Assessment of Mental Health Disorders: Oliver Queen in Arrow

Oliver explains how she found herself thinking of summer fields and felt like lounging on the sand before the owl’s dark wings opened over her. This symbolizes that before death, one is in temporary bliss until their time has come to an end. Oliver pictures herself free and content, staring into the cities of roses before death comes knocking on her door. This shows that death is an “immobilizing happiness” before it rips you from the world for good.

Rather than to fight back, she embraces the killing machine mentality and she chooses to die as the girl who she was before the war. “But she isn’t going to pick up the gun. It sits on her right table partly out of habit, and partly because she wants them to know that she was armed and could have fought back.” Arrow does not move to use her father’s rifle because when her father was still alive, he did not want her to feel and experience hatred. Instead of saving herself with her dad’s rifle at her bedside, Arrow chooses to reconnect with “[I am] Alisa.”

* Arrow’s changing again. She had changed when the war started and she first began killing the snipers, but now everything had changed, she kills because she has to and because she hates them.

Everything started to happen when later that day a man be the name of Colonel Graff shows up at Enders house looking for

He somehow seems to think that they made handkerchiefs and went to an execution. “The Jew” has also been introduced. I found out that his name is Fagin. Oliver definitely didn’t know that they were thieves. Cause when he sees them steal, he is so shocked that he runs away and gets falsely accused of being the thief. :( His innocence is so sad and cute.

For Arrow, witnessing the violence and bloodshed in Sarajevo changed her outlook on the world to the point in which she completely separated her pre-war and present-war self entirely. Arrow, Alisa pre-war, was an individual who, based off of Maslow’s hierarchy, had reached her self-actualization. She knew and understood the significance of life and its purpose, “she realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It’s a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever (12).” However, Arrow’s attitude and perspective on life is change when she witnesses the war and realizes that the men on the hills have robbed this knowledge from her and the citizens of Sarajevo, “/but because the soldiers have robbed her and almost everyone else in this city of this gift. That life will end has become so self-evident it’s lost all meaning (12).” Satisfying her hatred, Arrow changes her name and weaponizes herself to who Sarajevo knows now. Witnessing the violence and chaos of war, changes Arrow’s outlook on life as she loses all meaning of life and even the lives of others, the lives of the men on the hills. She reaches the point where she dehumanizes the men on the hills until she sees them as mere targets. This new perspective on life, has changed Arrow’s understanding of the world around her and has altered her existence until she changed

She does not lose the innocence of her true self. Another example of humanity is in Arrows thoughts. As Arrow escapes the fallen building “she wonders what it means that the insignificance of her injury does not bring her any particular sense of relief”(19). Commonly a sniper in war would be grateful for being alive but Arrow does not feel the same. She knows to be alive means that she must continue the horrific acts of a sniper. This shows her humanity because for a sniper, killing should not have any emotional effect,but Arrow feels regret because she knows it is not right to kill anyone. Furthermore, she realizes that murder is never going to be right. Arrow asks herself if she “has good reason to hate [the men on the hills] absolve her”(190). Arrow understands in times of war, there is a code to follow which means only targeting the enemy soldiers. The men on the hills are disobeying this code because they are not

His plan to save this world from war. They work together and make fake identities to so they can go onto the computers. The chapter also talks about how Peter has changed. Graff also comes to visit Valentine to tell her to write to Ender a meaningful letter. So Ender is now nine years old, he is the top ranking soldier.

After spending several months with his white family, True Son’s cousin, Half Arrow, shows up. Together they return to the Indian village. When they

He goes in knowing that he will probably die, and the scene is bloody and drawn out. Furthermore, Wiglaf enters the final battle to help him, showing the respect that he has earned from his thanes and that they are now willing to give their lives for him.

Finally, the Greek hero Theseus can be compared to the modern fictional Hero arrow through the final stage of the hero’s journey, which is the hero’s return. In the T.V. show, Arrow Oliver Queen returns to his home of starling city when he is eventually found on a remote island, which comes as a surprise to everyone in Starling City because he was presumed dead for many years. He turns into a vigilante and becomes known as the Arrow. He fights, to save his city from crime, and corruption using the skills he acquired on the island, and becomes known as a robin hood like figure by the people of Starling City, his return was fuelled by a desire to save his city. In Theseus’s return, he returns to the city of Athens where which is ruled by his

Peter. Soon Colonel Graff from the International Fleet comes to take Ender to Battle School. Ender leaves Earth and everyone he loves to save the world from the buggers.

. Oliver is an orphan and a pauper, meaning his "fate" is more or less sealed from birth: social forces appear poised to keep him in a "low" position forever. But Oliver, as it turns out, is the illegitimate son of a gentleman, and his father has inherited enough money to be able to pass some on to Oliver. Thus Oliver has a competing fate: that of a son who realizes his fortune later in life. Most of the incident too shows that though he had a terrible life by fate,he uses his own conscience and decides for himself what is

Mental illness is heavily stigmatized in mainstream media sources, such as articles, books and movies. The character who is suffering from a mental disorder, which is stigmatized is often exaggerated for the sake of entertainment. The stigmatization of mental disorders is unfair to those who have mental disorders. The viewers of media are viewing those suffering from the disorders as “psychotic” or “crazy”, which is inaccurate and unjust to those affected. The media representation of the disorder provides vague and inaccurate causes and treatments. In the movie series “The Dark Knight Rises” and television series “Dexter”, the characters Joker and Dexter are afflicted with the mental disorder antisocial personality disorder; in which it creates

Oliver vows that every person on his father’s list will wish he too had died on that island. Similar to the first episode of Arrow, The Flash has it’s first episode named Pilot as well. It begins with a flashback to when Barry Allen’s, the main character, mom is killed in an unexplainable event and his dad is convicted of her murder… which Barry believes to be untrue. Now, 14 years later, Barry works for Central City C.S.I and is quite good at his job. On one particular night a particle accelerator, created by Harrison Wells and was supposed to change the way everyone thought about physics, exploded releasing an unimaginable amount of dark energy. Lightning then struck Barry, which put him in a coma for nine months. After waking up, Barry began to notice certain things were slowing down… or so he thought. In reality, he was just moving unexplainably fast. When a man named Clyde Martin that can inexplicably control the weather starts terrorizing the city, Barry takes it upon himself to take him down. He speaks with Oliver Queen for advice, Barry knows Oliver is the Arrow, and Oliver tells him that he can inspire people the way he himself never could. Barry then takes on Clyde Martin head on and defeats him. The storylines between the two shows are similar because they both begin by showing what made the two heroes and what made them who they are stemmed from former accidents.