Every Last Word Analysis

Turning on the tv she was surprised to see on the news that an avenged murderer was on the loose. The lady on the news said it's best if people secure all windows and doors as a safety hazard. With the dog by her side, the young girl locked the front and back doors. She went from window to window and locked each of them one by one. She kept reassuring herself that she would be fine with her trusty dog and that her parents would be home shortly anyways. So Lily had a pleasant, peaceful evening, and finally decided around eleven o'clock that it was time for her to go to bed.

Literally, the persona of the poem is outside when some aspects of the nature around her, like violets and a blackbird, trigger a memory from her childhood. The poem then flashbacks to a childhood memory of the persona as a young girl, which is shown through the indentation of the stanzas, where the girl wakes up in the afternoon thinking it is morning and becomes upset when she

After securing herself in the room the narrator says, “I suppose I shall have to get back behind the pattern when it comes night, and that is hard”! She has began to believe that the women behind the wallpaper is herself and that she must return to her rightful place come night fall, proving that she has gone completely mad. The character’s illness develops form her paranoia and curiosity about the ‘trapped women’ within the wallpaper to

“At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound” ( Kidd 1). This quote represents the story about a girl named lily and how her life turns around after one day. In this journal I will evaluate why lily decided to leave, question why T-ray is so abusive to Lily and predict where lily where go next.

In this book, one boy spends six hours a day washing himself- he suffers from the fact that he will never be clean. This woman continuously checks her stove hundreds of times a day to make sure she turned it off. Another woman in the effort to make sure that her eye brows are even she was eventually pulls out all her hair. There are other characters such as Paul, Arnie, and Morris. These people suffer from a common sickness called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This book is basically a go to guide to finding treatments, as well as lists of resources and references to treating OCD. This book brings the disorder to public attention, describing its symptoms and suggesting routes toward treatment. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder that’s caused by thoughts that also causes fear and or worry. By repeating the compulsion it causes the persons fear to lesson. In my opinion I feel as if this book is a great book it gives you true life

This essay will introduce some similarities and differences between both symptoms and experiences of six different authors who have been personally affected by obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).  Since OCD is not very well understood by many members of the public ("Escape"), I hope that the experiences of the authors that I researched will be able to paint a vivid picture of what life with OCD is like.

The same night, Sam went to her school dance with her best friend by her side and also the foreign exchange student her grandparents were hosting. The geek that had a crush on her would not leave her alone the entire night. Due to this fact, Sam decided go to the auto body part of her school and was sitting in a car. She just wanted to be alone because she was her crush Jake and his girlfriend dancing and she was getting upset. As she was sitting the geek came along and they began to talk , as they were talking in the beat up car. He told Sam that Jake was asking about her like and she got really excited. After, the geek told her this Sam started to practice talking to Jake in the hallway but could not find the right words. Later, that night when the dance was over she saw Jake in the coat closet but froze and did not say anything. On the other hand, Jake froze too when he saw her and did not say

At no point in time did the couple attempt to privatize their lifestyle by putting up curtains to cover the window. Seeing as Diane also choose the same position to live with no curtains covering the window as she was younger and now as mother of a three year old child, she can relate to how that lifestyle brought her happiness. The couple’s style of living reminded her of how she used to live to point that they became a symbol of her younger years. After some time, Diane became engrossed with their lives. Their lives grew into a part of her life as her fascination drew her closer; she even picked up on the smaller things in their lives, such as the buying a new pot for plants. In subsequent time, the couple was forgotten over the seven to eight month period of time in which the couple had become absent to their room and only the girl would be seen from time-to-time. Following this, Diane saw a chubby in the room with a skeletal bald man. She came to the conclusion that he was terribly sick and she started to watch the window all the time. Over some time, the man would just be seen lying in bed curled up with his head to the window. He dwindled in size as the days passed and one day, with a notice from her husband, she gained knowledge of activity going on in the couple’s bedroom. She saw that people had gathered around the man in this room to give their goodbyes.

Zach explains his interest in Lily as well, and shows his affection by giving Lily a beautiful notebook, since he knows of her deep love for writing. During this scene, Kidd creates a loving and compassionate tone by explaining the actions the two does after the notebook exchange. Lily is gleeful and appreciative of Zach’s kind gesture and “[throws her] arms around him and [leans] into his chest” and Zach bashfully responds to this sudden action by “[folding his arms] around [Lily]” (Kidd 135). The two stands there, “in a true embrace” (Kidd 135). However, this tone shifts and becomes into one of sadness and sorrow. After their sweet moment, Zach explains his feelings to Lily and confesses his true emotions. Zach states that he likes her “better than any girl [that he knows], but [she] has to understand, that there are people who [will] kill boys like [him] for even looking at girls like [her]” (Kidd 135). Kidd changes the tone dramatically by stating the dark truth to their forbidden relationship, using sorrowful phrases such as “kill boys like [him]” (Kidd 135). In doing so, it allows the readers to sympathize with the couple’s story of loving and longing for someone, but being torn apart due to society’s cruel and judgemental standards. This scene reflects society’s racial standards and sees interracial relationships and marriages as shameful, since Zach explicitly states that colored men will die for even looking at white women in a romantic way. Lily responds to Zach’s statement and apologizes for her behavior, but as the novel progresses, so will their feelings for each other. Kidd utilizes the shift in tone to convey Lily’s love and adoration for Zach and vice versa, but sullenly explains how both are unable to publicly display their affections. Given these points have been noted, Kidd’s use of descriptive comparison and a shift in

Heather tells Melinda that they can’t be friends anymore and Melinda gets mad because she feels like she is the one who took Heather under wing since she was brand new to the area and didn’t know anyone. Now Heather goes to sit with “The Martha” group and Melinda is left to sit by herself at lunch every day. Melinda starts getting depressed that she has nobody to talk to and she starts skipping class and getting bad grades, her parents and teachers notice this new change in her but think she is just trying to get attention from them so they just sort of ignore it but her art teacher doesn’t and encourages her to speak and show her expressions through her artwork. Melinda then becomes friends with a guy names David Petrakis who is her lab partner in science and he is pushes Melinda to speak up. A little while later Melinda sees her old friend from middle school, Rachel start dating Andy Evans, the boy who raped her and she wants to worn her but doesn’t want to speak so she tells her by passing notes to her while they are in the

The contemporary classic novel Speak, profounds a girl, Melinda Sordino, entering freshman year at Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York, with a heavy secret weighing on her. Unlike regular students, Melinda isolates herself from the society after a devastating event that she had experienced. Through her perspective, we enter her world of depression as she struggles her way through the school year. From her eyes we see the way she sees life, hear the ways others described her and enter her mind on how she thinks of the world. On a journey of gaining back herself, bad things turn worse, as that one person enters her life again. ‘It’, who made her fall into misery, ‘It’ who destroyed her once happy life. Melinda fights not only with herself, but It, the school, the world. The only thing that she feels comfortable in doing is art, where she drew trees to Anderson will definitely make you laugh throughout her book, however along holds undeniable sadness as we watch Melinda heals her way through her trauma that doesn’t seem to leave her.

The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill starts with a mostly lighter tone. A traditional, happy, school room is depicted. The speaker expresses that they “miss” the teacher, Mrs. Lawrence, her room, and the school in general. The tone changes at the somewhat ominous line 15, “somehow it happens,” The line of children crosses the threshold and the speaker, Judy, is told she is not a good leader. The tone is mirrored in the reader’s opinion towards Mrs. Lawrence. Informal diction is used and, on a second reading, several words indicate that even from the beginning the poem may not be as light and sweet as it initially appears. Mrs. Lawrence “carves” her nails, the chimney “[breaks] up the sky”, and it is said that moving over

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What if you woke up every day with the same question in mind? “Is today a good day to die?” (Niven 3). In Jennifer Niven’s riveting novel, All the Bright Places, she tells the story of two suicidal teenagers from opposite social circles. Theodore Finch is an awkward boy that has never fit in and Niven slowly makes readers understand his internal battles more as his character develops. Violet Markey coming into the story is a main turning point and readers truly get an insight into the diversity of mental illnesses. After her sister, Eleanor’s death, Violet finds herself on top of the school bell tower, ready to end her time in the world, but is talked down by Theodore. Through a series of adventures Violet finds herself returning to her fun-loving self she was before Eleanor’s death, but Theodore is still struggling, and after trying to receive help, kills himself. This book, through the clueless parents, teachers, and classmates, shows how mental illnesses such as depression can so easily go unnoticed. Some readers find this book to be unrealistic with the ways depression is portrayed and were concerned for readers with mental illnesses saying that it

“At least she has gone to a better place.” Stephanie whispered to herself. As Stephanie wiped a tear of her face, she spotted Lila huddled up in the corner weeping her heart out. Stephanie knew that Amanda was Lila’s cousin, but she was too afraid to say anything. If she was caught talking to someone like Lila, her social status would be ruined! It would make her from the most popular girl to the 37 millionth popular girl. She can’t do that to herself...can she? She had to do what was right. She couldn’t let Lila suffer in silence. She had to be there for her. After all, that is pretty much the only thing they had in common.