Bullying and Carrie

The death of a loved one can result in a trauma where the painful experience causes a psychological scar. Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones explores the different ways in which people process grief when they lose a loved one. When young Susie Salmon is killed on her way home from school, the remaining four members of her family all deal differently with their grief. After Susie’s death, her mother, Abigail Salmon, endures the adversity of losing her daughter, her family collapsing, and accepting the loss of the life she never had the opportunity to live. Abigail uses Freud’s defence mechanisms to repress wounds, fears, her guilty desires, and to resolve conflicts, which results in her alienation and

The book uses fictional documents, such as book excerpts, news reports, and hearing transcripts, to frame the story of Carietta "Carrie" White, a 17-year-old girl from Chamberlain, Maine. Carrie's mother, Margaret, a fanatical Christian fundamentalist, has a vindictive and unstable personality, and over the years has ruled Carrie with an iron rod and repeated threats of damnation, as well as occasional physical abuse. Carrie does not fare much better at her school where her frumpy looks, lack of friends and lack of popularity with boys make her the butt of ridicule, embarrassment, and public humiliation by her fellow teenage peers.

The story called The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is about a girl named Susie who had gotten raped and killed at the age of 14. Throughout the story it was about life after Susie with her immediate family like her mother Abagail, her father Jack, and her younger sister Lindsey and how they adjust to life after Susie, as well as the effects of Susie’s life in heaven being away from her family. The death of Susie had a bad impact on her immediate family psychologically and emotionally and each of the character’s grieving process of susie’s death was different . With Abigail the death of Susie causes for her to be denial of the death and become depressed as well. Jack goes through denial with Susie’s death and as the story goes on he comes

In Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak, the protagonist, a freshman named Melinda must learn the key to recovery after enduring extreme trauma. She struggled to find someone to speak to, due to the school shunning her for calling the police at the party. Throughout Speak, Melinda seeks to recover from the trauma she experienced, especially the cruel actions from her ex-friends. Through symbolism, Laurie Halse Anderson displays the theme in Melinda's perspective.

I knew nothing about the book except its amazing title and distinct description. I have read many bullying stories, but this one seemed to stand out more compared to most stories. I wanted to read this story because it had something that interested me greatly, on the back Lucy stated that “to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect” I found this quote quite unique in contrast to other books in this genre which intrigued me greatly.

Throughout the story Connie and her mother didn't get along very well. Connie felt neglected because her mom would always brag about her sister and never seemed to speak nicely about Connie. Connie actually wished her mother was dead and so was she so it could all be over ‘He didn't bother talking much to them, but around his bent head Connie's mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over. "She makes me want to throw up sometimes," she complained to her friends. She had a high, breathless, amused voice that made everything she said sound a little forced, whether it was sincere or not.’ Despite their fall out, Connie still calls for her mom with her attempt to get away from this older man realizing that she is not a mature adult and still needs her mother by her side.

Carrie’s full name is Carrie Amelia Moore, she was born on November 25, 1846. Her parents are George Moore and Mary Campbell Moore. She had five siblings, two boys and three sisters. In total they are seven children that George and Mary had. In 1854 Carrie moved from Kentucky where she was born to a farm in Missouri. Carrie’s first kiss was when she was nineteen years old with a guy named Charles Gloyed. Charles was a doctor and had a very good education and was handsome too. During 1862 Carrie moved again but this time to Texas and the year after that she returned to the farm back in Kentucky. While that time when she

Both the movie and the story emphasize the dramatic separation of understanding between Connie and her mother. The apparent lack of depth in Connie and her father’s relationship dims in comparison to the almost-tangible hatred Connie seems to feel toward her mother, her mother “who had been pretty once too, but now her looks were gone, and that was why she was always after Connie” (Oates 148). Despite the anger she feels, however, it is her mother that Connie cries out to for help in both versions as she sees herself forced to give into Friend’s wishes in an attempt to spare her family the evil he hints will come

The Gothic heroine and the young heroine’s identity changes once the moment of refusal is brought upon them and the powers of villain no longer make them feel fear. Their refusal gives them strength and female empowerment that allows them to face the villain and his oppression. This identity of the young heroine embodies who they are as characters, resulting them in becoming stronger, more matured women. Their lessons, their knowledge and will power allow the heroine to thrive in a world of power and control over the choices the women made. The young heroines are no longer girls. They transformed and become women as they stand against the political-societal views that held them back for so

With the publication of Sure Signs in 1980, Ted Kooser wrote Carrie, a poem about the morality of humanity and how life is cycle. Like most of his work, he used firsthand experience to forge his thoughts, this time his Aunt's life. The poem is only eleven lines long but its meaning it universal. Even though it's a short poem, Kooser found a way to enrich it with figurative language, from similes to metaphors. With the lines, "as her rag, like a thunderhead," (3), to "and an elbow that creaked and popped / like a branch in a storm." (8-9), Kooser portrays to the listener of the environment his Aunt lived, which is an area he's accustomed to, the great plains. In the poem Kooser writes, "seventy years with a ball / of compulsion closed in her fist," (6-7), meaning that in life you grow in age, and that there's no stopping it. Eventually, life will end with

In the novel The Lovely Bones written by Alice Sebold, describes the story of a teenage girl Susie Salmon, who after being raped and murdered, “watches from her personal heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on.” This essay will discuss how the loss of Susie affects the Salmon family, how the loss of Susie affects Abigail Salmon specifically and the author’s purpose of the idea of loss in the novel.

The Siskel and Ebert Halloween Review from 1978 shows how they like how the movie shows how the female character is seen as intelligent, brave and smart. The way the two men spoke about how they felt about the film gave a feminist critic. They were able to put them self in her shoes and think about how they might of felt in that scenario. They see the film as up and positive and see the movie for the film qualities other than the depressing killing. The film focused on film qualities, where the mood, lighting, music and camera angle all played roll in creating the feeling where one can feel that the female actor out smart the bad masked man.

A trait that stands out in the book is the symptom of bodily memories. In Melinda’s case, during a frog dissection in her science class, she remembers the opening up and even says, “She doesn’t say a word. She is already dead. A scream starts in my gut – I can feel the cut, smell the dirt, feel the leaves in my hair.” (81). One of the other symptoms that Melinda has is self-harm. The first time that this is shown in the book, Melinda says this, “I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this? A whimper, a peep?” (87). Melinda also has a hard time talking to her parents about the rape to which she says, “How can I talk to them about that night? How can I start?” (72). Some victims recover from such a traumatic experience, while others don’t and live a lifetime of depression and must undergo intense therapy. In Melinda’s case, she finds redemption by talking to her parents and the guidance counselor, and putting her faith into her teachers, friends, and her art project at school. Because rape can affect anybody anywhere, everyone should be aware of the circumstances, and how to deal with it.

Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie is a simple tale of a young, pretty eighteen year old girl Caroline Meeber also know as Carrie.

It is through the physical pain that the reader understands the emotional strain and turmoil of the protagonist’s plight. The juxtaposition of survival and living are never more evident here. Her children are kidnapped; killed or sold. She has a body still recovering from the birth of a child, and she is forced to take her mother’s place, as a victim of domestic violence and sexual assault. Walker cleverly crafts this sense of desperation with Celie’s soul baring letters to god, the reader realizes she is has no one else to turn to; her writing only re-enforces her father's control over her. Her persevering spirit is what makes her survival so unique in the sense that she does not become embittered through any of it. “I look at woman, tho, cause I am not scared of them.” Telling god that she has not been traumatized at all by her mother’s passing, in fact, she goes further on “Mabey cause my mamma cuss me you think I kept mad at her. But I ain’t I feel sorry for her. (Walker, 5)” This for the reader is the most heart-breaking stance that she takes, as the reader is aware of the fact that her mother hated Celie’s guts with writing agony because her husband choose to rape her when she could not have sex with him. The reader singularly carries this sense of desperation for the protagonist as she continues to power through the intensity that surrounds her.