Dennis J. Reardon's Subterranean Homesick Blues Again

Those burdened with psychological pain in their lives often turn to drugs, alcohol, music, or other ways to cope with this suffering. Besides the celebrities that have abuse substances to battle their unhappiness, poorer communities like Harlem in the 1900s also fall victim to hardship. World renowned psychologist, Sigmund Freud analyzes these kinds of escapes from problems claiming how these obstacles in life will in turn define one’s life. In “Sonny’s Blues,” James Baldwin describes an emotionally tortured Sonny who, similarly to Freudian belief, chooses to numb his reality with heroin and jazz despite his brother, unnamed narrator’s, attempts to steer him towards a more reputable life.

"I was in the house," Kris Dunn recalled. "There were two big dudes banging on the big, glass door and telling me to come to the door. I'm looking at them, I'm like, 'OK, I'm going to lock it up even more.' My brother comes out and says: 'What are you doing? That's our father.' Emotions just came out of me so much. I never met my father before." It was not until the age of nine that future all star Providence College point guard met his own father. Growing up, Kris was living in Alexandria Virginia with his mother Pia, and his child-hood father figure and older brother John. Life was challenging for Kris at first with many bumps in the road. From not knowing where his next meal would be coming from to two-time Big East Player of the Year and 5th overall draft pick the light would ensure

James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny Blues”, is about the relationship between the narrator and his younger brother named Sonny. The narrator finds out through a newspaper article that his brother is being arrested for using and selling drugs. While the narrator is walking home from work, he notices one of Sonny’s old friends waiting for him by the school. As they were walking together they began to talk about Sonny. Sonny’s friend he makes him realize how difficult his brother's drug addiction has been. Sonny’s big brother didn’t write to him while he was in prison until his younger daughter Grace dies. Sonny writes back to him trying to explain how he ended up where he did. After Sonny gets out of prison, he takes his brother in. In

In the prologue, Audre describes her “home” as being a place that could only be from a fairy tale (enchanted even). This home is somewhere Lorde never visited or never observed. She only knows this extraordinary place through her mother’s stories. As Audre grows older, “home” is something she does not have in life. She even expresses that the extraordinary place (Carriacou) from her mother’s stories in no longer the home, she longed for it to be (Zami 256). Even though her home was in Harlem, New York, Stamford, and Cuernavaca, they never felt like home. Throughout the novel, it appears that Carriacou helped Audre deal with the racist society. She finally accepts her character in society as a black lesbian. She in time grows to admit that

Life is short because in the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton there are two groups called the Socs and the greasers that dislike each other. When two of the greasers kill one of the socs out of self defense, the boys go into hiding inside an abandoned church. Somehow the church caught on fire when they were away, and some kids were playing inside. Johnny and Ponyboy went inside to help the kids, and Johnny was badly burned. Ponyboy had a couple cuts, but is ok . Johnny was rushed to the hospital where he later died at the age of 16. One lesson learned in this book is that life is short

A vanished World written by Chris Lowney chronicles the daily life of the Jews, Muslims and Christians, living in the Muslim kingdoms in Medieval Spain. He covers different spectrum of this world that was torn by religious antagonism. In Medieval Spain, in the medieval Spanish villages Muslims, Christians, and Jews rubbed shoulders on a daily basis. They shared irrigation system, bathhouses, municipal ovens, and marketplaces. But they created a system that made everything work efficiently. Medieval Spaniards introduced Europeans to paper manufacture, Hindu-Arabic numerals, philosophical classics, algebra, citrus fruits, cotton, and new medical techniques. More astonishing than Spain 's wide-ranging accomplishments, however, was the

In the story of reservation blues by sherman alexie the opening chapter starts off with the literary device of foreshadowing. “ In the one hundred and eleven years since the creation of the spokane indian reservation in 1881, not one person, indian or otherwise, had arrived there by accident. Wellpinit, the only town the reservation, did not exist on most maps, so the black stranger surprised the whole tribe when he appeared with nothing more than the suit he wore and guitar slung over his back.” The opening scene in this chapter gave me the feel of an mystical spooky setting. This lead me to believe that this character “ Robert Johnson” would have a big part in this story.

“Subterranean Homesick Blues Again”, written by Dennis Reardon, is a grim play about two dysfunctional couples who were lured into the pits of Hades by a young tour guide for the rest of eternity. To initiate restlessness, Reardon strikes the audience with a tragic turn of events, abandoning us on what seems like a intellectual cliffhanger.

Subterranean Homesick Blues Again by Dennis Reardon ia a 10 minute play. The play is about a group of teenage couples who decided to take a trip to the Caverns. Little did the teenagers know that their interesting tourguide will take them on a detour of no return which makes the bickering teenager regret their recent decisions.Reardon reveals suspense that is sure to keep you on your toes.

CCBT packages including ODIN, Beating the Blues and MoodGYM have a positive effect on symptoms of depression. The content of these programs are based upon the principles of a standard CBT provided by a therapist with the same processes of traditional cognitive behavioral therapy. The ODIN focuses on psychoeducation therapy for depression and modifying cognitive distortions. The earlier versions of this program had eight sessions and did not include behavioral interventions (Bowers, Stuart, Macfarlane, & Gorman, 2008) but the modified one in 2006, by Whitfield and colleagues, was included behavioral skills to oppose maladaptive behaviors and inactivity (Whitfield, Hinshelwood, Pashely, Campsie, & Williams, 2006). The new ODIN consists

In the play Subterranean Homesick Blues Again by Dennis Reardon it is a play that takes place in a cave where a group of three friends go on a tour, and one of them takes their mother. The tour guide jokes around with them and shows them around, also he explains to them the difference of temperatures inside the cave and outside on a regular bases day. Through the whole story the guide walks them around and tells them more about each subject while , in every place the tourists discussed and ask different sometimes random questions to the tour guide. The purpose of Reardon with this play is mainly to entertain the readers, do that this story is full of humor and suspense it will make the audience blast in laughter.

Have you ever wanted something so bad a but when you get it isn't all that great. In the story When a southern town broke a heart, Jacqueline Woodson is showing that the theme is things change as you get older.

In the play “Subterranean Homesick Blues Again” by Dennis Reardon is about two couples that go on a tour in a cave as a tour guide takes them down in different levels. When the levels go down the couples start to feel stranger as each level brought terror toward them. Going down levels the couples were headed to the last level they least expected. The couples were in for a unexpected surprise.

In House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski he discusses how the inside is some way bigger that the outside. Once David realized the interior of the house was greater than the exterior the first person he decided to call was his brother Tom, who he had not spoken to in eight years since her works in building homes. I was amused to see that since the discovery of the houses dimension he decided to called his brother to help uncover the truth. The fact that the whole family except the kids got caught up on discovering the truth about the house, and were frightened at the concept of the interior being greater by a quarter of an

Compare and contrast Auden’s and Faulks’ use of detail establish a feeling of alienation in ‘Refugee Blues’ and ‘The Last Night’