Essay on Broken Lives

Has depression ruined your life and taken away the enthusiasm and zest you once oozed? Have you forgotten what it is like to feel true happiness?

From Hamlet to Harry Potter tragic heroes are seen in various forms of literature from completely different eras. They are able to compel sympathy in order to further the story and evoke the true meaning behind a book. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua achebe the tragic hero is Okonkwo who is very respected and successful in the Ibo culture. He is relatable despite all the cultural differences because of his tragic flaw and upbringing. Okonkwo grows up with great difficulty not being given the same opportunities in life but rises to greatness through hard work with a tragic flaw of pride leading to his destruction, all characteristics of a tragic hero.

The author begins Getting Life with the section titled pain. The author’s purpose for this section is to describe the events that caused him so much pain and completely changed his life. The author supports the theme of pain throughout this section by providing the reader with a personal account of learning about his wife’s murder, being arrested for the murder, and then being sentenced to life in prison. The author’s account of the murder begins in chapter two, and Morton describes in detail how painful it was to learn that his wife had been murdered. After the sheriff told Michael that Christine was dead, Michael recounts that “it felt like I was falling-falling down, falling apart- breaking into pieces under the weight of the sheriff’s words” (Morton, 2014, p. 19). To make things worse, Michael was not able to peacefully mourn the death of his wife due to the immediate interrogation by the Sheriff’s Office. Six weeks after Christine’s death, Michael was arrested for her murder. Furthermore, the author discusses how difficult the murder trial was. After the chief medical examiner recounted

In the book Eligible for Execution: The Story of the Daryl Atkins Case, the author Thomas G. Walker, a Professor of Political Science at Emory University provides a thought provoking analysis of the case Atkins vs. the commonwealth of Virginia. Walker has written his book is such a way that piques his reader’s interest and grabs the attention. He begins with a basic detailed summary of the case at hand, the murder of Eric Michael Nesbitt. The defendant, Daryl Renard Atkins is described as a body-abled young man who unfortunately did not have an opportunity to experience a close family relationship. His parents divorced at the age of 9 which acted as a milestone in his life. He struggled to complete his school and struggled with maintaining

Visualize a world where a significant person in your life died from one’s gruesome desire, where that special someone suffered and became a victim of a cruel, mysterious murder. Was the murder itself quick or was it revolting and brutal? Susie Salmon was a victim of a crime that should not be forgiven. In the novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Susie’s past on earth affected people that took part in her life because the past was all that they had of her. Memories of or with Susie were treasured; however, they were also feared by the one who killed Susie’s future.

In 1959, the small town of Holcomb, Kansas was left shaken after the Clutters, a prominent family, are left senselessly murdered in their own home. Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel, “In Cold Blood” is able to captivate audiences everywhere by not only exploring the victims, but also the criminals. One of the four members of the Clutter family includes Bonnie Clutter. Wife of Herb Clutter and mother of Nancy and Kenyon Clutter, Bonnie is portrayed as a once sociable woman suffering from depression. In Capote’s novel, Bonnie Clutter is characterized as solely a depressed woman through the means of contrast and symbolism.

The unfortunate circumstances that the Salmon family went through were depressing and a shock to everyone, but, it made everyone look at their lives and what was truly important to them. In the novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Susie, Buckley, and Lindsey think that they will be together forever, but after Susie is killed and no one knows what happened to her everyone decides to respond in a different way. Some violent, some illegal and some are just out of the protection of the family. But, Jack Salmon believes that Mr. Harvey is Susie’s killer and has put it at the top of his priorities to prove it. Their family did not only have to go through the loss of a loved one but after Susie’s Death they stopped communicating with one another,

The implicit ideological theory or perhaps theme in lovely bones about murder is inadequate to such modern environment, this would probably be my thought about this book five years earlier, but as I channel through a world of corruption, famine, but mostly murder, I finally reorganized my process of thinking. This story is about a girl been raped, and murder by her neighbor, and her family started to get confuse of this unexpected situation, and after few day Susie disappeared they are trying to solve the case by connected the puzzle together.

Perhaps it is more difficult to withstand the doubt within oneself. Robert Drewe writes his memoir, linking the crimes of the serial killer Eric Cooke to his own story. The memories of his youth are infused with the guilt that he feels for having been instrumental in his mother’s death. Is he a murderer he asks himself, and the doctor who is far from reassuring. His failure to abide by the teachings of the Moral Agent lead to his girlfriend’s pregnancy. He describes his marriage as ‘a celebration of flagrant immorality’ from his parent’s point of view. His concept of himself having contributed to his mother’s death weighs heavily and provides him with insight into the mind of the killer Cooke. There is sympathy for a man who has lived his life as a social outcaste, who dies without his family even noting the time. It is Robert who is ‘watching the clock’. Robert prefaces the memoir with a quote from Ionesco, ‘You can only predict things after they have happened’. Looking back on his life, he now thinks he sees a boy who could have been more observant, the signs were all there. So keen was he to live his own life that he failed to really consider what the effects might be on those that he loved. Even though his mother seems to do little more than hover on the margins of the pages, we sense Drewe’s insistent remorse. As a young boy, he did not really know his parents. He is aware that his mother also had different personas, Dot and Dorothy and there is the growing realisation that Dorothy has suppressed Dot in order to be a wife and mother, according to the dictates of husband and society. His taking her so much for granted, his failure to be the son that he now feels he could have been, lead to the depiction of himself as in need of finding out who he really is. There is the feeling that he will be able to get back in touch with himself in the last line of the memoir as he sets out with the

John’s story is told in a first-person view, which contributes to the insight of the mind of a sociopath. It’s one thing to see John’s decent into his own hell from a third-person view, you understand the feelings and emotions racing through his head well enough; it’s another thing entirely to live his decent, to see first-hand how much his obsession is killing him inside. For someone void of emotions, John pours his heart out within the pages of this book, and every moment of it is seen, heard, and felt. John gives a powerful statement about serial killers here, “People wanted the explanation to be as big and flashy as the killings themselves, but the truth was far more terrifying: true terror doesn't come from giant monsters but from small, innocent-looking people"

       As the tale begins we immediately can sympathize with the repressive plight of the protagonist.  Her romantic imagination is obvious as she describes the "hereditary estate" (Gilman, Wallpaper 170) or the "haunted house" (170) as she would like it to be.  She tells us of her husband, John, who "scoffs" (170) at her romantic sentiments and is "practical to the extreme" (170).  However, in a time

Whether you are successful or not depends on what the definition of success is to you. Not everyone has the same perspective. Do you find your happiness in how much money you make or do you find it in your moral surroundings? Many people have it easy; they grow up in a nice, wealthy family and are looked upon as “better than”, even if they are not the best type of personality to be around. Others, however, have a much more difficult time, being raised by those who do not have as much to offer to their children but offer as much as they possibly can to keep them alive and well. These people have to adjust to what they have come to know and rise above these disadvantaged backgrounds they experienced for so long. The differences are in how

It is understandable that the ex-wife may get the house due to the children, to keep from having them to lose all of their memories that they had made to move into another house. But the spouses should agree on who gets the house, along with who the children stay with most. If the children are older they should have control over who they stay with. Also if one spouse gets the house the other spouse should get the property. If the couple has debts they should be divided equality.

Trauma and mental illnesses are a huge part of a lot of people’s lives, but many more don’t know much about it. It can take a huge toll on both the old and the young, no-one is immune. Trauma or traumatising experiences are something that are often spoken about, but not truly understood. After recently studying ‘Lord of the Flies’, which looks into lives of a group of boys who get stranded on an island and turn against each other, I was curious as to how huge, traumatic events might affect children like those in ‘Lord of the Flies’. It is never explicitly stated, but I was sure that an event like that in a child’s life would be extremely traumatising, especially seeing as the boys witnessed a few deaths during their time on the island, and not peaceful ones. This made me want to better my understanding of trauma, especially in children, so that I could treat it with full respect and to try to comprehend what it may be like to live with traumatic experiences in your life, events from your past and what affects they can have on you after.

To begin, Sebold exemplifies the bittersweetness held by the truth. This is made apparent when the father of Susie Salmon, a rape victim murdered eight years prior, comes to terms with the fact that his daughter will never return. In doing so,