Life Interrupted By Marie Pinschmidt

In the story “The Student’s Wife” written Raymond Carver tells about the difficulties and problem in the relationship between Nan and Mike. Carson descriptively describes Nan, the wife, who is a mother that is full of responsibilities for taking care of her family and be the financial supporter in the family, and Mike, the husband, who is a student and in need of receiving enough sleep for the next day. The author explained that the character's are facing their own difficulties because Nan is going through a rough time and stressing about life since she wantss a luxurious, easy going life; meanwhile Mike is trying to his best to satisfy his wife and be there for her, but at the same time he wants to get enough rest. In the short story, the characters life encompasses confinement, desperation, and powerlessness.

Through my understanding of the book, Homeward Bound by Elaine Tyler May explores two traditional depictions of the 1950s, namely suburban domesticity and anticommunism. She intertwines both historical events into a captivating argument. Throughout the book, May aims to discover why “Post-war Americans accepted parenting as well as marriage with so much zeal” unlike their own parents and children. Her findings are that the “cold war ideology and domestic revival” were somewhat linked together. She saw “domestic containment” as an outgrowth of frights and desires that bloomed after the war. However, psychotherapeutic services were as much a boom then as now, and helped offer “private and personal solutions to social problems.” May reflects her views on the origin of domestic containment, and how it affected the lives of people who tried to live by it.

In Everyday Use Historical Criticisms explores the disconnection that people can sometimes have depending on their education. Alice Walker successfully shows the disconnection by comparing two ends of the spectrum of generation. Taking the historical context it plays a major role in the way this short story is viewed. It was a time where people of color had a different and difficult experience getting an education. When the narrator was talking about having an education it was important because she wanted to be on a television show her success and how far she went. However Dee see’s her mother and Maggie differently as if they don’t know how to appreciate heritage as an art. For example when she wanted the quilts that were suppose to go

The story literary states that the narrator’s husband is loving, caring and kind, but by the context clues it can be denoted that her husband is a high-ranking physician who is obsessively controlling. This contrasting aspects expresses the narrator's hopefulness, that is constantly contradicted by its reality. However, this helplessness does not make her less confident, as she acknowledges her mental illness and disagrees with her family’s ideas of secluding her in order to “heal”, as stated when she says, “Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me

In the essay, “The Storyteller,” Sandra Cisneros describes different aspects that happened throughout her life. For example, she talks about family traditions, her independence, how her father didn’t agree with her decision to become a writer. Cisneros also describes about how passionate she is about her writing and how she was a teacher. Her father wanted her to be a weather girl on television or get married and have babies. Even with all the criticism of her father Cisneros still managed to live her life as she wanted. Cisneros also emphasizes how important it was for her to have her own space and privacy. Cisneros didn’t let anyone make choices you don’t want to do, always do what you want to make yourself happy and not anyone else.

In 1985 the Bechdel test was created by Alison Bechdel to test if a fictional piece had a significant amount of female involvement (Bechdel). The test is as followed: two women, who are given names, must converse with each other about anything excluding a man. Surprisingly many movies throughout the history of film fail the Bechdel test. Currently in Hollywood the test highlights a problematic situation, the lack of equality regarding male and female roles in film and females constantly being portrayed as secondary characters. Many scholars have taken this into account, analyzing this issue and discussing potential reasoning for this

Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten is a fiction book. This book shows the overall all theme of taking the ultimate risks to save someone you love. Danielle is a mother to her child Max who is Autistic, but lately she notices that he has been very violent, so she does everything possible to make sure that Max is taken care of in the best way possible, which starts with taking Max to a psychiatric hospital for a solution to this problem. Danielle is in denial when the hospital shows that Max is in fact a damaged boy. But in Danielle’s eyes she sees him differently, she doesn't want to believe that her son is crazy, but what happens when it's standing right in front of her. Max is accused of murdering one of the patients, but when Danielle

Can travelling be merely a change in motion and place? While moving around to other places does open up new discoveries, it is also able to open people’s hearts and minds to change. In My Life on the Road (2015), Gloria Steinem writes about how travelling on the road from childhood to the present day has impacted her lifelong career. Huck Finn’s perspective on society changes as Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), progresses. Although in one instance the character goes from a sedentary life to one of constant movement, and the other from a life of movement to one that is temporarily sedentary, the change in motion and maturity prompts major changes for both Huck and Gloria. While the authors did write their

Life is full of ups and downs, happiness and sadness, heartaches and heartbreaks but in the end, we need to learn to overcome it. Sadness, disappointment, heartbreak, heartache, loss, and anger are all emotions that can kill you inside and really mess you up and different ways. The book The Worst Thing She Ever Did was written by Alice Kuipers which was published in 2007 and is a very inspirational book for high school students. It is about a 15/16-year-old girl Sophie and is written from parts in her diary. Sophie just recently lost her older sister in a bombing and is struggling to overcome her emotions. When you let emotions take over your body and control you, it does not end well. In the book, The worst thing she ever did Sophie proves that no matter how much heartbreak or problems occur in your life you need to learn to overcome it. Starting from Sophie being quiet, miserable, isolated, she went to being happy and outgoing.

I recently got done reading a book called The Unnamables by Ellen Booraem, and I have read the whole book. In that book, there were three main characters named Medford, Prudy, and Goatman. This book is about an island, and everything on this island has a name. Things that are given a name, are supposed to live up to that name and do nothing more or less than that name. For example, their island is called Island, their city hall is called City Hall and so forth. People are also given names that they are to live up to, like Baker, Pickler, Carver, and so forth. I think this book takes place in the past. The reason I think this, is because the people in this story uses words like thou, thus, and phrases like "I fare well". The main character,

The short story “Story of an Hour”, by Kate Choplin, is about Mrs. Mallard, and her heart condition. She is in critical condition that everyone treats her carefully. When her family discovers her husband, Mr. Mallard, got killed in an accident, they approach the bad news to Mrs. Mallard in a gentle way. Mrs. The devastating news leaves Mrs. Mallard heartbroken, depressed, and non-empathetic.

This article is meant to help those who are suffering have a positive mentality because it hold many beautiful reminders. Although Brooke’s accident was life changing, not just for her but for her family as well, she was very optimistic during her hardship. Brooke’s mother, Jean, lived her life just for Brooke because she refused to give up on her daughter. After the ancident they both had to accommodate their lives to overcoming Brooke’s daily challenges and pursuing her career. It is absolutely admiring how Jean devoted her life to helping Brooke ahieve her everyday goals.

This is associated with depression since most caretakers are forced to give up their jobs, and stay home to care for their terminally ill relatives. To make matter worse, caregivers are more likely to lack or have limited health insurance due to the fact that they left their job and they are likely to suffer health issues themselves both physically and mentally. The study was conducted to prove when caregivers’ needs are not met via assistance when taking care of terminally ill family members it becomes an expanding problem with risk associated with their responsibilities. Naturally, the unmet needs of these caregivers and the increased levels of burden are risk factors for burnout which is shown through multiple workloads, self-sacrifice and even keeping feelings to oneself. Fleming emphasizes that poor family support or intervention coupled with increased anxiety and physical illness increase caregiver risk as well. The study points out the information to ease the burden of caregiving including help from the physician, financial relief in the form of a tax credit, effective and compassionate communication and counselling. Nevertheless, it should have focused more on the individual needs of the caregiver as they change over the course of the time spent taking care of the care recipient. That is to say, actors associated with more successful interventions are the extent to which they are tailored to the needs of the individual and address issues to do with subjective burden (Brodarty,

The targeted audience for my thesis is patients, friends, and family members going through or with someone who has the disease. Caregiving for someone with Alzheimer’s disease can be tough physically and emotionally. Becoming well informed about the disease is the first step to deciding the type of care giving a person chooses for their loved one.

Throughout this paper I will be using Ella, the grandmother from the Introduction to the Miller Family as an example to provide information on how to prove the best care and support in these types of situations. (Smith, 2013) Ella has been diagnosed with breast cancer and has been treating it naturally. She has chosen to treat naturally because she grew up on a farm and believes in natural healing verse modern medicine. She is married to John who is an American Indian and her family is a very diverse family. She has a fairly large family and Ella’s breast cancer affects not only her emotionally and symptomatically but her family who are each affected differently per individual.