An Analysis Of Cheryl's Heroic Journey

Finally after all the sadness, she decides to hike the Pacific Trail and hike 1000 miles to the bridge, after she sees a travel guide in the store. Through this journey she met a lot of people, along the way she can relate to such as Lou. Lou had a 8 years old son who died after he got hit by a truck. He died at young age: just like mother who died at age 45. Another wonderful example is when Cheryl acknowledges the wild and describes her wonderful feeling while she's in the wilderness, “It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild.

In Cheryl Strayed's Wild, she gives readers vivid exposure to her turbulent and harsh past. She tells her journey from the beginning of what was the turning page in her life- her mother's death. Strayed goes through a roller coaster with unfortunate events both in her control and out of her control. She makes several poor choices, and she shares all her triumphs with pure honesty. Strayed speaks of her past with a distant remorse, as if she is looking at her past in a movie. She doesn't come across as ashamed of her past, but why should she? As all humans do, Cheryl Strayed makes mistakes and suffers their consequences as well. Everyone handles situations differently, and the best anyone can do is learn from the mistakes and apply it to

The words “I’d carried her so long, staggering beneath her weight,” are very figurative words. Cheryl obviously did not literally carry her mother on the PCT. She wasn’t packed in her monster on her back, but she was very heavily packed in her heart. The burden of losing her mother was in her heart and her mindset through the entire journey until this point. It’s not that Cheryl finally forgot her mother or didn’t care about her anymore, but she accepted her loss. To remove that emotional weight from her

Travis Ruhland’s book, Caring for Kait, ties into the discussion of adult development and aging that we have been having in this course well. Though this book’s focus, Kaitlyn, did not get the chance to live life into old age, there are still relevant themes that can be found in the narration of her battle with cancer. I will examine themes related to aging that I found in her husband’s narration of her battle with cancer: memory changes, feelings of control and lack thereof, and spirituality.

She became accustomed to the perception of a desert being portrayed as dull and lifeless (Being raised in Kentucky) until this trip. Throughout this scene, she expresses her fascination for nature, and uses a tone of awe and allurement while describing the attributes about the land with metaphors. This narration occurred following the first rainfall, when Mattie and Taylor decided to go to the desert. This passage which is distinctive of Kingsolver’s portrayal of the natural landscape shows her sudden awareness diverse atmospheres. By linking to the scenery to “the palm of a human hand”, the author uses the literary device of personification with the mountains and the town. Her phrase “resting in its cradle of mountains” associates the basin to a child, and the phrases “city like a palm”and“life lines and heart lines hints a grown-up. The terrain exemplifies a life from the beginning to end. Taylor describes the land my linking each attribute with lots of metaphors, which then confirms that the tone is “wonder and allurement” because it demonstrates that she is emotionally connected to the

“I felt anger and bewilderment. Not at Cheryl or anyone else. Mostly, I guess the anger was for me. For being the way I was. Because it had caused Cheryl to feel so alienated from me that she couldn’t share the most important event in her life with me. Cheryl’s baby. Henry Liberty Raintree. Then I smiled. A part of Cheryl still lived.” April thought to herself ( Mosionier,

A moment caught my attention when Carolyn was making her own individual progress through her depression and role in the

Cheryl had died. But for Henry Lee and me, there would be a tomorrow. And it would be better. I would strive for it. For my sister and her son, for my parents.

One day Cheryl had come and lived with April. April and Cheryl ran away and didn’t make it far cause the police found them sleeping in the field. April and Cheryl got old enough to finally not be in a foster home and got their own home. April met a white guy named Bob Radcliff and married him and Cheryl got a boyfriend. Cheryl ended up dumping him because he didn’t want to be seen with her while he saw his friends.

She had three kids, one girl who had eight years old and two younger boys. Her family had very few moments to analyze the situation. They started treating this illness as fast as they could with chemotherapy and some other medicine. She looked strong and healthy after her treatment. But it was then when everyone realized cancer is a critical illness. After having her back for some months, she had a setback. Not many days after, she died, leaving three young kids and her husband alone. Thinking about three kids who had no time with their mother is overwhelmingly sad. A mother is essential and special to her kids, that there is no easy way to live without one. Cancer is not only destroying the lives of people who have it, but it is also destroying families. Cancer has no

In her memoir, she shares how she carries the burden of her husband’s death with faith and hope in God.

Erin Geoffrey II, his father, a rich, prominent Brain Surgeon, married seven times. Devoted to long hours teaching students tarnished his marriages. Death do us part, was literally deleted in the wedding vows of his last three weddings. In addition temptation had caressed his dark side of life with flames of desire, want and need quite a lot, while the other side of his life demanded full attention with life-and-death decisions daily. Oh, don't get me wrong, Erin Geoffrey II was a grateful man who fought his way from poverty. The horrible disease of brain cancer had taken his mother to her death, dying at home in his arms; he was sixteen at the time. Erin's father was a truck driver, and he left 30 days after his wife’s death, never to return

Cheryl Fahrenholz throughout chapter 7 discusses various laws and acts that govern electronic health records and includes medical and clinical documentation guidelines. I picked five of these terms that I believe are the most important. They are Clinical documentation, Medical record analysis, Electronic document management system, Data Collection and Deficiency Systems.

After the death of her husband, Mother struggles to keep her family together by providing the support and guidance they need, and encouraging them to use good judgment and think of the family as a whole before making their decisions. As the family faces various obstacles, each seemingly more severe than the last, Mother begins

Well, not quite. She doesn’t say cancer right away. Mom and Dad don’t know all the details yet, and Mom doesn’t reveal the cancer part right away. But she tells you that Henri has to have his kidney removed. And that’s scary. It’s scary to me and I’m seven years older than you are. Your little brother has cancer. You’ll cry, right there in the car, with Henri’s friend Ava in the back seat. Mom will cry a little too. Mom will cry a lot in the next year, she’s just as strong as Henri is. You get home and Henri is in the front lawn. He got to go to Burger King for lunch, in between his tests, and he got a green dinosaur toy. He’s just sitting there, playing. Happy. Looking back on that, I know now how miraculous that is. How incredible bravery is amplified by youthful innocence. You won’t understand that, and that’s ok. There are a lot of