Hopelessness Screaming. Constant screaming. It's so loud and goes on for so long that you can't stand any more. And it gets louder. More persistent. More unrelenting. Louder and louder and louder until you can't see how to stop it. But you have to stop it. To stop the pain. To stop the hurt. To stop everything * * * "Room 309. Lily Halliwell. She's yours. Quite an interesting case. The notes are all here," he held up the clipboard he was carrying and handed it to Dr. Quinn. "Patricia, I don't need to tell you how important it is not to get involved. Be her friend. But don't make friends." Dr. Quinn nodded. "None of us have been able to get through to her. She refuses to eat; we have to feed her on a saline drip. Sometimes she tries to rip it out. She's too thin; it's quite a shock to many people. But she's not in any immediate danger." He sighed, "It's a sad sad case. Nobody quite knows why she's like this. She's been here since she was sixteen, and refuses to speak to anyone. We thought she needed more specific treatment. Just one person that she can learn to trust and identify with. That's why we got you in." "I'll do my best." They stopped outside a restricting metal door. Plain. Simple. No personality. Just '309' carved into it about two thirds of the way up. With no indication of what was going to be on the other side. "Lily lives in her own little world. And nobody can get her to leave" He opened the door. Dr. Quinn looked at the girl, her bony, angular features jutting out from her thin face, making her look almost skeletal. Her lifeless long black hair made an stark contrast with her pale skin, making her look deathly pale. And she was staring. Just staring into space with chocolate brown eyes that sat in hollow sockets in her gaunt face. Lily turned her head, and her blank
Her doctors suspected that her family’s dynamic and her upbringing may have contributed to the eating
The tone of Brendan Galvin’s poem “An Evel Knievel Elegy” is quickly established by the writer’s use of the word elegy. Elegy is defined to be a sad lyrical poem or song that expresses sorrow for someone who is dead. In this poem the writer chooses to reflect on some of the public events in the life of motorcycle stuntman, Evel Knievel. This free verse poem has no stanzas or rhyme scheme and there is no set rhythm. The poet’s use of the word “We” in the first line implies the speaker and the poet are one in the same.
In Richard Wright’s “Hunger”, a mother is forced with a difficult decision. Should she “baby” her child and prevent him from fighting, or should she encourage him to fight and “stand up like a man”? Unfortunately, the mother’s decision is a clear one. The mother tells the boy to stand up for himself and fight back.
“Stop, we need this food to pass by the week. You can’t be eating everything up like this.”
Pain is much easier to endure if we know that it has purpose. We can accept pain, if we know it will lead to a better outcome. Doctors tell us that pain is a friend. Without it, we would not know something is wrong. The nerves in the body radiate sensations when the body is harmed. This leads to seeking aid because we feel the pain of the injury.
This storyboard features frames taken from the 1985 film My Life as a Dog, directed by Lasse Hallström. I chose this sequence because I felt that it encapsulated much of the film’s complex story, as well as its themes of isolation and lonesomeness, into a short yet conscience passage spanning a variety of temporal and spatial locations. The film’s main character is featured at both his lowest and highest points during these few short minutes, and his personal reflection and recollection results in one of the more powerful scenes throughout the entire film. Featuring multiple glimpses into the complicated psyche of Ingemar as he struggles to understand his often-complicated life, My Life as a Dog clearly draws attention to its themes, and manages to bring the story full-circle. My Life as a Dog’s striking locale, unique characters, depressing circumstances, and relatively slow exposition contribute to its status as a ‘coming-of-age’ tale with a uniquely Scandinavian influence.
“ ‘There’s some folks who don’t eat like us,’ she whispered fiercely, ‘but you ain’t called
What gives a life meaning? Some might say that family, friends, religious values, or even money give meaning to their life, but what about the people who do not have any of these things? In Earnest Hemingway’s short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” two characters are portrayed as being in despair. These older gentlemen have explicit reasons for their grief however. Hemingway presents the central theme of despair throughout the story by the use of dialogue, images, and multiple viewpoints. Through the use of these three literary tools, Hemingway is able to reiterate that without family, friends, or values life is ultimately meaningless.
What the reader understands of the infidelity of Milan Kundera’s characters in The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a mere distraction from the real substance of the story and of the character’s real purpose. Kundera offers the reader a red herring and only through close examination can one dissect and abstract the true essence of each character’s thread that links them to one another in this story. For it is not clearly seen: in fact, it can not be seen at all. It is the fierce absence of the word commitment that is so blatantly seen in each individual, yet the word itself is buried so deeply inside of Tomas and Tereza that it takes an animal’s steadfast and unconditional love to make the meaning and understanding of commitment penetrate the surface.
Upon an initial read, both Mary Collier’s “The Washerwomen” and Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone show the servant as a figure who has little control over their own life and choices. In Collier’s poem, the washerwoman toils from early morning to late at night in order to make ends meet, all while dealing with the abuse of the mistress. In The Moonstone, servants are treated with more respect than the Washerwomen Collier describes, but they still have their own trials to contend with; for example, Rosanna Spearman dealt with the harsh reality of the workhouse and later is suspected of thievery. While in the beginning both works seemingly portray the servants as helpless in their own way, this helplessness only remains constant throughout “The Washerwomen”. Both Rosanna and the unnamed narrator from “The Washerwomen” lack hope for life to improve, however, they use this hopelessness in different ways; the washerwoman allows her hopelessness to control her, whereas
Failure to thrive (FTT) in children and infants, results from inadequate nutrition to maintain the growth and development. In many cases, FTT is either the result of possible medical issues that the mother or child may be experiencing. It However, in the extreme form, it could become fatal and many times this is the result of a caregiver or parent. In the paper, we will look at the causes, interventions and the impact that FTT may have on families (Shelov and Altmann, 2009, p.614).
There is a time in every person's life where a person loses hope, whether it is over reconciling an old friendship or over attempting to arrive back home to society. On numerous occasions, the audience observes the latter throughout the pilot of the television series called Lost. Further, the audience notices the scene in which Sayid discovers that the transceiver is receiving a signal and he utilizes it to attempt to communicate with someone off the island. In this scene, the theme of hopelessness is seen through the characters' verbal and non-verbal actions as well as the situations they are constantly being put into. This scene represents the thesis of the episode, which is someone can still overcome the situation they found themselves in even though that person feels hopeless.
The study takes into account the numerous negative effects both on the "Would be Lover," and the "Rejector"(p.377). The negative effects on the "Would be Lover" include, Heartbreak, Anger, and Humiliation, whereas the effects on the "Rejector" also include Anger but also Guilt and Scriptlessness. Unrequited love deals with a social relationship between two people many if not all of the eight overarching themes in social psychology are observable in the behavior of the couples.
A touching and sad novel, at once a compelling love story, philosophical text, and dialogue with Frederich Nietzsche -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being is all of these and more, perhaps most importantly a manifesto of embracing nihilism.
Salty tears of frustration streamed down my checks into the steaming mineral water that surrounded me. No one noticed; no one cared. I was just another stranger in the crowd drifting along in Glenwood Pool. There was only one difference; I was alone. Everyone else in the pool seemed to have someone, and everywhere I looked couples were kissing! If someone had been surveying the whole thing they would have found happiness in every corner ... then they would have seen me; sulking in my corner of the pool with fat, old, wrinkly, bald men swimming past me repeatedly.