Gone Girl By Amy Dunne

In 1932, Amy was severely injured in a fall. At first it simply appeared to be a badly broken leg, but as her leg healed, other problems showed up, and she was finally confined to bed as her back had been hurt and didn’t heal. Despite being bedridden, she wrote many encouraging books and ministered to hundreds of people from her bed.

Tracy, a seventh grade girl in the movie Thirteen, provides a glimpse into the dangers of negative adolescent development. She was an honor student who was content playing with Barbies, but she was also desperate for acceptance and affection. Tracy meets Evie, a popular girl who engages in destructive behavior. Tracy’s only goal becomes emulating Evie, and she embarks on a path of self-destruction. Tracy, who is in early adolescence, is at the peak of her most critical developmental stage (Capuzzi & Gross, 2014), and is willing to do whatever it takes to belong. Throughout the movie, we see her struggle with low self-esteem, anger, dysfunctional relationships, self-harm, and substance abuse. Vernon (2009), discusses Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, which can be utilized with Tracy. Vernon (2009) notes that when needs of safety, belonging, love, and respect are not met, children respond emotionally, cognitively, physically, and socially, depending on their developmental level. The degree of development also impacts how children react to common developmental difficulties and situational problems. Vernon (2009) adds, “…how children interpret and respond to basic needs, as well as typical and situational problems, can result in various self-defeating behaviors” (p.3). Applying this to Tracy, we see that her basic needs of

However, it is her father that states there is no need for Amy to attend rehab, therefore, she does not. There are countless other scenes presented in the documentary that demonstrate the disconnect between Amy and her parents such as her father showing up with a camera crew during a time that was intended for Amy to overcome her mental health issues and her addiction to drugs (A Most Modern Tragedy: Why We’re All To Blame For The Death Of Amy Winehouse). In an interview with the director of the Film Amy it is evident that the relationships she had in general were peculiar. For example, it was stated “she had lots of different compartments that she had everyone in. And in each compartment everyone felt they were her best friend” (Interview With Asif Kapadai, Director of 2015 Amy Winehouse Documentary “Amy”). However, despite the strange relationships Amy had with her family and loved ones, they did share one thing in common, they all wanted what they thought was best for her. This proved to be an enormous dilemma and maybe a justification for her inability to recover from her addiction to drugs and underlying mental health

For example, Alex goes to Tipton Rosemark Academy in Tipton County. She joined the golf team and the art club in order to interact with more people; However, she does not score as well as the other girls on the team, and has a different art style than the other art club members. This makes Alex feel self-conscious and she becomes more reclusive as a result, because she fears what her colleagues and teammates will say about her. The team and her schoolmates do not dislike Alex for these reasons as she assumes. Presuming she is conceited as a result of her withdrawn tendencies, they decide it is best to not include her. Moreover, the popular group sees her as a good target because of it. As a result, Alex typically gets stuck going out with her parents or invited to do things when she overhears the planning conversations. Being the type of person she is, Alex never said a word and has been dealing with this since the sixth grade. This affects Alex’s parents because they hurt for their child, wishing that it could be different for her. Alex is aware if she does not at least try to do something, she is not going to be involved or ever make more friends, and remains fully aware that the situation has an indefinite chance of continuing in the case she does not do anything about it; and thus, resolves to make a change.

Katie is raised by a single mother like Tyrec and uses the childrearing method of natural child growth. That’s it. The Brindle’s are a poor family struggling to make ends meet as Ms. Brindle is currently unemployed as she raises her eighteen month old child “Melmel” and lives off the welfare system and child support she gets. Due to the abusive lifestyle that she has experienced as well, she has taken a larger toll, physically and psychologically, than a lot of thirty-seven year old women. Katie herself has experienced difficulties with her being sexually abused in the first grade that has affected her life. Therefore, the involvement of Katie’s extended family is huge. Her grandmother plays a role in being an additional caregiver in her life. Social problems seem to be an everyday occurrence for the Brindle’s as they try to live their everyday lives. As a result, Katie acts older than her age (nine years) due to the added responsibility of trying to take care of herself at times. Ms. Brindle’s parenting style of natural growth may have affected how mature Katie is, but it the Katie’s past and current environment that has had a greater influence in her

The novel, Girl, Interrupted is a memoir of author Susana Kaysen’s life and her journey through early adulthood as she suffered with Borderline Personality Disorder. The novel captures her time at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric hospital located in Belmont, Massachusetts. Kaysen divides the novel into separate anecdotes of events and fellow patients she encountered during the two years she was admitted at Mclean.

Alex Morgan was a very active girl as a kid. In fact, she played in multiple sports. She went to every practice and game. In other words, the sports that she played in were softball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, and even dance. In same fashion, her parents influenced her by letting her try new things. They also let her pick the sport that she liked the best. As a result, she was taught how to be responsible, caring, nice, but most importantly to be a confident person when she was young by her parents. To sum up, Alex was a very active little girl because she played in a lot of sports and she was influenced by her parents in the right

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor was an inspiring autobiography. She showed talent, dependence, and strong will throughout her life and in how she dealt with others. She shows great leadership qualities that she seems to have been born with, a knack at providing authentic leadership, and she has inspired me in my life. Throughout the book she proved over and again that she has leadership qualities and abilities, even from a young age.

Alice Green, a Caucasian, middle-aged female, is a school guidance counselor who seems to have a serious drinking problem. Alice is married to Michael, who is an airline pilot. Alice is most often lighthearted and loving. However, when Alice drinks alcohol she tends to be reckless and can be neglectful toward her family. Alice has two children, a nine-year-old daughter named Jess, from a previous marriage, and a four-year-old daughter named Casey, whose father is Michael. It is not until a serious accident, that Alice realizes that she has "hit rock bottom". She and Michael decide together that she needs help dealing with her alcohol addiction and Alice goes to a rehabilitation facility.

It is evident that Abby has limited psychosocial development based upon Taylor’s observations. Abby demonstrates feelings of inferiority. As Berk states in the text, in this psychosocial stage of Industry vs. Inferiority, children should learn to work and cooperate with others at school” (Berk, 2012). However, based upon Taylor’s observations of Abby as well as her discussion with Abby’s teachers, Abby chooses to remain isolated in both work and play opportunities. It is apparent that Abby is still developing in this stage rather than having achieved it. Her interactions with her peers are limited and unnatural. A possible solution that Taylor saw for Abby was to encourage her to get involved by Taylor actually interacting and playing with

As Auden was growing up she was a well-behaved child because her older brother Hollis was the troublemaker in the family. Auden’s parents would take her places and dinners because they knew that she would not make a commotion. Auden placed a high emphasis on her education because it was learned behavior from her parents, who were a professor and a writer. Her father named her Auden after the famous poet, then when he had a child with his second wife Heidi he named her Thisbe, which comes from Shakespeare. At the start of the summer, Auden is just like her mother in many ways. Auden’s main concern is her GPA, grades and being the best, which is a lot like her mother whose main concern is her work. Auden grew to be an extremely smart person,

A psychopath seeks to destroy your self-worth and self-esteem through cruel and methodical mind manipulation. In her book, Dangerous Liaisons: How to Recognize and Escape from Psychopathic Seduction, Claudia Moscovici writes about psychopaths and how they seduce women. She reveals the process of psychopathic seduction: Idealize, Devalue, and Discard. Let’s examine Nakia’s abusive relationship using the Idealize, Devalue, and Discard phases, so we can observe how a psychopath operates.

From the very beginning Nancy was not like other children. From the moment she was born she was known for her temper; started with screaming and moved to vicious tempura tantrums. By time she was in elementary school she continually focused her rage at her younger sister and threatened to stab her baby sitter with a pair of scissors. Later in her elementary school years she tried to beat her psychiatrist when the woman belittled her actions as being nothing but a stunt to get attention. She was soon expelled from her public elementary school for ditching and was placed into a private school, which led to her running away and cutting her wrists in an attempt to commit suicide. By time she was 15 she was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

A major influence on Alice's identity was when she was a young child and her grandmother would tell her stories about events that occurred in Cambodia. In Alice's teenage years, her beloved grandmother has a stroke, developed disabilities and eventually had passed away. It is around this time where serious psychological problems occur for Alice. This almost forces her into a mental state in which she knows she does not fit in with the Australian culture. She believed she had to do everything she could to change that otherwise Alice knew she would break down mentally. Alice was forced to attempt to fit the social standards of Australia.

Gone Girl (written by Gillian Flynn) and The Girl on The Train (written by Paula Hawkins) are two mystery thriller novels and New York Times Best Sellers, both receiving ‘Goodreads choice Awards Best Mystery and Thriller’. Critics have addressed the newfound novel, The Girl on The Train as being a dub for Gone Girl, which was published three years prior to The Girl on The Train. The two of the books, have a story line basis to be classified as psychological suspense novels, typically containing the sense of crime or peril, centred on the main character’s unstable emotional states. The purpose of this lecture is to compare, contrast and evaluate the two texts, observing the effectiveness of the writers’ language choices throughout the books.