Dark Paradise Elizabeth clasps her shaking fingers together as she stares unblinkingly at the picture hung up on the opposite wall. All she feels is a crippling, bone-breaking pain; yet at the same time, she is numb. A part of Elizabeth wants to break free of this icy ocean that surrounds her drowning form, but a stronger, louder part welcomes the numbing pain; for it is all she has left of John. It’s been well over a year since he has been gone and she still wakes up at three in the morning, nearly sobbing, with the bittersweet taste of a memory with John, her John, on her tongue. She loved him, she loves him, she will always love him; that will never change and she doesn’t want it to. “Elizabeth, I love you, but you know it’s time to move …show more content…
However it was no use. A wonderful and terrible image of her dear, sweet John is painted across her eyelids. She is haunted by her beloved; never to be forgotten. He now resides in her head; guiding her and keeping her strong, telling her that everything is fine. But it’s not. It will never be fine: John is dead, never to return. No matter how many tragically beautiful dreams Elizabeth has, where she is wrapped up in John’s strong arms and he is looking down at her adoringly or they are just laughing and smiling at the pure euphoria of each other’s presence, she can never again wake up in his warm embrace or laugh at one of his jokes. As sick and twisted as it is, Elizabeth, not too long ago, existed only for her dreams. Her wonderful paradise, her terrible paradise, her dark paradise. Where she could see her oh so lovely John; the only place she could see her John. Although when she wakes up wishing she were dead, those few moments of living in beautiful, unaltered glory make it all worth it. But now she dreads sleeping. Sleeping means dreams and dreams mean waking up in tears, disappointment, and paralyzing sadness, It became all too
Early that morning, newly hired park ranger, Jennifer Flores, stuffed a banana into the blender and mixed up a high energy chocolate drink. Her dark brown hair was pulled back into a ponytail and her face was clean and free of makeup. She was dressed in a black jogging outfit that hugged her body tightly and showed off her shape. She poured her drink into a glass and guzzled it down like she was in a beer chugging contest with her sorority sisters.
Okay, hi I guess. My name is Nicole, the school's "Queen Bee". Or *insert b word* I really hate my past, not my present... I changed. Anyway, it's time to tell you my story. The story of my life. The story I was lost in. Its not my fault, Because its loves fault. The story that ruined my life. The story which found my love. The story that ended with a smile, a full heart. A loving man. So listen up, because here I
Every request the woman in the story has made to her husband has been dismissed and her depression continues to worsen because she has lost control of her own life. John fails to understand how it feels for his wife to be trapped in her room all day. “He forces his wife into a daily confinement by four walls whose paper, described as ‘debased Romanesque,’ is an omnipresent figuring of the
I am 21 years of age with no one to count on, no hopes for a brighter future, and feeling all alone trying to be the best mother I can be for Abigail-Rose. I’m wondering who can help guide me through my journey of motherhood and as a young woman, where I try to be as visible as possible in covering my emotions through a smile. I’m trying to show that I am a strong young woman, yet I’m scared to do or say the wrong things. I desperately hope no one will ask me if “I’m okay,” because then I’ll burst into tears.
John is an antagonist of the story. He feels he is doing his wife good; by locking her away in this mansion. However, the reader soon realizes, this treatment is only worsening her mental state. He is never home with her; he always has patients to see in town, leaving her locked in this house; alone with her thoughts. He ensures that she gets rest and fresh air to get well. To him, it may seem as though he is doing his wife good; by locking her away in this mansion. However, this seclusion she experiences causes serious damage to her mental state. Her husband has control over her that women
As people travel down the path of life, they begin to realize who the important people in their lives are. When people share the same commitment between each other, they are willing to do anything for one another. John and Elizabeth share this commitment and connection, although the path hasn’t been smooth. Through thick and thin, John changes throughout the story not only for himself, but for his friends and his wife, Elizabeth.
Taking another deep breath to help calm his nerves, John folded the letter and sealed it with some sticky tape. With his hands trembling he handed over his most private thoughts to Josie. After they had exchanged letters they said their goodbyes and went their separate ways. Once John got outside he looked up to the hazy sky and let out a shaky laugh full of relief. Maybe just maybe Josie would be the one to save him before it was too late. He hoped that she would open the letter before graduation and help him put back together the shattered pieces of his life. Because deep down that broken boy wanted to live more than anything in the
My dear husband, I understand that you would do anything to get me out of jail; but it is not necessary. As you know, I am with child and they will postpone my death a year. They tell me of how you have fought to try to save me. You do all of this at your own expense. We both wish that things weren’t this way; but you don’t need to suffer with me. If you continue to defy the court they will have no mercy on you. What would happen to our children? They would be orphaned; I refuse to do that to them. You have to forget about helping me and focus on our boys.
The actions and choices he made that lead to where he is now. A lovesick girl who would go to any means to have the man she loved had managed to have him sentenced to death and his wife being spared till birth. For the first time in months, John and Elizabeth are finally in each other's presence. With the time to himself, he has decided he is not a worthy man, that he is in fact a fraud, one who cannot die honorably. Now is the time to decide their own fate.
The room that John picks out for his wife is upstairs and secluded. There are bars on the windows and the wallpaper has patches that have been ripped off. Would you want to stay in a room like this after already suffering from depression and anxiety? She tells him that she expected a room “downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window.” (217). However, she walks in to find a bed that is nailed to the floor. Imagine how scary that would be! John assures his wife and their family that she is fine. He thinks she will get better being in this room away from everyone and everything. Her “brother is also a physician and he says the same thing.” (216). She is placed into an uncomfortable environment and is made to be alone against her will. This is one of the reasons she loses her mind.
John, the narrator’s controlling, but loving, husband represents the atypical man of the time. He wants his wife to get better and to be able to fill the role of the perfect wife that society expected from her. John, being a doctor, did not quite believe that her mental illness was out of her control and insisted on
After a while of staying at the house she started to get lazier and rest most of the time. During the day when John and his sister think that the narrator is resting she is actually study the wallpaper in the room. She is starting to feel uneasy in the room once more and wish that John would take her away from the house but John would not listen and he would say that the house was doing her good. The only way that John would leave is if he believe that she was in any
The blood freezes in her vains. Her whole body freezes in shock as she could feel the barrel of a pistol against the back of her head. Hearing at the same time that significant sing-song voice. She holds her breath, it feels like her heart stops beating. The disbelieve and shock in her mistress´ eyes and the fear on the face of her son are making it even worse.
Queen of England and Ireland, Elizabeth Tudor I, In her speech, the Spanish Armada at Tilbury, in 1588, supports the English in the battle between the english and the spaniards over religious conflict between the protestants and the catholics. Tudor uses ethos, pathos, and logos to boost morale and show support for the troops. Tudor adopts a more positive and motivational tone as a way to express a sense of encouragement in her troops.
I remember the day just like it was yesterday, the pale color and coldness of her skin. The sky was clear blue, soft, with a touch of red, and the trees seemed stiff in their bright green shade. The wind was blowing with its humid dry air. And All I could do was stand silently in disbelief, caught up in my own thoughts and calm as I ever been. Wondering what I could have done differently to change the course of time, life had taken us upon. Since that very day a chunk of my heart was ripped away, and broken into pieces… “Oh how I miss her so much.”