Shaila Bhave Caused Grief Summary

Firstly, the war caused a huge problem to Maha, a 12-year-old girl, who lost her parents and her older sister after a bombing in the Muslim area of the city. Moreover, she has to take care of her younger brother who is 6 months old, while they threaten to separate her from him. Maha’s suffering is demonstrated when she explains to Karim, “What’s important is that I don’t have anything left to lose. Except Jad. You say we’ll be killed before we

The thundering sound of the bomb blast could be heard for miles. Men, women, and children run frantically in order to find shelter, being blinding by the massive amounts of dust that have caused the sky to turn yellow. Mothers are scavenging for their children, who were playing games outside, now stuck deep in the rubble of buildings that have collapsed on top of them. Houses have been destroyed, families have been obliterated and innocent lives have been lost. For many around the world, situations like these have become a part of everyday life. In A Pure, High Note of Anguish, author Barbara Kingsolver describes the confusion and questions that arose after the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11th. 9/11 was the largest terrorist

Crash is a movie that has a main theme of need for change in many different ethnicities. The world has revolve around discrimination for some time and that needs to be change. The effect discrimination has can be drastic whether people believe it or not. Moreover, people can jump in to conclusion just because of their skin color. Further more, that can lead to regret and remorse just for being discriminant. The movie Crash has a drastic example of need for change when Farhad pulls the trigger of the gun on Daniel in front of his house broad daylight while the daughter runs toward and jumps onto to him done in slow motion and tears falling.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth is comprised of eight short stories about different Indian families’ struggles in America, many of them going through the immigrant experience. The conflicts are with friends and family, and also with themselves, as each of them attempt to find their own identity along with fitting in with the rest of society. One of the causes of these struggles that because the families in the stories are mixed in terms of generation. Many of the adults in the stories were first generation immigrants from India, while many of the children were raised in the United States, which is the second generation. This led to blending of culture and at the same time, clashes between the immigrant mentality of living and the American mentality of living. In Unaccustomed Earth, Lahiri demonstrates to the reader the important influence of environment, specifically culture and how it impacts parental teachings, on the personality and development of an individuals’ identity, and how the actions and development of characters can affect one’s family and friends; the impact of environment and culture is shown especially by the characters and stories “Hell-Heaven” and “Hema and Kaushik”.

Despite the sufferance of victims, they often aren’t entirely blameless, as their poor decisions and irresponsibility is ultimately associated with their upsetting and newfound situation. Therefore victims like Fin O’Neil in The Story of Tom Brennan, who ultimately chose to travel in a car with drunken, inexperienced, and impulsive driver, it becomes questionable whether he is also culpable for his injuries. Despite Fin’s sobriety and awareness prior to the accident, this does not implicate him, however it becomes debatable whether the outcomes would be alike; with Fin’s extensive injuries and crash itself, if the decisions made on Fin’s behalf were different. Similarly in the story of ‘In My Little Town’, Leigh Charter Jnr also decides to travel with a drunk driver, regardless of the risks. Although his alertness was also compromised by alcohol, he holds some level of responsibility in his death. However, in ‘Shattered’, there are no obvious victims who made poor decisions, due to the situations isolation. Although, it is disputable whether the perpetrator; Peter Hodgkins’ friends who witnessed the accident could have altered the outcome. Though, it was voiced to Peter; “don’t throw a rock at a car, that’s stupid,” (‘Shattered’, 2011) this partly ousts some responsibility, especially due to their intoxication, which is similar to the other stories. However, responsibility is never fully removed from others, as it only takes one person, one conversation, and any one action during the lead to alter the outcome of July 21st 2007, in Kiama, New South

When someone goes through a time of grief, it is only natural to find a way to deal with the hardships and until it eventually goes away, but people may come to realize that the loss can never be forgotten. This process of grieving and fighting through hard times to finally come to peace and accept reality is also reflected in literature such as “Hold Tight”. The short story ¨Hold Tight¨ by Amy Bloom shows that when people deal with grief, people may try to find ways to cope with the pain by letting out their anger on others or becoming self-destructive, even though it may not be possible to completely forget the woe.

Crash is a movie about race and stereotypes and its effects on the various people living in the Los Angeles area. The movie boost racial awareness and it requires close observation from the viewer. We see a variety of races including African American men and women, several Hispanics, a Middle Eastern family, and a few Asians. We see the ups and downs of each character and it helps us see where they are coming from, and potentially why they are racist against different people. It seems that we almost begin to feel sorry for the different characters regardless of what they are doing or how they are acting because of each of their circumstances.

Miriam's mom died, she was given up by her dad ever since she was born even although she does get weekly visits from him. Miriam was also put into an arranged marriage by her father even though she was only 15. Rasheed, Miriam's husband, was very abusive and forceful to her. She also was never able to have children even though she became pregnant 7 times, all ending up in miscarriages. Laila experienced a good childhood, she had friends and a good family. Soon all her friends either moved away or died. Laila and her family were going to move away from Afghanistan until their home was struck by a rocket, her mom and dad both died in the house while she was rescued by Rasheed who cared for her wounds. She was than convinced that he would be the safest person to be with, so then they married. Soon she became pregnant with Tariq's baby but had to act like it was Rasheed's. Miriam and Laila were both abused by Rasheed if they did anything wrong. They both experienced difficult lives. The driver states "the story of our country, one invader after another... we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing." Miriam and Laila are like the Buddhas, they are constantly receiving bad things one after the other. Miriam and Laila slowly falling apart, yet still holding their will. They both show how much they've gone through but what they are still trying to get to. Afghanistan has

In the poem ‘Glasgow 5th March 1971 the poet Edwin Morgan contributes to the atmosphere of the poem by using several language techniques such as imagery ,metaphors and onomatopoeia. Which all follow the technique of instamatic poetry. The poem is a very dramatic visual poem that tells the story of one of the many crimes that took place in Glasgow,during the 1970’s, in this case the pem centres around the two youths,that push a couple into a jewellery shop window,to then carry out theft. An atmosphere of fear and violence is created by the way Edwin describes the way the victims appear as they fall through the window.

The melodramatic film Crash, directed by Paul Higgins, consists of multiple storylines that portray how such antagonistic people come to meet in the most unusual situations. The film shows how characters clash or crash into each other in the most unusual situations. This demonstrates to the audience from an outside perspective the unreasonable or stereotypical opinions formed on one another. As well as the outcome of these crashes and whether they are positive or negative outcomes. A crash that occurs in the film is a scene of Christine and Cameron where t A black SUV is reported stolen by two black men.

The movie Crash depicts many issues that we see on a daily basis. Whether its social constructs, traditional gender roles, or abuse of power; this movie does an astonishing job at giving you an idea of how certain people are depicted based on the circumstances they are in. The main issue in the movie is how the character in the movie depicts each other as something that they are not. They are quick to make assumptions based on their race mostly instead of actually seeing them for who they really are.

The movie Crash was a very moving film. Perceptions are individual. What one person perceives is not necessarily the same as another. The characters all had experiences that connected them with one another. The experiences within their lives created assumptions of people; this prevents them from seeing the true person. The characters in this movie all had limited views about other racial backgrounds, ethnicities and socio-economic groups within their community. When circumstances within these lives push them to their limits, their assumptions about others are tested. Racism and racial profiling are strongly felt by these characters throughout the movie. When pushed to the limit the characters are forced to deal with things

violent things she had endured. She always talks to God asking him to give her

As I read Management of Grief, I noticed that Bharati Mukherjee portrayed different forms of grief. There are also many steps to grief. She mainly focused on the ways Shaila and Kusum grieved and coped. Shaila said, “We must all grieve in our own way.” While it was said many times that almost everyone was hysterical, Shaila’s grieving was different than most of the people, in the story. She was in a state of calm, that people were jealous of. Even a reporter came by and asked for Shaila for help because, not only did Shaila know a lot of people on the plane, she was not hysterical like the rest. The reporter, Judith Templeton, even said, “...Mrs. Bhave is a pillar - because you’ve taken it more calmly.” Kusum, on the other hand, was the opposite.

The problems that one encounters in coping with the death of a dear one are portrayed in the novel and how it make them realise is death most be understood so life is understood. R.K Narayan Narayan English teacher says that everyone in life is separated by one and another and death is the start of the new road and a new journey.