Causes And Effect Of A Man Called Ove

I felt lost and unable to express myself to others. Just like Ricky, I closed myself off from everyone around me. I wanted to be alone. After her death, I began to wonder: How could this be possible? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why? Similar to Ricky, I tried to make sense of her death. Andrea and Julio were so young, so naive, and full of life. They had a great amount of life yet to live. However, one day I tried to view the situation differently. Andrea was fearless, like Julio. She “dared to disturb the universe” as the novel quotes. She had lived every moment to the fullest –and I began to take comfort in

As Oekeke awoke, he shifted in his bed with a pain coming from his chest. It wasn’t a pain that made you clench up and scream, he knew from that moment something was very wrong. He tried to open his at last, from when he awoke his eyes were still weary but it seemed as though he was stuck in time. His heart pumped faster and his mind was propelling from left to right to across the back and back. All he could think of was his family, but with such confusion he could hardly focus on the realty of his situation. It was a sensation he’d never felt ever before, and as he saw his life flash by him he knew the only thing he could do was to wait it out. The old man finally grasped control of his life covered in sweat and disorientation. He asked

Ophelia is accustomed to having her father speak on her behalf, as well as being dependent on him for emotional support. Her absolute dependence means Ophelia does not know how to cope and reason on her own. Being left to grieve alone, she does not have an objective perspective or someone to bring her back to her senses, and therefore becomes overwhelmed by her emotions. Having no control over the intensity of how to feel and act is a very unhealthy way to cope. Her grief makes her speak “nothing”, and those who hear her are left to doubt and “think there might be thought”, although they cannot be sure about what she really means.

By exploring the responses Ophelia and Laertes had to their father’s death, other aspects of human nature are revealed. Their responses to

Deej Logan was just like any normal high school girl. She woke up on her first day of school and combed her hair, picked out the “perfect” outfit and headed out the door. What she didn’t know is that after that day nothing would be the same. Nothing that day seemed to be going right. At school drama was swarming all around her, not exactly what she hoped the first day would be like. By the time the last bell of the day rang she was more than happy to get out of that school. She drove home as quickly as she could but as soon as she got home she realized that she had forgotten to pick up her sisters. “Great.” She thought sarcastically as she sat back down in her car and drove off. Just then she pulled out her phone to message one of her friends about her awful day. That one decision changed everything. Before she had a chance to send the message Deej veered off into oncoming traffic and was killed on impact.

After Hamlet killed Polonius, Ophelia lost her father. Ophelia’s love for Hamlet was also turned to naught (Gates). She lost those she loved when she most needed them. She spent her time thinking about Hamlet and at times ignoring Polonius’s commands. In the end, she lost Polonius and the love for Hamlet. Once she lost Polonius, her madness was driving her to suicide. Eventually, she began to sing songs in order to comfort herself. The hymens enabled her to mourn her father’s death (Carroll). She relied on her songs because she had no one else. Ophelia’s speech became representative of her mental health. Her hymens gave an insight to how she was truly feeling.

Ophelia is Hamlet’s love interest throughout the entire play. However, in an attempt to be strategic, Hamlet feigns insanity in order to be deceiving and in turn breaks Ophelia's heart. His sudden disinterest towards her coupled with her father Polonius and brother Laertes’ commands to stay away from Hamlet composes a dire internal conflict within Ophelia's mind. She is torn between her undying love for Hamlet versus her desire to be an obedient daughter and sister. In addition, Hamlet unintentionally murders Polonius rather than Claudius, which also adds to Ophelia's insanity. To make matter worse, Ophelia has no mother figure within her life. So taken all together, she is stuck in a constant battle within herself with nobody who is there for her. “I hope all will be well. We must be patient/ but I cannot choose but weep/ to think they would lay him/ i' th' cold ground” (Hamlet v, iv). This quote from Ophelia demonstrates her deep sorrow towards her father's death, as well as the start of her path to insanity. Her lack of a maternal figure leaves her with nobody to discuss her feelings and troubles with. Because of this constant battle within her life, Ophelia finds herself in a confrontation with her emotions, which ends in her official decision of suicide. Which one could argue makes her decisive in the end which may be true, but her internal struggle leading to her choice of suicide is what makes her a great example of a character struggling with uncertainty during times of

When Ove’s wife Sonja dies he is devastated because they have been through so much over the past years. In the beginning, Sonja and Ove took a trip to Spain on vacation, here they got into a bus crash. Sonja was pregnant before they left, but the impact of the bus crash was too much pressure for the baby to handle and the baby died. To add on to the pain, Sonja was paralyzed and would have to be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. As a teacher, Sonja was up on her feet a lot, but the school would not allow Ove to build her a ramp to get into the school. This added to the depressing events that Sonja had been through but it was not ever yet. Government

At first glance, Ove is a stereotypical grouchy old man, but as the story progresses it becomes evident, through his numerous interactions with his “moron[ic]” neighbors, that Ove is a mench (18). Early on, Ove’s relationship with Sonja, his dead wife, isn’t made clear, but through, what I think is very unique, Backman’s continual flipping back and forth between current and past event, Ove and Sonja’s love story is fully revealed. By having chapters that go back in time, many of my questions were answered and I learned why Ove is the way he is, which made me appreciate his oddities even more. In addition, although Ove repeatedly tries to commit suicide, Backman uses humor, not only to alleviate

           As the play opened, Hamlet and Ophelia appeared as lovers experiencing a time of turbulence. Hamlet had just returned home from his schooling in Saxony to find that his mother had quickly remarried her dead

Ophelia love is not genuine, and therefore treats her with disgust. He assaults Ophelia with words,

She feels separated from her father the preacher. He’s so busy with his work in the church that Opal is often alone and left to fend for herself. Opal’s Dad is antagonist at the beginning of the story, but at the end he, Opal, and Winn Dixie become closer and their relationships improve.

So poor Ophelia is again asked to conform her will to the wishes of another, this time her only living parent, her father.

character. Ophelia’s dependence on others is, sadly, what lead to her death. She could not

As a result of spending her life under the protection of her father and his orders, due to her submissive nature, Ophelia remains naive and unaware of the deceit and bitterness surrounding her which renders her incapable of facing the harsh realities of life once her father dies and Hamlet leaves her. After the death of her father and with the absence of both Laertes and Hamlet from her life at the time, Ophelia is driven to madness and Gertrude explains it the King: “She speaks much of her father, says she hears there’s tricks i ' the ' world, and hems, and beats her heart, spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt that carry but half sense.” Finally seeing the grim reality of her surroundings without her father to hide behind, Ophelia loses her sanity and eventually end her own life as she no longer knows how to lead an independent life. In conclusion, Ophelia is portrayed as a puppet on strings being pulled around by the males in her life, making all her decisions and controlling what she can and can’t do, and once all the men are gone, she no longer able to function on her own and she ends her life as a result.