Silver Linings Playbook By Matthew Quick

Pat is the main character in this film adaptation. The film takes the audience through Pat’s life and his denial and struggle with a mental illness. The movie starts with Pat leaving a mental rehabilitation center, for his mother got a signing from the court to bring Pat back home after eight months. It is later shown in this film, as to why Pat was committed into this hospital, for Pat had an outburst when he had found his wife having an affair and then was later diagnosed with Undiagnosed Bipolar Disorder. Although Pat is the one struggling with bipolar, his whole family is there riding along working against this, with there own issues a well. One particular scene, that was very well constructed, is where Pat has a Bipolar mania episode at three in the morning, searching for his wedding video. As a

The movie ‘Silver Linings Playbook’, filmed in 2012 and directed by David O. Russel, follows the life story of Pat Solitano, a former teacher who is released from a mental insituation and places significant importance on his getting his life back togther. Over the film’s course, it becomes apparent that Pat suffers from Bipolar Disorder.

In the novel The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan, there are several stories that intertwine into one novel. Each of the stories takes place China where the roles and the actions of woman are vastly different compared to American tradition. In the different stories, they all are about different mothers and daughters. Throughout the book, the reader can see the development in each relationship between mother and daughter with their conflicting backgrounds from China to America.

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan follows multiple Chinese-American women who struggle with their self-identity and creating a balance between American and Chinese culture. Because of their immigration and many hardships in life, many of the women feel like they cannot truly tell who they are anymore, and throughout the novel these women are portrayed as ghosts. Ghosts are used to symbolize these women because they share many parallels including being only a remnant of who they once were, or who they could be. Ying-ying St. Clair is one of the women, who has a daughter named Lena St. Clair, she has had a troubled past in China, which has made her lose her fighting spirit, and her spirit in general. Ying-ying is fully aware of her loss of spirit and is embarrassed because she considers ghosts to be shameful and weak, and wants to save her daughter, Lena, from her fate.

Summary: Janie Crawford is a southern African-American woman who grows up under the care of her grandmother. Janie’s mother has her at seventeen and soon after Janie’s birth she becomes a drinker and stays out late until she leaves for good. Janie’s Nanny’s background of slavery makes her push Janie to be someone she could not be during her days. Nanny urges Janie to marry Logan Killicks. Janie is not in love with Logan, but Nanny and others push Janie to marry him. Janie thinks if she marries him, then she will start loving him. However, a marriage not built on the foundation of love will not last. While Janie struggles with her relationship with her husband, “she knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman (24). Janie’s marriage with Logan diminishes her idea of a loving and romantic relationship. Janie spends a little over a year with Logan under miserable conditions, until she marries Joe Starks not long after. Mr. and Mrs. Starks move to a new town where they meet friendly townspeople. Not long after, Joe

I chose to do my analysis on the character Pat Solitano, from the movie Silver Lining Playbook. This movie is a romantic comedy that takes place in Philadelphia. This movie is about a middle-aged man who has lost everything, his job, his wife, and his house. He has spent the last eight months in a mental institution, and has recently been released to his parents. Upon entry to the mental institution Pat almost beat his wife’s lover to death. So, throughout the entire movie pat is trying to win the affection of his wife back, by trying to better himself, and show her that he has his anger under control. This is difficult because Pat’s wife has placed a restraining order on him, so he can have no actual contact with her. So, she has no

Next, Tricia Ann engages in conversation with Jimmy Lee, a local food cart attendant. Tricia Ann does not understand why she’s not allowed to sit on the fountain bench that her grandfather built. Jimmy Lee explains that he’s not allowed to sit in the diner that his brother cook’s in. Just before the street light changes, Jimmy tells her, “Don’t let those signs steal yo’ happiness” (McKissack, 2001 pg. 16). Tricia Ann focuses on someplace special, a place with no signs. Continuing on her journey, Tricia Ann passes the Southland Hotel and stops to talk to Mr. John Willis, the hotel’s doorman. Just then a long white car pulls up and people begin to crowd around to ask for an autograph. Tricia Ann is caught up in the crowd and finds herself inside of the Southland Hotel’s grand lobby. The hotel manager notices that Tricia Ann is in the hotel and screams out, “What is she doing in here” (McKissack, 2001 pg. 22)? Tricia manages to escape the stare of the hotel manager and runs to Mission Church. Tricia Ann cries out, “Getting to Someplace Special isn’t worth it; I’m going home” (McKissack, 2001 pg. 24).

After the dance, Pat strolled to Niki and quietly says something into her ear, which Tiffany sees and soon runs away. Pat saw this happen and chased after Tiffany and he finds himself confession he had loved her from the second he met her, and soon after the two become

The character for whom I've chosen to do my analyses on is Patrick Solitano Jr. or Pat for short as portrayed in the film. Pat is a former teacher with a likable and inviting personality about him but can be tell by the naked eye he has some issues going on in his head. In the film he has just spent 8 months in a mental health facility and comes to live with his parents. The reason for his 8 month in the mental health facility was him coming home early from work and finding his wife Nikki naked in the shower with the history teacher Doug Culpepper. Seeing that

At dinner with his friends, Pat meets Veronica 's sister Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence). It’s evident that sparks fly between Pat and Tiffany and she tries to connect with him but Pat’s only focus is getting back together with Nikki. Tiffany tries to get closer to Pat and even offers to deliver a letter to Nikki, but only if he will be her dance partner in an upcoming dance competition. He agrees to this as he believes the competition will be a good way to show Nikki that he has changed. The two begin a rigorous practice regimen over the following weeks.

Although Tiffany has her own challenges, she still tries to pull it together to help support Pat. One way she tries to help is by opening up about her past. By doing this Tiffany is revealing some shameful secrets, but her vulnerability allows a strong connection to start to form. Another way she tries to help Pat is by stalking him during his running routine. While it might be a bit peculiar for her to stalk his runs, she is just trying to motivate and join him.

Everyone has quirks that make him or her an individual. We filter through life, attempting to seamlessly weave our oddities into a “normal” person. As difficult as trying to fit circles into squares, the silver lining in these valiant attempts is that the “normal” person doesn’t exist. That is what writer-director David O. Russell understood when making The Silver Linings Playbook, The film is a fantastic study in how our individual quirks, though varying in degree, have the ability to render all of us completely insane.

To demonstrate how the suppression of typical play throughout childhood can impair development and even have cataclysmic results, Staurt Brown explains in Play is More Than Just Fun Ted Talk that playing and having fun should not be suppressed. In stages of childhood development, these actions may have an unfavorable impact on the child when he or she may reach adulthood. Brown gives us an example of the Texas Tower Murderer, Charles Whitman, to the importance of play in that individual by a deep study found to have servre play depravation. The absence of play in a progressive suppression of developmentally normal play led him to be more susceptible to the tragedy that he perpetrated.

Encountering stressful or traumatic situations is inevitable in a human lifetime. Human beings are faced with a gruesome situation, have a period of grief, and finally overcome the emotions that came along with the event as a wiser and more mature individual. But what about the small portion of human beings that are not able to survive the trauma? What is stopping them from their own recovery? A member of this small portion of human beings is the main character of Matthew Quick’s novel The Silver Linings Playbook, Pat Peoples. From the first lines on the first pages of the novel the reader can tell that Pat’s brain is not in mint condition. He has a distorted perception of time, he has several different triggers that spark violent outbursts, and his mental state has affected the people that love him the most. From these traits and several other symptoms, it is obvious that Pat Peoples suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder but cannot properly recover from this mental illness due to also having bipolar disorder.

The lean thinking has been established in a well manner in the competitive world. The countless business industries have proved their effective growth in terms of brand recognition and in terms of the good profit amount with the effective application of the lean production system in their operational activities. Toyota has added their name in the application of the lean thinking in their production process first in the global competitive market. The book “the Gold mine” written by Freedy and Michael Balle is a definite attempt to highlight the challenges that the leaders are facing in the perfect transformation of the lean thinking in their operational activities. This essay has discusses the direct connection between the content the