An Episode Of The Television Series Intervention

In the book Sarah’s Key, Sarah goes back to the apartment where she left her little brother. She unlocked the secret cupboard to find him deceased. This completely tore her heart. I feel so bad for her. Sarah is pretty hard on herself. I do not think that she will ever be able to forgive herself. Thinking that she was responsible for her brother’s death really makes her think worse about herself.

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them”, says Maya Angelou, an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. This quote reflects to Sarah’s journey in the novel Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay, since the main character, Sarah, faces events that affect her well being, as they make her both weaker and stronger. These events causes her to lose her innocence, makes her persistent, and then eventually drives her to be pessimistic. Sarah experiences traumatic events through her journey, which leads her to change both in a positive and negative way.

A mentally ill teenage named Jessica Roger was born to Joan and Kevin Roger. As a young girl Roger’s mother was verbally abusive to her and her sister, she even went as far as trying to kill her husband. When little Roger was about eleven years old her mother left them with their alcoholic father. Roger ended up in prison for biting her sister and other acts because of her disorder, eventually she committed suicide while serving her time in a place where she just didn't belong. Although her mother showed remorse after her death and said, “she accepts blame, maybe too much, for what happened to her Jet”. On the other hand her father was unapologetic for his drinking “I still drink. It’s legal”. Roger sent her parents countless letter of how she was feeling but they didn’t do anything until after her death. Are you wonder how a mentally ill sixteen year old girl ends up on prison?

I decided to write my final paper on Koren Zailckas Smashed: A Story of a Drunken Girlhood. A memoir based on a young 14 year old girl who drinks for the first time with her friend Natalie before a birthday party. Her experiences with alcohol doesn’t stop there. We learn that she gets her stomach pumped at age 16, and at age 22, wakes up in an apartment in New York City unsure of where she is, because of alcohol. After this, she realizes that she has a problem and that she needs help. I chose this book as the topic of underage drinking and alcohol abuse is constantly rising in our society today. It is a problem that many youth kids are facing, and this book perfectly describes a young girls story about her addiction with alcohol and the many poor decisions she makes.

In these two books "The Glass Castle" Jeannette Walls and "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt both of them had to deal with alcoholic fathers. Growing up I can relate to this struggle, as a child my father drank a lot every night. The best was to survive was to avoid him all together. As my father reflects back on his past, he tells me this was because he was unhappy with his life. He knew his marriage was over. My mother was unfaithful many times, when he left our house he continued to drink. He explains this was because he felt that we were never safe in that house living with my mother and stepfather. From these two books I was better able to relate to Jeanette Walls character because she also experienced neglect. As a child I never thought anything of my mother locking out of the house, we had to fend for ourselves. I would say it was around the age ten when I suddenly got a “beggars complex”. I often would ask neighbors for food or to use their bathrooms. There were days that I would not go to school because my mom didn’t wake us up. Jeanette’s mom didn’t seem to care if she went to school or not. Jeanette is encouraged by her favorite teacher Mrs. Blivens to write for the school newspaper. Realizing that she has a talent for this, Jeanette had the big dreams writing for “the phoenix” a Brooklyn newspaper. Mrs. Blivens was a remarkable role model for her,

Sarah decided to share her journey of recovery from alcohol and drugs with the group to show others that they too can beat the horrible disease of alcoholism. Sarah said she started using drugs and alcohol at the age of 21 and used all the way until the age of 54. Sarah was stealing from close family members and prostituting for drugs and alcohol. At the age of 42, Sarah’s husband died of full blown aids but luckily Sarah did not contract the disease from him. Sarah felt that God had a purpose for her on earth because she did not get aids from her husband and die as well. She felt that her husband dying from aids was her wake up call. Sarah

In just a matter of months, Sarah has hastily experienced and heard things that she hadn’t thought she would. As she moved into her cousin’s home, she begins to see how the

The episode of Intervention was from Season 15, Episode 4-Digger and Anne which aired on March 27, 2016. Anne a middle aged woman was addicted to heroin and her husband, Digger, a middle aged man addicted to heroin. Anne uses about half a gram of heroin a day and Digger uses 4 times to 15 times a day up to 2 grams of heroin per day. Anne started her day by getting high off of heroin. Anne was in her mid teens when she started drinking, but she didn’t touch drugs. The episode never stated what Digger would do to start his day. Digger was drinking and smoking pot until he was 10 and then started using meth. Anne and Digger’s route of administration was mainly injecting the drugs. They would spend up to $300 a day on drugs. When Digger and

Prominent essayist and novelist, Scott Russell Sanders, in his essay, “Under the Influence” (1989), describes how having an alcoholic parent shapes a person. Sanders’s purpose is to reflect on his bleak youth and its lasting effects on his adulthood. He adopts a resentful tone in order to convey to readers who have no experience of growing up with an alcoholic that alcohol abuse is destructive.

The book, Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp, depicts a hardworking, strong, but interestingly weak Caroline. Caroline through her memoir shares her life story and her life relevance with alcohol. She writes her life as a functional alcoholic. She compares her addiction to alcohol to love. Throughout her memoir Caroline also described her journey through her excessive and misuse of alcohol. She describes the hardships that this has caused and how it has affected her, and her relationships. Her life revolved around it, and she was consumed by it. Alcohol ruled her life in many aspects for many years.

Shevon Greene had a healthy and happy childhood with her parents and siblings. She made good grades and was an average kid. When she started high school she was continuing to make good grades and she had a lot of friends. She was always going to parties where there was alcohol and she did not have a problem drinking. Throughout high school she was, unknowingly, starting to develop an addiction to alcohol. Her grades started to drop but she was still able to get into college. In college she struggled with her addiction and she did not make good grades. She eventually dropped out of college because she was doing so poorly and her parents were refusing to continue to pay for tuition. Her boyfriend really didn't like that she drank so much and

For starters, she has to stay at the Moore’s (family friend) because she can no longer take care of herself and her responsibilities after tragically finding her husband dead . Jemima (her daughter) visits her one day and at last she speaks to her daughter. There were other occasional visits where Sarah could not even speak to Jem. She confirms that she was responsible for James’s death that day. She says “I’m here because my heart is broken and I can’t face the world” (Rinaldi 226). Sarah is obviously not ready to move on and has not found a way to live with her decision of writing those letters which cause her husband's death.

She would take Ritalin to help her stay up at night to finish papers, and the first she did was in college to help her relax and focus. She knew she was addicted to drugs in college, but still graduated with from a top university, with a dual Masters. She secured a great job after graduation, and moved in with her boyfriend. It was around a year later she found out she was pregnant. Her boyfriend was also using drugs and was controlling. He insisted that she have an abortion, because “what was he going to do with a child”. She mentioned, “killing her baby” was the hardest thing she has ever had to do.

Her dad had always drunk alcohol in his life for as long as she could remember, but what she didn’t know that it was a problem. One day at school she learned about alcohol abuse, and the affects it can have on a person. She asked her mom later that night if her dad had an alcohol problem. Her mom told her no he doesn’t, and the subject wasn’t brought up again after that. However, her dad started to act different, and he was tearing the family apart.

To see the most important people in her life at odds because her cannot be easy for her. I am also concerned about what services, of any, Sherry is receiving to help maintain her sobriety and to be able to provide for herself and possibly even Lexi in the