Peter Cowan School

Disconnection and isolation is portrayed throughout the film between Richard and his brother. The negative sense of belonging, where someone feels isolated; found among the marginalised and

After Pollock graduated, she went back to her middle school and saw all the sad kids. She felt emotional by seeing her own reflection, saying: “I wasn’t surprised to find my younger self crying at the back of this or that classroom, or starting up at some adult whose behavior had left me baffled, or wandering the gloomy stairwells, wondering if I would ever find my way out to a sunnier, less confusing, less confining life outside.” (113) I feel

Ascher also uses valuable description and imagery to reflect on the nature of solitude. She uses specific details to interpret her observations effectively. Ascher expresses the Box Man’s behavior with much detail. She shows us how high his collar was by stating, “His collar was pulled so high that he appeared headless…” as well as specifically telling us how the Box Man preferred his boxes by stating, “...he began to sort through the boxes, picking them up, one by one, inspecting top, insides, flaps… dropped it in a doorway.”. Ascher displays imagery by using figurative language to describe the many characteristics and actions of the Box Man and she details all the observations she has made about the Box Man’s night. The author wants us to perceive how happy one can be in solitude like the Box Man by specifically describing the events that took place and using imagery so the reader can construe her vision clearly. Moreover, Ascher shows us the women who eats soup’s nightly venture. She says in much details exactly how the women orders her dinner and how the she eats the soup by taking the extra Saltine crackers she receives and breaking

This story represents both physical and emotional alienation as the separation of the younger brother was detrimental to both. In the story it states “For 20 years the little family I left behind wondered if I was alive, where I was and what I was like.” (81) showing that the family was deprived and missed the physical presence of the younger brother. They had no clue on what kind of a person he was and little to no recollection of his existence. The same thing can be said about the younger brother having no recollection of his family as he was taken away from a very young age. It was after twenty years, that the older brother was able to track the younger brother home; however the damage was already done. The older brother became quieter and more refined as he was deprived from a healthy brother relationship as stated by the author “It was hardest on my brother”(81). Also, the younger brother was completely isolated from his true family from an age of four, thus affecting him dearly as the author writes “… we don’t get that much time to visit anymore … brothers who never had the chance to age together” (82). The author also writes “At first it was tentative … we didn’t talk much” (82) showing how the isolation of the younger brother resulted in minimal conversations and alienated

It was a free drawing activity, where we could draw anything we wished to. The boys always drew cars and robots on the blank canvas given to us, while girls usually drew nature with animals. On my blank sheet of paper, I wanted to draw a natural scene with flowers and puppies; however, in order to be accepted; I drew cars and robots instead. Needless to say, my cars and robots did not turn out too well at all. In this example, George’s morals, as a child, are on a huge blank canvas, undefiled by the world. However, in my case, through the peer pressures, I drew something I did not want to draw. Meanwhile, through the influence of his mother, George becomes someone he does not want to be. When George stole, he feels uneasy and is described as having “closed faces and hard eyes,” (Sebold, 188) which shows tremendous doubt on his part. Even though, George does not want to steal, he does it anyway in order to gain the acceptance of his mother, while I simply drew cars and robots in order to gain the acceptance of my peers.

White sets the tone for the piece by informing the audience of his “increasing admiration for the teacher in the country school.” This simple beginning statement puts a positive image of country schools into the readers’ minds without too harshly pushing his opinion upon them, which could in turn, result in alienation of the audience. By using this technique, White is able to begin to persuade readers without them even realizing

A deadly war causes a mother to look frantically for her children after their separation. An isolated child sits alone while the other children play and laugh. A father holds his son’s hands before he passes on his deathbed. Isolation and separation causes many depression and heartbreak. Isolation is not a choice, but separation is, it causes many to create barriers and to move away. Fitzgerald and Chua both explore these ideas of separation and Isolation in The Great Gatsby and “love song, with two goldfish”. In The Great Gatsby and “Love song, with two goldfish” Isolation and separation negatively affects the characters because of time, obsession, and wealth/status.

The essay goes into great detail of his relationship with his father. He describes his father as cruel (65), bitter (65), and beautiful (64). He does mention the bad in length. On the flip side, he tells us some of the good as well. Throughout his storytelling, the reader gets a glimpse into his life and the way he feels. His feelings evolve during the extent of the essay.

In the short story “Miss Brill”, the primary conflict is internal between herself: “But today she passed the baker’s boy, climbed the stairs, went into the little dark room—her room like a cupboard—and sat down on the red eiderdown. She sat there for a long time… But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying” (Mansfield 105). Miss Brill realizes she is no longer a part of the youth. She old, and now sees herself as isolated from the play she used to be part of. She “heard something crying” (Mansfield 105). This, results an internal conflict with herself of how she feels. Likewise, “The Yellow Wallpaper” also plays an internal conflict between herself: “I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal—having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition” (Gilman 473). The protagonist is living further away from society where she is treated as an individual, isolated by others, even her baby. She is given limited opportunities controlled by her husband and her brother as an attempt to do what’s best for her as a sick woman. They both force her to accept the idea of her own thoughts do not qualify reality, which represents the insanity of loneliness.

Instructed to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, which is also her doctor, who believes he knows what is best for her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness. Everyday she keeps looking at the torn yellow wallpaper. While there, she is forbidden to write in her journal, as it indulges her imagination, which is not in accordance with her husband's wishes. Despite this, the narrator makes entries in the journal whenever she has the opportunity. Through these entries we learn of her obsession with the wallpaper in her bedroom. She is enthralled with it and studies the paper for hours. She thinks she sees a woman trapped behind the pattern in the paper. The story reaches its climax when her husband must force his way into the bedroom, only to find that his wife has pulled the paper off the wall and is crawling around the perimeter of the room.

In Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing on ‘The ones Who Walk Away From Omelas’ explains how the little child had been isolated from the people of the town while Nathaniel Hawthorne through ‘Young Goodman Brown’ illustrates Goodman Brown reactions as a result of the Devil’s actions which made him feel depressed by his own family’s actions. Been isolated from the outside world or from the truth has led to one profiting from the unruly act that is alienation. Alienation is the drastic difference between someone experiencing something that socially benefits others and someone who does not because of lack of common values or sheer discernment. Ursula K. Le Guin in her writing explores this aspect of alienation, discernment by the community members of Omelas towards the child whereas Nathaniel Hawthorne, shows how someone can benefit from alienation, in this case; the devil knew Goodman Brown was naïve about his family’s history which he was alienated from, therefore took the advantage to show him their true evil ways of living.

The mental struggle and impetuous behavior about her unhappiness make her stretch out her feelings onto her surroundings, especially the wallpaper, which becomes a symbolic feature of her situation. She feels sad whenever she thinks about her condition of both depression and condition in general within her oppressive marriage.

He was probably worn out after from playing soccer and going to school all week with no chance to feel like he was caught up in life. He always made me think about how homework was for me when I was younger and in elementary school. He remined me how I struggled in school to get my schoolwork done and do any sports after school. When the author writes “Everywhere we see students getting burned out, dropping out of other activities, and become sluggish and overweight”. This makes me think about when I was younger and stopped playing intermural soccer at amuse Herr park after school because of how I felt overwhelmed by doing all my homework along with playing soccer.

This effect is demonstrated through the protagonist’s dislocation of being a father, and husband. The narrator’s perspective of being a parent has deteriorated, resulting in his perception that he’s merely become a financial lifeline for his children and spouse. Yet this allows them to live life in comfort, and not undergo what he must. The protagonist’s desire to fulfill the role of a father has become an unattainable concept due to the incapability to express his emotional or mental struggles. Macleods protagonist at face first is resilient too the challenges of his isolated work life. Yet the deep desire to express himself to another has become forgotten. This is understood due being surrounded by other workers who have also forgotten to express themselves, making self-expression a forgotten skill. If the need for communication in the workplace arises, it is done with “a nod, grunt or reading of familiar lips”. In which Macleod narrator literally forgets how to express himself to his family, yet finds the means of self expression through his ancestral culture, which is contrary to Thiens, where culture pushes

In the story the author portrays the protagonist differently from the other characters because she talks about the physical appearance of other characters and when it comes to the narrator we have no idea what she looks like but she is developed partially through her relationship with other characters, although we the readers do come the find out that the narrator is around the age of 15-17 years old and we can assume that she has a bad relationship with her parents because first of all she talks about them maybe once or twice in the whole story and second of all we know that they sent her to boarding school so that alone proves that her relationship with them is lacking. As readers we also know that she has trouble opening up in the story she say “To open your heart. You open your legs but can’t, or don’t dare anyone, to open your heart” (237). This is a prime example of how author characterizes the protagonist as broken and emotionally damaged. And as the story progress the author becomes more honest with us the readers and herself, she starts the reveal the pain she is in and how lonely she feels. The narrator gives us an example of how she feels after sex by saying “After sex, you curl up like a shrimp, something deep inside you ruined, slammed in a place that sickness at