An Analysis Of Jerry Spinelli's 'Maniac Magee'

When people think of an “illness” they typically don’t automatically think of mental illness. They think about HIV, cancer, or even a cold or flu. However when it comes to mental illness it is a whole different idea. But is mental illness even real? Addressed in the book, The Myth of Mental Illness (1961), a psychiatrist Thomas Szasz argues that the idea of classifying psychological and emotional difficulties as “illnesses” takes away sense of control. Instead of holding people personally and morally responsible for their actions, he states, doctors attempt to “treat” the person, often with medications. Diagnosing mental illness, on the other hand, argue that mental disorders are as real as physical diseases and diagnosing them allows people

One way Mars Bar has affected Maniac is that he makes him really tough. When they first met, Mars Bar was very rude to Maniac. However, Maniac has been able to defend himself against what Mars Bar has been saying to him. This experience with Mars Bar taught Maniac to become tougher around peers like John McNab, as well as any black people who do not like him. Maniac is able to defend himself and become exceedingly tougher throughout the book.

Prose EssayIn, “Cherry Bomb”, Maxine Clair uses dialogue through indirect characterization, point of view through indirect characterization, as well as the flashback structure to help the reader. Through the use of these literary techniques, the reader can better understand why these memories in particular stand outher in head. Through the use of dialogue, Maxine's interactions with her childhood friends help show the relationships she had with the people mentioned in this excerpt. “...and Mr. Calhoun still came around with that-old-thing of an ice truck. Our mother still bought a help-him-out block of ice to leave in the backyard for us to lick or sit on.” This quote from lines 9-12 illustrate for the reader that Mr. Calhoun was a friendly man trying to make ends meet by selling blocks of ice. We can also look at lines 19-25 for another prime example of how the author uses dialogue to help convey to the reader her relationships with various people during her childhood. “I kept a cherry bomb and a locked diary in the closet under the back steps where Bea, restrained by my suggestion that the Hairy Man hid there, wouldn’t try to find them. It was an established, Daddy-said-so fact that at night the Hairy Man went anywhere he wanted to go but in the daytime he stayed inside the yellow house on Sherman Avenue near our school.”, shows the reader Clair's younger cousin Bea was someone she couldn't share her cherry bomb with. It can be inferred that

Review of Thomas Szasz. M.D.,The Myth Of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct.

I am born 1835 and am a physician and a superintendent from the Toronto Lunatic Asylum. I have had 10 years of the treatment of the insane. When I had encountered Riel, he imagined that he would go to Saskatchewan and he would gather such a big force so that he would become the monarch of Saskatchewan. I think that no sane man would think of such things. He had travelled between Ottawa and The United States as well as knowing the powers of Britain. For him to think that he would be able to train a successful army out of untrained Saskatchewan people as well as believing that he would divide the country into seven divisions would not be normal with a man with this understanding. He also is a Roman Catholic and among them, he went among endeavoring to conciliate them to get them educated on the schemes that he had and says that he wants to dispose the pope.

For the past fifty years treatment of schizophrenia has been marked by its basis on the dopamine hypothesis for schizophrenia. However, this model for the disease and its subsequent treatment have left many patients without relief or help in dealing with this disease which has lead to a search for a better model. The dopamine model lacks the recognition of a whole range of symptoms associated with the disease and therefore can not be an accurate basis for treatment. More recently, there has been a shift to the glutamate hypothesis which has been shown to more accurately characterize the wide range of symptoms experienced by patients living with this disorder as well as the possibility in improvements for drug treatments.

You’re having a serene conversation with one of your so called “friends” when you spontaneously insult them as a joke, but you don't realize that you infuriate your friend in the process and cause them to vow revenge on you with the only justice being death because they were mentally unstable. This is exactly what happened in Edgar Allen Poes’ short story called “The cask of Amontillado,” it is a story about Two men, Montresor and Fortunado, Montresor is a man who vows to get retribution on Fortunado, a man who merely Insulted his family name. As you can see Montresor is clearly insane and two other traits you could describe him with would be him being astute and extremely determined. In conclusion, there are three main traits that

In the book Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli developed Maniac Magee as a compassionate character throughout the story. The first way the author shows it is when Maniac met Grayson. He didn’t yell or run away, he just stayed and listened to Grayson. He didn’t want to tell Grayson he doesn't want to be a stranger, he wanted to help the old man and make his life better. Also, when Grayson was belling sick and was about to die, Maniac took care of him and wanted him to feel better. This example shows how compassionate Maniac Magee can be. One more example is when he made a deal with Russell and Piper. He made a deal with them saying that Maniac would do whatever they wanted if they go to school. He did this because he wanted them to be educated. He

    In the late 1800's/early 1900's, when Charlotte Perkins Gilman experienced her episode of "temporary nervous depression" (Gilman 885), and wrote her autobiographical short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," the workings of the mind were mysteries that few medical people attempted to investigate. A patient who was poor and ill-educated and exhibiting signs of mental disorder was institutionalized -- ala Bedlam. The patient who was rich, educated, and/or from a "good family" was called eccentric and given a prescription for complete mental rest and controlled physical exercise combined with the consumption of phosphorus enriched tonics. This regimen was to be followed in an environment

Maniac knows the Beale’s and they take care of him. Maniac has stayed with the Beale’s before and they think of him as family. Maniac has already slept with the the Beale’s before. In chapter 12 Spinelli wrote, “Maniac was lying on Amanda’s bed..” He had gone with amanda to fix the book and when Mrs.Beale found out that he didn't have a home, Mrs.Beale had Maniac stay with them. This shows that they treat each like family.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the story of a woman spiralling into madness whilst her physician husband refuses to acknowledge that she has a "real" problem. On the other hand The Black Cat by Edgar Alan Poe is about a man who is initially fond of cats however as the plot progresses he becomes an alcoholic making him moody and violent, which lead him to torture and kills the animals and eventually also his wife. In Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Black Cat," symbolism is used to show the narrator’s capacity for violence, madness, and guilt .The recurring theme present in both these stories is that the main protagonists claim that they suffer or have been taken over by a form of madness. In this essay I shall examine the

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