“The Backward Fall” by Jason Helmandollar is a sad but at the same time a beautiful love story of two characters’ mom and dad. In this short story, the protagonist (mom) faces an internal conflict by suffering from memory problems that causes her to forget easily. First, at sixty-two years she doesn’t seem to have a severe memory problem. She only forgets small things like lyrics to her song that she wrote some years ago. But, as the story continues mom’s problems worsen. She for instance forgets what she wanted to tell her husband in just a second. But her problems don’t stop from here, we see later in the story she talks of going to the Grand Canyon. But, they had already visited the Grand Canyon many years ago. Even after a slight correction …show more content…
George doesn’t abandon mom but demonstrates a character of somebody driven with the motivation of true love. Dad is ready to help mom experience happiness even through her illness. For example, when mom couldn’t remember the lyrics of her song she wanted to sing. Mom says this to dad, “I can’t remember how the second verse starts” (Helmandollar 1). Dad then reminds mom the lyrics of the song. By helping her remember how the song started illustrates how much dad loved her wife and she was ready to help her enjoy singing her song. This helps her create happy memories. Dad also demonstrated the motivation for love for mom by being always there to help her deal with her health conditions. When mom forgets her husband and says, “Stop calling me that!..........You’re just a dirty old man” (Helmandollar 5). Dad instead asks “Don’t you recognize me? It’s me, George” (Helmandollar 5). It is not easy to handle such a situation especially after taking care of mom during all that time. This demonstrates that despite the problems, George understood what her wife went through and as a result of the motivation to show her how much she loves her she puts her
Jordan Sonnenblick is an American writer of young-adult fiction, who has written many stories. Falling Over Sideways is a well-known book written by the same author as Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie. Falling Over SIdeways was written and published in October of 2016, similar to Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, it is based on Claire, a thirteen year old girl, that is in the eighth grade. Sonnenblick creates a dramatic story about Claire, who has multiple problems and hardships including a prominent zit appearing on the first day of school and watching her friends at dance school move into advanced levels while she stays behind. But these problems start to fade, as one morning her father has a stroke, causing her family and her life to change forever, and lets not forget she starts her period. The author’s main purpose of writing this story is to show younger readers that even if there's a sense of abandonment, there’s always someone there who loves and cares.
Behind George’s impulsive enigma you can see just how much he wants to be accepted and make friends. Isolated and lonely, George bullied children who were smaller than him and appeared as ‘easy targets’ because deep down he didn't feel good about himself and wanted to be accepted due to his learning difficulties and other assorted problems. George readily agrees to the invitation to Sam’s birthday, seeing the trip as an opportunity to finally make friends. You see a glimpse of his caring nature when he gives Sam a birthday present, using all his savings to purchase him a water pistol, and ensuring he likes it. However, he was unaware of the true purpose of his invitation by the resentful Sam, forcing you to sympathise further on George and expressing his innocence and desperation to form friendships. This is further demonstrated later in the film where he lies and tells the group that he smokes cigarettes in hopes to be accepted in the group and appear as ‘cool’ by doing the things they
1. When Mary and George were walking and talking about what they wanted to do in the future, she broke a window to wish for the marriage between them and to live a happy life together. Even though after that moment they didn’t talk much to each other, she still kept that wish even though she could have gone to a rich guy named Sam. If she wouldn’t have kept that wish and married someone else then George then her life and George’s life would have been very different.
As Rob’s Dad gets to hear everything that Rob was trying to hold in, from the loss of his Mom. His Dad understands and has the same problem holding back his emotions of the loss of his wife, and how it impacts Robs
George was motivated by the urge to do the right thing, and by helping everyone. When he was in depression he realized that his family, friends and town people were in dire in need of his help he wanted to live again.
For this paper I read the novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards, this novel is told in the span of 25 years, it is told by two characters David and Caroline, who have different lives but are connected through one past decision. The story starts in 1964, when a blizzard happens causing the main character, Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. During the delivery, the son named Paul is fine but the daughter named Phoebe has something wrong with her. The doctor realizes that the daughter has Down syndrome, he is shocked and remembers his own childhood when his sister was always sick, her dying at an early age and how that affected his mother. He didn’t want that to happen to his wife, so David told the nurse to bring Phoebe to an institution, so that his wife wouldn’t suffer.
George Lopez said in the Lopez, George article that, “As hard as I try, I can’t think of a single happy memory of my mom” (2). George Lopez had a very bad lookout on life as a whole from a very young age. Most of Lopez’s work comes from feeling of loneliness and abandonment since that’s all he knew. George said in the Lopez, George article that his “grandparents were not bad people, but they didn’t live or have an enjoyable life, and she made things extremely hard on me” (2).
In the philosophical novel The Fall by Albert Camus power is a major theme that comprises the novel and guides the life of the main character, Jean-Baptiste Clamence. To Jean-Baptiste having power over others is a necessity and key component to how he leads his life. The main way that Jean-Baptiste feels that power over others is when he is judging them. He also ties power to physically being above someone, such as on top of a mountain, and by taking a God-like position of authority over others.
Laura's mother and brother shared some of her fragile tendencies. Amanda, Laura's mother, continually lives in the past. Her reflection of her teenage years continually haunts Laura. To the point where she forces her to see a "Gentleman Caller" it is then that Tom reminds his mother not to "expect to much of Laura" she is unlike other girls. But Laura's mother has not allowed herself nor the rest of the family to see Laura as different from other girls. Amanda continually lives in the past when she was young a pretty and lived on the plantation. Laura must feel she can never live up to her mothers expectations. Her mother continually reminds her of her differences throughout the play.
Do we live in an imperfect world or just a world full of human flaws? In The Fall, by Noble Prize Winner Albert Camus, it gives readers a glimpse into how citizens have the desire to discover the meaning of life. Camus asserts existentialism in the book and asks the question of do you have a purpose in life. Camus expresses the philosophy of the absurd, which means that all men are guilty of something, whether it is by our actions or inactions. The crimes we fail to stop, are just as bad as committing the crimes ourselves. The book draws attention to a point in your life where you have an understanding that you are a person with flaws, faced with your personal responsibility from your actions and significantly too,
Growing up, George had a wild childhood. His parents owned a tavern, which they lived above, and they were rarely around to give George the guidance a small child needs. George felt little love from his parents. He came from a poor family and sometimes didn't even know where his next meal was coming from.
He stated that, "She's going to move, stay there until the day after tomorrow, and then we're going to move away." George thought that by moving out West, where Myrtle wanted to go in the beginning, would solve everything. Before the move could be made, Myrtle was killed; it is here where George's love is shown most. George becomes extremely upset after Myrtle's death. Wilson was reduced to a man "deranged by grief." Because of the death of his wife, George decides to murder who he believes her killer to be and then commits suicide by shooting himself. Thoughout the novel there are many incidents involving love and greed.
The three family members are adults at the time of this play, struggling to be individuals, and yet, very enmeshed and codependent with one another. The overbearing and domineering mother, Amanda, spends much of her time reliving the past; her days as a southern belle. She desperately hopes her daughter, Laura, will marry. Laura suffers from an inferiority complex partially due to a minor disability that she perceives as a major one. She has difficulty coping with life outside of the apartment, her cherished glass animal collection, and her Victrola. Tom, Amanda's son, resents his role as provider for the family, yearns to be free from him mother's constant nagging, and longs to pursue his own dreams. A futile attempt is made to match Laura with Jim, an old high school acquaintance and one of Tom's work mates.
His parents divorced early in his life. When his mom remarried, it didn’t last long. George came home to find all of his step-fathers stuff gone. Rameck’s mother was involved in the drinking and smoking pot scene.... ...
Amanda, like Laura, wants Tom to strive for is full potential and be all that he can be. Their relationship is strained because Tom reminds Amanda of her husband. He just does not quite fit in with the rest of his family. He aspires to travel and see the world. He does not want to just get by; he wants to live and experience life. Amanda sees this in his and acknowledges that he has the same flighty attitude as his father. Mrs Wingfield snaps at her son and exclaims, “Oh, I can see the handwriting on the wall as plain as I see the nose in front of my face! It’s terrifying! More and more you remind me of your father! He was out all hours without explanation—Then left! Goodbye! And me with the bag to hold. He is the major breadwinner in the family. He brings in all the income and if he leaves Amanda and Laura will not be able to make it. Amanda takes it upon herself to mold Tom into the man that she wished her husband was. Of course, he takes it upon himself to be anything but. He spends every night at the movies. Tom uses the movies as a form of escape form his home life and satisfy his urge to leave and explore. He says, “People go to the movies instead of moving.” Tom is more of a realist compared to Amanda’s hopeful view on life. He knows life will never measure up to his mother’s expectations. The world has changed and he feels his mother needs to wake up. His personality is a direct contrast