Insane?-Personal Narrative

In the beginning of the narrative, Sarah demonstrates characteristics of bewilderment. Sarah, a 16-year-old high-school dropout, is rethinking her life as she says, “Maybe my whole life I’ve been living inside of an imaginary painting” (King 54). Sarah is confused and feels that her childhood was a lie. The readers realize along with her that her parents put on an act to protect her from the fact that they do not get along. This communicates the sense of feeling trapped within lies thought to be true and addresses the message to society that the root of the problem is always bigger than what is expected. Similarly, Sarah asserts her latest assessment regarding herself and her mental state saying, “I am not going crazy. I do not need a psychologist. I decide I am an artist inside of a tornado that will not let me go” (King 128). Sarah decides she is in a mental state where she cannot portray her feelings. She uses this excuse of being stuck in a tornado to reject the fact that ultimately she will need to get her life back on track and accept who she is. This is another one of Sarah’s shenanigans to try to be original, and by doing this, she finds a reason to avert from being a “normal” person. People today encounter the same situation in everyday life by using excuses to get around inevitable things. Sarah’s manifestation of change continues in the middle of the story as well.

My insanity case is People v. Wilbur, 226 Ill. App. 3d 733 (3rd Dist. 1992). In this case, the defendant was a 14-year-old being charged as an adult for a murder that happened in 1988. It was said that child showed that he didn’t regret what he had done. The child admitted to the crime. The defendant’s expert witness said that the child suffered from schizophrenia and that he has heard “voices” in his head. The jury came to the verdict of guilty but mentally ill. The 14-year-old was sentenced to 60 years in prison. The trial court case was appealed is now in the hands of the Appellate Court of Illinois. Two expert witnesses disagreed on the defendant’s state of mind at the time of the murder. One saying that he was able to conform his acts to the law. The other saying, he was not. (pg. 736). The Appellate Court affirmed the trial court’s decision.

I don’t want to go back there! It’s full of phonies!” then I stormed upstairs into the attic. I felt so depressed, I just want to talk to Phoebe. There were a lot of things that I left in the attic before I was sent to boarding school so I figured that I’d go through it. I opened the boxes to find, papers, clothes, magazines, and Allie’s baseball mitt. The mitt was still the same color brown but in the inside, the poems that Allie wrote were starting to fade. The words on the inside were barely there anymore all that was left were a few letters here and there. I couldn’t remember any of the poems. I just started to cry and scream out loud out of nowhere and I could not stop. I felt like my insides were being ripped out of me. My body was numb when Phoebe came home and heard me upstairs. I don’t want her to see me like

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet each of the characters face many trials and tribulations throughout the play. Hamlet, the main character, suffers the most. While Hamlet deals with all of the problems he faces, he becomes mentally unstable. Some believe that Hamlet just feigned madness while others believe that he actually became insane. Hamlet began to face insanity after the marriage of his mother and uncle and his problems only became worse which leads to Hamlet truly becoming insane.

Constitution and declares, “Now, no talking, no cheating, no breathing, I better not see a muscle move in your body other than your hand to write on your test!”

                They stop and stare, take one look into her eyes and realize they hold their own story. She's the type of girl people would look at and think, "Wow, she's beautiful. I wish I was her." But, little did they know that this beauty was on the outside, but pain was killing her on the inside. She faked a smile, day by day, but she often wondered if people ever noticed her silent cries for help. Along the way, she realized she forgot how it felt to be happy.

She would dwell and manifest herself as worthless. Though, if life was going good, it was never enough for her. She had low self-esteem and was often teased. Growing up, it was hard to make friends. She focused too much on how others viewed her.

In the beginning of the novel Sarah demonstrates characteristics of bewilderment. Sarah, a 16 year old high-school dropout, is rethinking her life as she says, “Maybe my whole life I’ve been living inside of an imaginary painting” (King, 54). Sarah is confused and feels that her childhood was a lie. The readers realize along with her that her parents put on an act to protect her from the fact that they hate each other. This communicates the sense of feeling trapped within lies thought to be true, and addresses the message, the root of the problem is always bigger than what is expected. Similarly, Sarah, the protagonist, asserts her latest assessment regarding herself and her mental state. She says, “I am not going crazy. I do not need a psychologist. I decide I am an artist inside of a tornado that will not let me go” (King, 128). Sarah decides she is in a mental state where she cannot portray her feelings. She uses this excuse of being stuck in a tornado to reject the fact that eventually she will need to get her life back on track and accept who she is. This is another one of Sarah’s shenanigans to try to be original, and by doing this she finding a reason to avert from being a “normal” person. People today encounter the same situation in everyday life by using excuses to get around inevitable things. Sarah’s manifestation of change continues in the middle of the story.

In the short story “Portrait of a Girl in Glass” we see that Laura “made no positive motion toward the world but stood at the edge of the water… with feet that anticipated too much cold to move” (Williams 110). On this edge, she created her own little world. Some like to live in an illusion of what they want or wish they had, while others prefer to stay in their state of misery and allow it to consume them. As it becomes familiar they start to be numb to anything until they start to be pulled out of it, though they will resist anyone who tries. Amanda Wingfield was the only person who tried on a daily basis to pull her daughter out of her lonely world. She did it out of love for her daughter, but the way Amanda went about doing it just seemed

author’s life as she grows up while developing a multitude of mental illnesses. By the end of her

It was said in the 1970 's most Psychiatric professionals predicted their own beliefs while diagnosing a patient on their mental and social suitability. Daniel Rosenhand a professor of law and psychology at Stanford has decided to take the time and do research on how patients are diagnosed accurately. Although Rosenhand was aware the major social role psychiatrists have, he was determined to figure out if the patients are really insane as they were evaluated to be.

In the story by Edgar Allen Poe an old man was mysteriously murder. A question that many people have been asking is, why? Is it because the narrator was insane, or do you think the narrator will take any responsibility for his harsh actions. I will be able to answer those questions for you.

As readers of great novels, we are continuously examining and explaining the actions and thoughts of characters. Are we the only ones? Or do the characters actually analyze their own thoughts and actions as we do? In Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, the protagonist, Werther, tells the story of his love for Lotte and the ensuing hardships through letters to his friend and confidante, Wilhelm. Through various situations and excerpts from his letters, we see Werther simply gliding through life, not pondering the motivations for his thoughts and actions, or even questioning his own state-of-mind; the effects of this lack of self-awareness negatively affect him and eventually lead him to commit suicide.

You call me mad, say I have lost my mind? A monster you think of me, I am a human being, to this do I deserve such a dull punishment? Ill I have never been, I am sane, innocent to an extreme. A cage? Countless straps drown my body. Cruel? Yes I was, I must agree, but now I’ve been punished and beg of you to set me free.

It had been a long day. Emma and David had made it to the Mirror where they arrested Sidney. Regina had suggested they put him in the basement of the hospital. That is where they kept the mentally insane, or in the past it was where the mayor liked to lock up innocent people for her own gain. This was not one of those times.