Safe Haven

Maureen also creates a dream of her own, and wants nothing more than to go back to California. Though Maureen was young when her and her family lived in California, this is the only place that she wanted to go. Jeannette and Lori tell Maureen of the great times that they had in California and explain to Maureen that she has such blonde hair because of all the gold in California, and blue eyes because of the ocean. Maureen responds, “’[California] is where I’m going to live when I grow up’” explains Walls (207). The stories that Jeannette and Lori tell are responsible for Maureen’s dream to go back to California. However, it seems that Maureen takes after her parents, and struggles to fulfill her dream. While Lori, Jeannette, and Brian go off and start their new lives, Maureen is stuck back in Welch. Lori and Jeannette decide that Maureen should move to New York with them, so they make arrangements and Maureen goes to live with Lori, and begins going to college. Things are going great up until Rex and Mary move to New York. It is at this time that Maureen seems to give up on her schooling. After Lori kicks her out, Maureen spends her days living with Rex and Mary in a squatter apartment. She wastes her days away by smoking cigarettes, reading, painting, and sometimes just sleeping away the day. Jeannette tries to help Maureen by talking to

Surprisingly, though, Ian finds her as well, after searching for her - and he thinks its Kaeleigh - and says they have to leave right away. Raeanne, still confused, believes it is about Kaeleigh, and her dying, until she starts to remember that she is Kaeleigh - but where is Raeanne? Suddenly, it comes flashing back to her that Raeanne died in the car accident so long ago.

Katie, the main character of the story, is a twenty-two year old Amish woman who lives near Lancaster County, in Hickory Hollow. Her love, Dan Fisher died four years ago. Katie is engaged to widowed Bishop John with four kids: Nancy, Hickory John, Levi, and Jacob. She feels like she is not good enough to marry such a man of authority when something inside pulls for worldly things.

It must have been awfully hard to send his beloved sister into the unknown. Nonetheless, he knew he had to take his chances. Otherwise Julie would have grown weak without the take in of calories. That was a time where Alex had to choose whose love he was going to share with which sister. I hope I never have to choose.

Alex Garcia is more suspicious than the other persons of interest because he was the last one to see Anna alive. He went to Anna’s house to discuss some paperwork, the night before Anna was found dead. It is said that Anna and Alex went through a nasty divorce. He remarried a younger woman, Erica Piedmont. They are now expecting a baby. It is said that they are having financial difficulties. Alex knows that he is still Anna’s beneficiary on her life insurance plan. It is

She opens the door to her childhood, beginning with when she was 3 years old and boiling her own hot dog by standing on top of the chair to reach the stovetop. While doing that, her pink dress catches on the fire because of which gets her horribly burned. She spends a few days in the hospitals and enjoys it too, because she is getting food on time and is not left starving. One day her dad shows up and they run off out of the hospital without paying the bills of her treatment. That night her family leaves the town and move to another place, taking as much stuff as possible with them. Most of her childhood memories involve her whole family- mom, dad, Jeanette, Lori, Brian, and later on Maureen -moving from one desert towns to another, settling in as long as her dad can hold the job. This happened more frequently due to the dad’s alcoholism coupled with his paranoia about the organized society and the state. One of the towns they stayed in was Battle Mountain, Nevada, where they spend a few months. Jeanette and her brother Brian spent many hours exploring the desert and collecting rocks. Even their mother got a job as a teacher and

The Alaskan wild, a desolate, harsh terrain that should only be navigated by knowledgeable and precise individuals. In the book Into The wild by Jon Krakauer, readers follow the journey of Alex McCandless, on his nomadic journey through the vast American country side. “To the dessert go prophets and hermits; through the desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality” (chapter 4). Alex presents extraordinary intelligence and social skills but his yearning for the outdoors overweighs the constraints of society.

In the novel, the characters withhold the truth from themselves and everyone else. “Neither knows that Kate is alive until Aron falls in love with Abra Hamilton, Sam’s daughter. Abra eventually reveals this information to Aron, who now realizes that his father has not been forthright with him.” (Shuman). Once they start telling the truth, they feel as if their lives start to align.

Sanctuary cities are communities that provide a safe haven for undocumented immigrants. These municipalities create local legislation that prohibits police officers from enforcing federal immigration laws and cooperating with federal immigration officials. (McFadyen, 2016). The term “sanctuary cities” is not an official, legal term but rather a colloquially coined term which has come to mean a city where immigrants, legal and illegal alike, are safe from unwanted and unwarranted harassment (Texas Tribune). While not a new concept in Texas, these cities have been receiving much more attention and are the topic of renewed conversation. All of this recent scrutiny has been due to Senate Bill 185, which was proposed by Senator Charles Perry in the 84th legislature. Senate Bill 185 was proposed to cut all state funding for governmental entities that hold policies which forbid peace officers from inquiring about the immigration status of a person that has been detained or arrested (Aguilar, 2015). Sanctuary cities are created by local jurisdiction typically at odds with the legislation of the country and these cities would also have been forced to comply with federal immigration law. To generalize, the intent of the bill is to ban “sanctuary city policies.”

The rest of the movie shows how Katie begins to restore her life piece by piece while also trying to recover from her physically abusive marriage. Her first day in town she stops at a

When Katie was a child she should have been taught by her parents how to be caring to others, but this proves that due to Katie not holding a strong relationship with her parents, she does not understand that it is in rude for a woman not to show compassion to her friends. Being caring to other is an important part of being a good friend. When a friends is put into a hurtful situation it is the responsibility as a decent person to show compassion for the given situation. Katie’s lack of compassion for Arthur’s loss is why O’Malley chose to not bring him back till the end of the book. So that Katie could feel how it felt to lose a friend because of her choices.

By this time Katie has start to have a relationship with Alex. Alex tells her about his death wife and Katie tells him about Kevin and she tells him that her real name is Erin. They take walks on the beach and take the kids to the movies or to the fairs. But then Kevin arrives looking for his wife and sees that she has made a new life for herself, that she has a house, a job and most important she has a new family that she loves, but the only thing that Kevin sees is the man that Katie is dating and that makes him really

This shows the dysfunctionality between the three of them and how they don’t understand how to be around each other at that point and time. When Marie uses Alex’s illness against him like

The local Victim Assistance near me is called The Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton. It is a non-profit organization that conducts a wide-spread of programs in the state of New Jersey, located in four different counties named, Monmouth, Mercer, Burlington and Ocean. The services range from immigration, adoption, child protection, foster care and domestic violence. They even host fundraising events that are meant to make sure the services are maintained properly (“Ocean County Programs,” n.d.).

While trudging through the abandoned city for hours, Darby discovers an abandoned supermarket. She dashes inside, in hopes to find non-perishable food. But, suddenly she is trapped in a force field. Citizens startled, but Kate reassures them. When Kate, attempts to grab the mirror from her jacket pocket, she finds nothing. Kate is distressed, and so is everyone else.