Lucid Dreams

Due to the choices that Maggie made she was able to influence the direction and outcome of her life. Maggie was a girl who was raised in nothing and landed in a dead end job, waitressing. She was barely paid enough to buy herself dinner; she would wind up grabbing the leftovers from work and having it for dinner at home. Maggie literally started from the bottom with nothing to work with. However with her persistance she was able to get Frankie to train her even though he has informed her multiple times that he does not train girls and that she is too old to be boxing.

For many centuries, people would think of dreaming as curses or blessings that we can not fend off or operate. Lucid dreaming, a dream in which a dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming; they may be able to control the dream by exert amount. In this dream stage, we perform superhuman features that would be impossible when we’re awake. While a person dreams, these wonderful things become a temporality reality. Researchers says that a average person dreams four to six times a night(insert). Many people dream every night without even realizing that their dreams can be controlled. Others might not give too much care about the dreams that they might experienced. Lucid dreaming can turn scary dreams into happy dreams, or happy dreams into more relaxed ones. This method of dreaming can provide the dreamer endless ways to control their subconscious which can provide enjoyable experiences.

She is expressed as dealing with “teenage problems” if I do say so myself a lot of issues that most teenagers have: identity, popularity, self-consciousness, and parental issues. The 14-year-old throughout her story feels a deep sense of longing for her mother as she did not know her, because she died when Lily was only 4 years old. In Chapter 1, Lily talks about how she misses her mother, and how she feels completely responsible for the fact that she doesn't have her. This quote, "This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away," is significant to the whole plot, because it helps us understand one of Lily's main concerns and desires. I myself have lost a parent at a very young age, and struggled to comprehend what happened, and how it would effect me through the course of my life. Lily Owens notices that she does not fit and is held back from that fact that her father does not care about Lily's life nor her needs. In Chapter 1, Lily indicates that she is “..worried so much about how I [she] looked and whether I [she] was doing things right, I [she] felt half the time I [she] was impersonating a girl instead of really being

“I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.” Susan Sontag was an American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist. She expresses how life and all of its conflicts can affect one’s dreams. What are dreams? In life, dreams can be experiences to look forward to, hard work at a job, or other things of the imagination. Dreams can also be something to hope for or to accomplish. Sadly, there are conflicts that can get in the way of someone reaching their dream. A person’s sex can give power or powerlessness, determine the expected behaviors of male and females, and judge a person’s appearance. In the works of To Kill A Mockingbird,

Eventually Maggie grows tired and frustrated with this situation. She devises a plan to flee Vardoe and the house which has become a prison. When she eventually carries out the plan she does it on her own. She does not even

She is now scared of roger and what he might do to her if Realm, her friend, doesn’t help her. Overall Sloane has changed throughout the book to become more dependable on the people around

When Roberta wants to talk to her about what happened to Maggie, Twyla does not want to hear about it again and forget it. Roberta make Twyla listen and says that she did want to hurt Maggie, “because she couldn’t talk—well, you know, I thought she was crazy” (213). She says it is the older girls who kicks Maggie and makes fun of her. Roberta wants the older girl to do it and take the blame to Twyla and herself because she “wanted to do it so bad that day” (213). Twyla begins to grasp on what she said and told her that they were so young and did not understand everything around them.

They both have family issues. Between Maggie’s greedy and stingy mother and siblings not supporting her in doing what she loves, and Frankie’s estranged daughter totally avoiding all of the letters he is writing her, both showed that ther family adversities were not going to get in the way of their success. Throughout the movie, Frankie became more of parent to Maggie than a mentor and friend. They both accepted roles and adopted one another as a family. Maggie had a huge fall out towards the end of the movie. She got severely injured by the Women’s World Boxing Champion, Billie. She was paralyzed from the neck down and was hospitalized for several months. She went to a rehab facility where she thought her health and injures would get better, but instead got worse. When Maggie’s family found out she was in the hospital, they immediately came to visit her. Her mother, Earline Fitzgerald was trying to act like she has been there for her through everything, but she really has not. Maggie felt awkward, annoyed, and frustrated at the fact that they were there. She told them to leave because they were acting very selfish and self-centered. After they left, Frankie came in the room to calm Maggie down and be there for her. She started feeling bad and kept making comments such as, “I want to die”, “This is the end for me”, and Frankie had no idea what to do. He felt torn apart and heartbroken that someone

These dreams bring the characters in the novel together as they try to make them a reality but as their

Dreams can have a strong, and lasting affect on people, in which can change their lives, and others lives forever. Dreams affected characters in Of Mice and Men by making Lennie strive to change his behavior, George to work hard and make important decisions, and also Candy to invest his life’s savings, and the rest of his life into the possibility of achieving their dreams. Having a dream changed the way Lennie behaved, or else he Would not have been able to tend the the rabbits if they had bought the ranch. At a point in the story, George said to Lennie “You get in trouble, you do bad things and I got to get you out. ”(SteinBeck 11)

Melissa McCarthy takes on the role of Maggie in the movie. She is a single mom trying to make it on her own providing a new lifestyle for her son Oliver. Things start getting really difficult for her because she is always working in order to give her son everything he needs and more. She is easily likeable very sweet and caring for anyone who she may meet.

Sloane met her best friend Lacey in the program, after Lacey was readmitted, and they became friends again as completely new people. Once leaving the program, in her new school where all of the patients attend, she begins to become interested in a boy named James. Her parents continuously warn her to stay away from James, but they both have a connection they can’t

The only time Maggie reveals the extent of her innermost desires is when Dee attempts to take the quilts that Mama had promised to Maggie. Maggie drops plates in the kitchen and then slams the door, outraged. Maggie does have a will, and although it is buried deep inside her, it comes through when what she desires most in the world is about to be taken away. Maggie’s character in the story is really realistic her qualities explains a lot about her she is just like a simple person who doesn’t have a lot of needs

Specific Purpose: I will inform my audience about what lucid dreaming is and how to accomplish it.

In a lucid dream, the dreamer is the writer, director, and star of the movie.