Far From You Life Lessons

For her, everyday acts seem much more enjoyable when on drugs. She goes out of their way to experience something new and exciting. She is a creative writer and uses drugs as a way to get back to her child-like imaginative state. Suddenly, with the drugs back in her life, she seems to have much more insight and a wilder imagination. "And the afternoon was absinthe yellow and almond, burnt orange and chrysanthemum. And in the abstract sky, a litany of kites"(93). She longs to feel this way all of the time, but she knows the consequences. She sees doing drugs like going to a carnival. It is an escape from the boring life she is leading now. Even though she has a daughter, she still feels like there is something she is missing out on. The idea of motherhood takes backseat to her lust for drugs.

Natasha has been feeling like Hayley and Jenny don’t want to be friends anymore, so she goes back to Becca. Together, Natasha and Becca try to find out how she got in the river. Later on, everyone was at play practice. Tasha wasn’t feeling good so she sat out. Becca’s best friend Hannah stepped in her place. When Tasha went to go move the overhead light, it came crashing down over Hannah. It killed her. Both the police and the girls had decided that Hayley and Jenny had led Tasha into the river and did something to the light for it to fall. The two girls were sent to prison and counseling for murder and attempted murder. After that, everything was going fine until Becca started to get a little suspicious. She asked the police if she could look over all the evidence again. She then came to the conclusion that Natasha had done all of it. She had thrown herself into the river and framed Hayley and Jenny, and she loosened the light so that it would fall. The police did not believe her. One night, Becca and Tasha went out into the woods. Becca was going to try and get her to confess. Natasha did end up confessing, but then she

This reflects to Angelou’s quote as Sarah uses her experience to be better. To begin, after losing her mother she realizes that she is the only hope in saving her brother, which makes her more determined to get her brother. Sarah is alone as her mother is not protecting her anymore, as the author proposes, “that woman had little by little disappeared. She has become gaunt, and pale, and never smiled or laughed…. The girl felt like her mother was already dead” (66). Sarah feels that her mother is no longer in existence, she is physically there but mentally she is not, therefore Sarah is the only hope to save his brother. From this event, Sarah gains determination to save her brother for her mother, to get a chance to bring back the happy times she once had. In addition, Sarah also promises her brother that she will come back for him. According to the plot, Sarah says to her brother, “I'll come back for you later. I promise” (9). This promise drives Sarah to go back for her brother, as she it her determined not to brake it. In addition, the way she is treated by the police makes her determined to stand up to them and not show fear. This is proven when the author

Alice runs away again, this time on her own. She struggles to survive, and only cares about drugs. After a few weeks, she breaks down and calls her parents. She goes back home with them. Again, she swears off of drugs. The kids she used to hang around are pressuring her to do drugs again, and even start bullying her. This time, however, Alice stays off of drugs. She deals with the bullying. She meets and falls for a nice guy and she’s closer with her family. Things start to look up when she’s drugged. Her family believes her, but she is sent to an insane asylum. It’s very difficult, but she gets through it and is let out.

They continue on looking for drugs, food and a place to hang out and Telly and Casper decide to go to Paul's apartment where a bunch of adolescents are they're talking about sex and smoking different substances. Casper then begins to inhale nitrous oxide out of a balloon, but during this scene it is interjected to a group of girls. Two of the girls whose names are Ruby and Jenny are talking about their sexual experiences they have had. Ruby and Jenny talk about recently getting tested for STD because Ruby wanted to go and Jenny just got tested to keep Ruby company. The girls go on to talk about all their sexual experiences where Ruby has had multiple sexual encounters, many of them unprotected and Jenny has only had sex once with Telly.

She was participating in fun school activities, playing soccer, and getting her senior pictures taken. Her life was slowly getting back on track, but heroin is a powerful drug, and she fell into it, yet again. She then spent 30 days in a residential program and received more treatment for her heroin addiction. Laura’s parents were about to leave for a vacation; however, Laura could not be found. Apparently, she had a run-in with an old friend, who was also an addict.

Sarah had and might have some intellectual setbacks. She is below her peers intellectually and has had some learning deficiencies with articulation, mathematics, and chemistry. At the age of 12 her father died and that was when she had taken a turn for the worse. Argued and fought, had gotten a boyfriend who made her feel bad about her weight and lowered her self-esteem. Mother had found diet pills in Sarah’s room, but Sarah lied about them. During Sarah’s interview she was asked if there was anything she would change about herself and she said that if she could change anything it would be her appearance. She

It then jumps backwards from the AA meeting to follow Noah and Sophie on their journey before they met. The song goes, “You’re like second nature, baby, you’re just like breathin.” The first flashback of Sophie is of her drinking alcohol from a mug and later pouring more alcohol into a plastic water bottle before work. These lyrics fit this situation because drinking and hiding her addiction was second nature to Sophie. In Noah’s first flashback it is learned that he is a part of Dan and Shay’s band, but he is letting his addiction get in the way of his passion.

About three years later her sister Loren is about to get married and for that special occasion their aunt Azza is visiting from Jordan. Sophie is willing to come back to her mother’s house, concealing that she is still

Cassandra has this feeling that Tiffany doesn’t know how serious and devastating it is to use heroin while she is pregnant. So she decides to

Once this girl started with the drugs, she could not stop. As soon as she tried the first drug, it lead to all of the other drugs and things that she did. Her first time doing the drug was an accident, and she did not know, but she made the wrong choice in continuing to do them. She said it gave her a feeling of belonging and love that she had never felt before. If her parents or her close friends had paid more attention to her, then some of the events that happened would not have happened. Her heavy drug use lead to her runaway from home to the streets, involvement in crime, her prostitution, and her visit to the insane asylum. She found a "best friend" (Chris) - one that would give her drugs - and they decided to runaway and leave their family and friends to start their own shop in San Francisco. They thought they could not handle their parents telling them what is right and what is wrong, but that is what they needed to hear. They were naive in thinking they could live their lives alone without any rules or any authority.

Dr. Gordon, who gives her electroshock therapy, makes matters worse with her mental health. She finds herself in a crawlspace swallowing sleeping pills thinking suicide is the answer, but is fortunately found days later. From staying in a few hospitals, Esther is taken to a psychiatric institution, where she meets Dr. Nolan. While there, she receives successful electroshock and insulin therapy sessions unlike the previous Doctor. While she is there, she Meets Joan, a high school friend who also dated Buddy.

and I was trying to forgive myself for that. She loved me and that was no fantasy.” (p.232) Toni found the answers she had longed for, supposing it was not exactly what she was looking for because her parents are dead, but she at best finds out the truth of her past. Now a weight is fundamentally lifted off her shoulders after being aware of what happened.

     Alice’s drug addiction drives her along with her family insane. She has to fight a

In episode 28, Sophie happily munches on a slice of pizza. Her enjoyment of the pizza comes to an end when Paul remarks that he is happy to see her eating with gusto. This quickly ends her enjoyment of the pizza and she becomes very closed off to him. Sophie goes on to tell a story of how the word reminds her of a girlfriend of her father’s, an Italian model who also admired the gusto with which Sophie ate. Sophie’s self-consciousness and obsession with her weight and her overall physical appearance are revealed in this moment and it becomes clear that Sophie’s difficulty lies in the way that she has constructed her sense of herself in relation to the cultural belief about beauty and perfection that she has received from her father and his model girlfriends. Later in the same episode, Paul pulls down one of Sophie’s father’s books of photographs. His approach is to use narrative therapy to help Sophie narrate her