts with enough documentation to understand the case thoroughly to make a conviction, in needed, without dropping charges and dismissing the
Ashley Smith was a young girl that was placed in a juvenile detention centre at age 15 for throwing apples at a mail man. Her short sentence quickly extended into a life sentence because of so many infractions within the prison system. Ashley suffered from extreme mental health issues and was place in a psychiatric prison facility, however this facility was shown in the documentary to be corrupt and their actions with Ashley were extremely illegal. Furthermore, Ashley wasn’t given the proper help and treatment that she needed, instead she was physically and verbally abused by guards in the prison, and she ultimately passed away in the prison. Her death is still being debated about whether
The fourth Chapter of Estella Blackburn’s non fiction novel Broken lives “A Fathers Influence”, exposes readers to Eric Edgar Cooke and John Button’s time of adolescence. The chapter juxtaposes the two main characters too provide the reader with character analyses so later they may make judgment on the verdict. The chapter includes accounts of the crimes and punishments that Cooke contended with from 1948 to 1958. Cooke’s psychiatric assessment that he received during one of his first convictions and his life after conviction, marring Sally Lavin. It also exposes John Button’s crime of truancy, and his move from the UK to Australia.
Alameda has had a hard life as a young girl growing up, both of her parents were alcoholics. Alameda was a 16 year old minor who had a baby and dropped out of school, and then was unable to care for the infant. A case manager by the name of Barbara LaRosa was assigned to Alameda case. Barbara took on Alameda as her client and made a visit to her parents’ home, while making the visit she found Alameda dad incompetent, and could not get any information from him to help with his daughter well-being.
Finally the day of the trial arrives. They take the woman to the local church house which is being
In the novel El Puente “The Bridge” written by Ito Romo who was born and raised in Laredo, Texas when he wrote this novel he wanted to show people how is the life living in the border of United States and Mexico. The Bridge was taken place in a town of the Rio Grande the pure border of the United States and Mexico. Thirteen women of all ages and different from background react one day that the river turn crimson red. This story covers the problems of each women that are involve to the mysterious changing color of the river. As people also the women were surprise seeing the river turning a different color many news reporter from both sides were making this coverage for first time Rio Grande had turn different color.
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in this world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path,” (Agatha Christie, The Last Seance) represents the relationship between Tony and his mother, Al, who permits Tony to represent himself in an artistic fashion by allowing him to come to work with her at the Kitty Kat Club, a local club where his mother exotically dances at, so he can use her coworkers as models. In Gary Paulsen’s novella, the Glass Cafe, Tony, a 12 year old boy, whose drawings of his mother’s coworkers, who are strippers, are released in an art museum and the family is accused of child abuse and struggle to fight the court system. The primary setting is Tony’s
Many people wish that their life will have purpose and meaning. In The Bridges of Madison County, the Italian farmer’s wife Francesca faces the daunting fact that she may have spent her life doing something she hates- living as a farm wife instead of traveling the world. When her husband and kids go to the state fair, Francesca is left home alone. A national geographic photographer, Robert, asks her for directions and the two end up falling in love. Francesca is faced with the moral dilemma of leaving her family to enjoy a more exciting life, or to stay with her family and support them. This inner conflict haunts her, until she makes the ultimate decision to stay with her family despite her love for Robert. In the play The Bridges of Madison County, dramatic lighting and the prop of the telephone develop Francesca’s inner conflict of deciding whether to
Many of Brent’s careless and violent actions have caused negative consequences. Brent starts the ball of bad consequences rolling when he goes to a party with his friend Jake. The night starts off bad and gets worse from there. Brent begins to drink, clouding his mind and affecting his judgement. He goes up to his crush Brianna while under the influence and starts to chafe her, causing her to get mad and begin yelling at him. Brent becomes severely depressed and suicidal, and he decides to try and kill himself while supposedly driving home. This is the first of many corollaries that Brent experiences. After his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide, Brent is informed that he has killed Lea Zamora, an 18 year old girl who is a “...senior at Niles North High School, an honor student, ...volunteer at Resurrection Hospital. Why did he have to kill someone like that?”(35) When he hears this, Brent begins to feel a strong g...
Rather than explaining the specific thoughts of Ashleigh, the author explains the emotions that Ashleigh feels by adding detail to her responses in the situations that she faces. Later in the story, Ashleigh’s dad sat in a seat where he could monitor who came in the door, and Ashleigh’s “stomach was hurting in an old familiar way” because she knew that her dad was in trouble (40). This detail is not especially descriptive regarding Ashleigh’s feelings. The detail tells that Ashleigh feels nervous that her father is making potentially dangerous decisions. Soon after she notices that her dad is anxious about being discovered at the diner, Ashleigh’s dad tells her that he owes a group of people $200, and she has to try “to keep the panic out of [her] voice” (41).
When Deborah was only sixteen she became pregnant with her first child by Cheetah and boy she liked when she was younger. Cheetah and Deborah got married and then had their second child. Deborah became very unhappy in the marriage because Cheetah started drinking and doing drugs. He started abusing Deborah. Cheetah pushed Deborah so much she almost killed him if it wasn’t for Bobbette. Deborah’s brothers Sonny and Lawrence were doing well except for Joe. Joe was another case. Joe went to the military, and the family was hoping that would do him good; but he came out worse than when he went in. Joe was threatened and beaten up by a boy named Ivy. Joe was in so much rage he went and stabbed him and killed him. Joe eventually turned himself in to the law, was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced fifteen years in prison.
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Christina Rossetti's poem, “In An Artist’s Studio”, explores how men foster a need for control by creating unrealistic expectations for women through their fantasies. Through the use of repetition, contrast of imagery, and symbolism, Rossetti guides us through the gallery inside of an artist’s mind, portraying the fantasies that give him a sense of control over the women he creates.
The Tower Bridge, completed in 1894, is a combined suspension-bascule-draw bridge that spans the Thames River of London, England. Breaking ground in 1884, the bridge strongly embodies Victorian art design, with classical British influences and aspects of the Christian Church. The bridge has since become a symbol of London and the nation itself, being a famous tourist destination for those visiting the United Kingdom, whilst standing as a persona of the massive leap in bridge design and engineering.