Girl In A Bad Place Summary

Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver, is a romantic and mysterious type book. Two girls, who used to be best friends, get in a car accident. It wasn’t deadly, but one was seriously hurt. After recovery, their world seemed to fall apart. They were farther apart than they had ever been, and can’t even talk to each other without getting angry. Next, their parents get a divorce, and the dad gets a new girlfriend. Their mom has to take sleeping and eating pills or she would go crazy. In this book it seems like nothing is going right for them.

The book I am currently reading is called “As Dead As It Gets” by Katie Alender.

Learning about Girl’s Ranch and sex trafficking from Cece was an eye opening experience. She discussed many aspects of the ranch, the safe harbor lay, details of sex trafficking, and services as well as experiences of victims.

“Good Girls”: Gender, Social Class, and Slut Disclosure on Campus, Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton, Elizabeth M. Armstrong and J. Lotus Seeley

A new and alarming trend that has been occurring in American society is the increase of violence committed by young women. The documentary Girlhood offers an insight on the emotional, psychological, and social reasoning behind the girl’s actions. Girlhood focuses on the life of two young juveniles, Shanae Owens and Megan Jensen both incarcerated for violent crimes. Shanae and Megan both experienced similar circumstances that yielded different outcomes. They were followed for a period of about three years which allowed viewers to really see what kind of role the justice system, family and peers have on the success of an at risk juvenile.

“In this world, friendship is a weapon, and the sting of a shout pales in comparison to a day of someone’s silence. There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away” (Simmons 3). This quote from Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons shows that girls don’t show aggression in the same way guys do. Girls use the power of their relationships to bully others. Rachel Simmons was once bullied herself. She never spoke out about it or tried to figure out why it was happening. Now having grown up, she sets out to talk and listen to females of all ages to figure out just how many of them have been bullied or have been the one to do the bullying. She interviews girls from different schools asking about their experience with other girl bullies. Two of these girls, Vanessa and Natalie, both said they

The character that has been chosen for the character analysis is Jewel. Jewel is the third child of Addie Bundren Jewel is seen as a really tough guy, and a hard worker in the story. He is also a goal achiever, what he wants he gets he completes his goals and needs. To his mother Addie Bundren, he is her favourite child, she believes that he will be the one to save her “from water and the fire”. Jewel is a type of quiet character that just gets work done, he has a different type of life apart from the Burdens.

In the movie Girl, Interrupted the plot surrounds a period in the life of Susanna Kaysen played by Winona Ryder who was institutionalized at the Claymore mental hospital in the 1960s. In the movie, the main character Susanna is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and undergoes treatment to which at the end of the movie she is released. It is at this hospital that Susanna encounters many other patients of which she shares many experiences with. One of these patients was the longtime resident and popular amongst all the other patients Lisa Rowe played by Angelina Jolie whom Susanna became close with and would mid-movie escape the hospital with to only return on her own and find that Lisa would be back a few days later. Lisa, while being the protagonist of the movie, was very charismatic in her own way and based on her behavior and revelation in the movie is diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, particularly a sociopath in the movie.

Death by landscape by Margaret Atwood was an interesting story about an all girls camp located within the wilds of Canada. It is a story about two girls, Lois and Lucy. Lois feels rather plain and unremarkable, and meets Lucy at summer camp. Lucy fascinates Lois, I she is pale, blond, and part American. Although both girls come from roughly the same socioeconomic class, Lucy's life seems a bit grander than anything lowest that ever seen before. Despite these differences, the girls crew close, returning in the summers from the ages of 9-13. Their friendship ended dramatically one fateful day. On a week long excursion, after hiking up a mountain trail, Lucy strolls way to use the bathroom, and she is never seen again. Her body is never found, although many suspect that she jumped off a cliff into a lake below.

A trope states different categories of figures of speech e.g. similes and puns. They used to describe and analyze a convention that can easily be understood and recognized as its common applied. Popular cultures are the images, perspectives and ideas that are within a given culture and is directing a certain mass. Final girl, a horror movie is among those movies that have many tropes in them. This movie is about a certain woman who becomes the last in line to ever confront the killer. She becomes the only person to ever narrate the story. This all happens after all her friends were killed by the killer holding her. The killer won’t let her go as he is holding a knife to finish what he had started. Hence, the essay below analyses tropes in pop cultures in the movie, the final girl.

Girl, Interrupted is a captivating and striking film about the struggle of coming to terms with mental health and overcoming personal obstacles to allow treatment and support. While the main character Susanna Kaysen stays in the Claymoore psychiatric hospital, she is introduced to a whole new world, one where she is forced to confront the fact that she has a mental illness and needs professional help.

Jamee, Darcy’s fourteen-year-old younger sister, is rude and rebellious to her and others, but Darcy still cares about her. One day, she is at the school library and heard a boy, Bobby Wallace, about a girl he’s dating who is willing to steal for him. She finds out that he was talking about Jamee and she tells her what she heard so that they will break up because she hated that Bobby was taking advantage of her. Later, Jamee returns from school and saw that someone had hurt her and Darcy found out that when her sister broke up with Bobby, he hit her. She later encounters him before school and warns him to stay away from Jamee, in an effort to protect her the best she can.

The movie, Girl, Interrupted, displays Susanna Kaysen’s eighteen-month stay at a mental institute in the 1960s. This film was an adaptation of a book based on a true story of the main character and author Susanna Kaysen. Susanna was checked into Claymore, a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, after chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. At first, Susanna denies this blatant attempt at suicide and constantly struggles with uncertainty of her thoughts and emotions. Although Girl, Interrupted exhibits several mental disorders one of the most prevalent disorder of this film is Susanna’s Borderline Personality Disorder. This film depicts majority of the signs and symptoms of a person with Borderline Personality. As stated in the textbook, “the lives of persons with borderline personality are marked by instability. Their relationships are unstable, their behavior is unstable, their emotions are unstable, and even their images of themselves are unstable” (Larsen and Buss 593). Susanna’s romantic relationships are extremely unstable and she frequently engages in casual sex. She jumps from one guy to another in a matter of few weeks. One scene that establishes this the most is when her boyfriend at the time comes to visit her at Claymore and expresses his true feelings for her and she instantly withdraws. He asked her to go to Canada with him and she turns him down immediately. She also kisses Lisa who she befriends at the mental institute, displaying a switch of

This movie is about institutionalized girls who are receiving treatments for multiple mental health disorders. Claymore Psychiatric Hospital is in Belmont, Massachusetts, this movie is based on a true story. Daisy Randone, Susanna Kaysen, and Lisa are the three main characters in this movie. Mrs. Randone’s is hospitalized for depression and bulimia nervosa disorder. The way this movie portrays numerous mental health disorders is excellent. A variety of clients from different cultural and diversities are being treated at Claymore. It is an awesome movie, the way the patients’ act out the personalities and disorders gives an excellent understanding of the disorders. Susanna is being treated for depression, and borderline personality disorder. While, Lisa is a sociopath and isn’t very complaint with treatment regimens and has been in and out of the facility several times. While Susanna attempts suicide by chugging a bottle of vodka with at least twenty – five aspirin and is unsuccessful, Daisy sadly ends up hanging herself from harsh words and manipulative, provoking from Lisa. She is successful in her attempt by hanging and the day of her death is on her birthday.

In the book, The Good Girl, by Mary Kubica, one of the main characters, Colin Thatcher, shows a two very distinct personalities in the book. He changes throughout the book due to connections with others.