Daisy was reckless. Not in the traditional way where she drove under the influence of marijuana, which she smoked a lot, she lived the life everyone around her wanted to live. Which inevitably lead to her to a path of destruction, that’s what her parents called it, to her it was called life and she would live it in the fast line. She never wanted the family with the white picket fence, she wanted the spontaneous alcohol and drug rock n’ roll lifestyle. When I first met DaisyI was a senior in highschool, trying to find a purpose in life. My plans was to attend the local community college and become a cop. That dream crumbled when I realized it would be hypocritical of me to do so. That summer I took a job as the local ice cream shop to earn some extra cash to fund my love pot and underaged drinking habbits. That job collapsed when I showed up to work still drunk from the previous night and puked on a mother who most likely passed her children off to nannie and dressed straight out of the J. Crew catalogue - a mother who I skillfully aimed all of my previous night’s alcohol on her button up shirt. After that I became an unemployed pain in the neck to my mother. Back at school and finally grasping a foothold in the real world by deciding to major in business, but still doing my shanagenuns, Daisy glided effortlessly back into my life. Once a quiet and highly intellectual fifteen year old freshman who tried to find a place in the high school jungle, was now a bleach blond
The narrator compares her beauty displaying regrets to children having to children departing from playing outside in the evening. Daisy is a beautiful girl that Nick becomes instantly star-struck in; however, the reader knows that her personality kills this star-struck from the phrase, “then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret.” Her personality is compared to “like
Daisy’s character is directly encouraging and patient. On page 35 it reads, “Daisy checked Donny’s assignments everyday. She sat next to him as he worked, trying to be encouraging”. This directly tells the readers how hard Daisy works to show effort into her son’s grades.
I think the way she faced them was smart. She had many things happen to her and also to her friends, family, and the town. And if I were to be in her place I would honestly be scared because of all the people she faced in this book were scary and can kill you. But I would still do the same things she had done in the book to make sure I wouldn’t hurt myself and also my friends and family. I think it would be tough and frustrating to have all these problems to solve because if I can't do much to help these problems, I would feel completely frustrated with myself. But Daisy always had hope that things would end up well, she believed good things would happen and that good would always beat the evil. In the end, I like the way things ended and I wouldn’t change a
Through it all she still excelled in high school and was an excellent basketball player, while using these things as a means of escape from the violence that surrounded her. She decided to spend the summer in New Orleans. She worked in a chicken factory as a strike breaker then found work in a restaurant making more money than she ever had before.
James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues” is a timeless piece of literature. In this story, Baldwin captures the reality of drug abuse. He tackles the aspects that accompany it, including the consequences that follow and the impact it has on others. Alongside the underlying themes of this story are memorable characters and an impactive message. “Sonny’s Blues” leads a story that can easily take place in everyday life.
had a tough life because she had to inject herself because she had diabetes. She also
She had 3-4 kids they were taken from her and sold to other people. She became depressed from that she lost the reason to live. So
Beginning with the late 1960’s counterculture in San Francisco, music and drugs will forever be inter-linked. Hippie bands such as the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, and Phish are associated with marijuana, mushrooms, and LSD. Modern electronic “rave” , or club music is associated with MDMA or Ecstasy. When one thinks of rock and roll, sex and drugs immediately come to mind. While the use of drugs is not essential for the creation or performance of all new music, it was certainly in important factor for the counterculture music of the late 1960’s. While some of the most important and influential music was made with the help of psychoactive drugs, it was often to the detriment of the artist. Janis
Daisy, like her husband, is a girl of material and class at heart, and Gatsby being her escape from a hierarchist world. Daisy has just grown up knowing wealth, so in her greedy pursuit of happiness and the “American Dream” Myrtle Wilson died, Gatsby's heart and life were compromised, without claiming responsibility on her part. Daisy was “by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville...” (116) Jordan says, describing early affections between Daisy and Gatsby. She goes on to say, “...all day long the telephone rang in her house and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the privilege of monopolizing her that night.” (116) . Daisy was a fancied girl who has Gatsby tied around her finger, Jordan explains that he was looking at Daisy “...in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time...” (117). Daisy, abusing Gatsby’s love for her uses it to create security and protection, greedily and selfishly allowing him to take the fault. While Daisy’s beautiful, alluring traits turn her into an innocent, naive flower, she plays the ultimate villain.
All Daisy's life she has wanted to be noticed, to be heard, and to be loved. However, when everything she has always
After so many years of being subjected by other people, she finally took her life into her own hands and made an attempt to be happy.
It is said that this hard lifestyle began to affect her work. Her songs were no longer filled with youthful emotions, but a sort of bitter regret. Even with the change in her music still had a great impact on other artists of her time and later. (www.numberonestars.com, 2010)
It was a peaceful and normal first hour. Well, at least for the people in it. Everyone was yelling, and the teacher had just given up on trying to stop them, and now was just browsing for a retirement home in Key West. I looked up at Jordan, who was my best and only friend. Her spiked blond hair was never put down, even in the toughest rain. Her tan legs sat on top of her desk, and her pine green eyes scanned the school newspaper.
Daisy had an accident, she was immediately viewed as too old to drive by her son. That accident was a life changing event for Mrs. Daisy. She seemed to be a determined, strong, stern, and independent woman. When Boolie informed his mother that she can no longer drive and that she would be chauffeured places, she declined and insisted that she would find a way to get to her destinations. It seemed that she did not want any outside help from others that affected her directly. She simply did not want to change the way she did things or her routines, which to her means losing quite a bit of her independence. This is when another life changing event happened to Mrs. Daisy. Boolie hired an African American gentleman by the name of Hoke to chauffeur his mother around. She immediately gave him the cold shoulder and informed him that she did not need his services. She even accused Hoke of stealing a can of salmon from her pantry. Indeed, he did take the can of salmon and openly admitted that the accusations were true, also with a can of salmon in hand to replace the one he had eaten. I believe this was another turning point for Mrs. Daisy. Even though she turned her nose up at Hoke, he was persistent, humble and honest, something she just could not shake easily. His patience instilled trust within Mrs. Daisy opposed to her son who just was too busy to spend quality time with his
This main character, Edie, learns important aspects that help her to change and bring her down a new, unpaved road. Throughout the course of the story, Edie is able to grow into the type of person she wants to become. The analysis of Edie’s character can be used to determine how she was