Last Night Together : A Comparison : Their Last Night Together

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.

As told through her mother’s perspective, one will learn that Trina is a eighteen year old female of African-American decent and resides with her mother in Los Angeles, California. Trina’s parents, Keri and Clyde, provide their daughter with an upper/upper middle class lifestyle due to her father’s sudden successful career and her mother’s successful resale clothing business in Los Angeles. This well rounded and beautiful adolescent has recently graduated from high school with high grades and was accepted to Brown University, however, due to her summer manic episodes, Trina has not attended college yet.

From here we can start seeing many bad choices and decisions Tracy commits: as lying to mother about tattoos and piercings, rejects old friends, misses classes, and even do drugs. These activities were greatly influenced by Evie, and how much Tracy wanted to be accepted in the group. This peer pressure is also demonstrated when Evie and Tracy invite over two popular boys from sch ool to Evie´s house.

While in foster care she adapts to new dysfunctional homes and with new rules. She had an unhealthy relationship with her first foster’s mom boyfriend and that foster mom shot her in the shoulder. She was starved in another foster home and began using

This is the beginning of a new, yet complicated life for Oscar. It is not going to be as easy as it was for him to get girl’s attention when he was seven years old. He met a girl who was weird just like him. They began to do things together and that’s when Oscar was starting to have feelings the girl named Ana. When they would go out to hang out “they headed out to either a

Dora remains unobedient as she skips class in complaint of drowsiness. Her grades begin to drop and suspiciously, Elena observes Dora hiding some pills under her tongue and then throwing them in the bushes. During these tough times, Elena befriends an outcast, Jimmy Zenk, who has an older brother that has the same problems Dora has. Jimmy cautions about the hospital Dora is at, Lorning Memorial Hospital, from his personal experience. Elena feels that it has always been her duty to protect her sister, even though she’s younger.

For the most part, Elyn had a normal childhood with loving parents. However, as early as the age of 8 years old she began to experience some early symptoms such as intense compulsions, night terrors and even believing that houses were putting thoughts into her head. At twelve years old she stopped eating properly and lost a lot of weight. Even at a young age, Elyn believed that there was something terribly wrong with her and did her best to hide her condition from her family. As a teenager Elyn briefly experimented with drugs and was sent by her parents to an intense drug rehab after-school program which taught her that psychotropic drugs of any kind are bad and that any personal obstacle can be overcome with sheer force of will. In part due to this lesson that Elyn learned early on, she spent decades resisting medications outright or secretly reducing her dosages after agreeing to take medications. This reminded me of the importance of assessing the meaning behind taking medications with clients.

Eliza limped towards the lake. She didn’t know why she wanted to be there so bad anymore, her leg was throbbing and blood was pooling around her. She felt weak and she was shivering even though it was easily over ninety degrees outside. She looked back at the city she had come from. There was no longing to return as she stared at the towering buildings behind her. Her mom, of course, had exhausted that feeling away from her. Eliza turned back around, she could see her lake now. Half unconscious, she half ran, half stumbled to the makeshift bench her and her dad had made when she was five. When she reached it, she sat down with a thump, tears streaming from her eyes and down her cheeks. How did things end up so badly? She looked down and watched

The guilt washed over me like a tidal wave obliterating everything in its wake; my mind racing as my 15-year-old brain replayed every interaction looking for the signs that Skylar must have left, the hints she wanted me to catch on to. The more I thought about it the more I felt as if I had let her down. I had kept her secret and in the end in trying to save her I lost her. I felt alone, but this time I couldn’t seek refuge with her, how could she save me when she couldn’t help herself.

Evaluate: In this situation, me can observe that Caleb appreciates a lot Ava and he will do anything, even risk his own life, to save her. She manipulates him with her fake emotions and with pity to answer to her one and only desire: escape from her housing. As a innocent, Caleb all trust what Ava told her, that they would escape together, and this element will play in Caleb's back, whitch means he won't even notice the game and the lies Ava i telling him.

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

Every minute that passed by, she got more and more upset. Charlotte didn’t want to keep bugging her, but she wanted to help her. Charlotte and Taylor had been very close friends since Charlotte was born. Taylor would always come over to her house and they would play games together. Both of them enjoyed it a lot, but for the past couple months, Taylor had been very stressed and nervous about her Homecoming, because she was nominated for Homecoming queen, and she was behind by a lot of votes. That is why she had been upset all the time. The more she checked, the more anxious she got because she was losing all of the votes. She was also reading all of the bad comments people had sent to

Luce’s first day at her new school was eventful. Luce is one among four new kids coming into the school. She is running late and she comes in after the orientation started. She joins the group of students that are being lead by an instructor. The instructor gives Luce the base of what she needs to know. Then a girl named Arriane is assigned to give Luce a tour of the school and tell her what is expected of her. Arriane is very outspoken and crazy. Arriane asks Luce to cut her hair off so Luce does, that’s when Luce noticed of scars on the back of Arriane’s neck. They promise each other that if one doesn’t ask about the past the other won’t either. After her tour they go sit around other students and that’s when Luce spots Daniel. Daniel is very handsome and Luce cannot take her eyes off of him.

We were both sitting on the blue, sticky, leather, seats in the waiting room of the Northeast Central Hospital when the doctor got the results. Last week was Vanessa’s last few days of chemotherapy and to finish up the week with a MRI. Friday was the day we found out if Vanessa was tomer free. “Mrs. White and Vanessa, please follow me down the hall to Dr. Walt’s room,” said the young receptionist. We walked down the hall, turned right and two doors down was room two hundred forty four, Dr. Walt’s room. The door let out a faint creak as the receptionist opened it. “Please sit down and make yourself comfortable while I go get Dr. Walt,“ the young lady said with a smile. Vanessa sat down on the paper covered, examination table while I sat in

Overall, the female and male versions of the tragicomedy show, “The Odd Couple”, had many similarities and had had the same basic story lines. The main character, Felix and Florence, each were going through a divorce. They each move in with their friend, Oscar and Olive, because they have also recently went through a divorce and feel lonely living in such a huge place alone. The friends of both Felix and Florence are concerned that they would kill themselves at the beginning of the show; they both swallowed a bottle of green pills, but ended up getting them out of their system before it did any harm to them. Felix and Florence end up being extremely emotional clean freaks while Oscar and Olive are more chill and sloppy, these differences caused confrontations with them living together. They try to ease the tension by going on dates with Eventually it becomes too much and Oscar and Olive kick Felix and foreigners that live in the same building as them. During their “date”, both Felix and Florence tell their dates about the problems and they end up crying together over their past spouses. Florence out, where there run away to the foreign couple that they meet earlier in the show. The Show ends the same way it begins, with the guys at their guys night and the girls at their girls night.