Mikaela's Mistakes

When a child experiences trauma, it stays with them for the rest of their life. When a child experiences abuse, one of the highest forms of trauma, they can do little to stop it from affecting everything they do. Tobias Wolff’s memoir, This Boy’s Life, Illustrates this. While it can be said that Rosemary, the mother of Jack, was in many ways responsible for his life, she herself can not solely be blamed. The trauma and abuse she experienced as a child contributed greatly to her choices, and her son’s life. This shows that adversity in Rosemary’s life lead to her not being able to act normally, and this caused the life of her son.

Evan engages in negative behaviors that attract trouble, and these acts create feelings of fear among the people in his environment. His mother does not understand him, his father cannot control him, and his teachers are afraid of him. Hence, he is left to struggle with the emotional tortures that torment him since no one understands nor is courageous enough to tame his bad behaviors. He lights up the fire just to see how it burns; in this case, we see the destructive side of him because fire is a sign of danger and if not supervised, it might result in massive destruction of both life and property . Furthermore; he attacked a young boy nearly choking him to death, he tries to cash out his father's cheque without his knowledge, he pours paint in his teacher's office and also flees from school after he is busted smoking. Surprisingly, the film's title is entirely the opposite of the real situation since Evan is not the one with the problem, but his parents Mike and Karin are the roots to their son's problem (Papeghin, 2012). Besides recording Evan's weird behaviors, the secret cameras often recorded Mike and Karin arguing and shouting at each other and directing their feelings of anger to Evan who is their firstborn and only son.

The father’s drinking and the mother’s temper result from the emotional impact of the devastating accident. The family eventually had to move to other city because they could not bear living their anymore because of the car accident. Not only did the accident affect the mom and dad, it affected the children.

He always thought his father was going to save him and take him away. As time passed by, he saw that things were just getting worse between his mother and him and his father wouldn’t do nothing about it. He lost hope and didn’t care about anything. But he started to dream at night that one day he would get out of the hell hole he was living in. He realized that if he wanted to survive he would have to be strong and beat his mother at her torturing games. He just kept thinking to himself one day I will get out of here. He started building a self-esteem. He started realizing what was happening wasn’t his fault and one day decided to tell someone at school.

During her childhood, Aileen’s parents had a violent marriage and ultimately set up Aileen’s turmoil filled life. She was raised by her grandparents the majority of her life. Her father killed himself

He was used to live in his brother’s shadow, but when the boat accident happened to them, he was the only one to survive. As he was always indentifying himself the less important one, he considered it was wrong that he was the one who would still have a life. As a result of nervous breakdown, he tried to kill himself with cutting his wrists in the bathroom, fortunately his father found out and save him. Then he went to the psychiatric for four months. When he comes back, there are still issues he needs to deal with.

Aileen was engaging in prostitution, forgery, theft, and armed robbery. During this time Aileen attempted suicide. Aileen was a wreck emotionally and physically. This was due to her doping, drinking, and self-destructive lifestyle. In 1986, Aileen met twenty-four year old Tyria Moore at a gay bar in Daytona, Florida. Aileen was lonely, angry, and ready for a change, something new. Tyria and Aileen hit it off. Things were great for the couple for a while. Tyria loved Aileen so much she quit her job as a motel maid and let Aileen support them with her prostitution income. Due to Aileen’s income, the couple didn’t make it long before they started having money issues. Even with these problems, Tyria did not leave Aileen. Tyria would move with Aileen from one cheap motel to another. It wasn’t long before Aileen decided she would have to rob her John’s and then kill them to make ends meet.

how much of a man he was. After he hit his father, he felt a sense of pride as if he won a prize of some sort. The act was more selfish than selfless being that he was not thanked for it. After the incident, he looks at his sisters for validation for his actions but he has never seen the difference between them or separate the roles of them from their mother. His misogynistic views are passed down from his father and this is due to his immaturity and lack of exposure to the independent world.

hostile environment his father sought to escape. His mother betrayed him as she never embraced

father was murdered by a white man. After his father's death his mother had a nervous

After that experiences she felt bad and started to understand why she made her Abuela feel like a zero, which she can change about herself. As this example and others will show, life experiences can from and create characters and value, in your life over time. In the story, “Martin”written by Nick C Vaca, it started out in San Francisco; where the author, Nick c

Screams filled the air. Only then did Jessie Grant realize they were his. He had been having this dream for some time, his dad’s and mom’s death. Before they boarded a cruiser when he was seventeen, his parents were his best friends, now he had nothing.

The dramatic irony of Michael’s moral culpability is thus the catalyst for his psychological trauma. “It was explained to me that in the end, Michael Holtzapfel was worn down not by his damaged hand or any other injury, but by the guilt of living.” (pt 10: the ninety eighth day) Traumatised by the image of his death brother, Michael commits suicide, perplexed that his desire to live persisted even after witnessing the courageous displays of sacrifice and suffering when in battle. The incessant bleeding from the injury he received during battle can be perceived as his draining will to live. The episodes of bleeding usually occur when he recoils the account of his brother’s death, leading to the possibility that the strains of guilt are eating away at him. “Why do I want to live? I shouldn't but I do.” (p. 487) This indicated that his grapple with guilt was an ongoing

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you somebody who has never achieved much” –Joan Collins. While all of us try and do the very best we possibly can, there are times when we make mistakes. Making blunders usually have a negative correlation but as Joan Collins stated, without mistakes you would never achieve anything. So, in the mind of a Pollyanna, even the biggest mistakes happen for a reason and can be beneficial in the end.

Mikage decides to make Yuichi a mangnificent feast to cheer him up after Eriko’s death. When Yuichi tells