Suicide By Louisa Valenzuela Summary

The answer may not lie in who might commit suicide, but in how suicide can be prevented. Impulsive suicides such as ‘jumping’ suicides may be able to be prevented altogether, and according to Scott Anderson’s “The Urge to End it All” actions that are taken to prevent impulsive suicides may play hand in hand with reducing non impulsive suicides. Time is of the essence, which may be truer than you’ve previously thought. If given time, other thoughts besides suicide may start running through a person’s mind, ultimately riding the person of impulsive ideas.

Hope is salvation. It is the thing we seek in times of distress and hardship. But more often than not we put our hope of a better future to be passed down to our next generation. Krik? Krak! By Edwidge Danticat, is a collection of stories, which try their best to explain the tough challenges Haitian people experience in Haiti and even outside of it. Because of these challenges and hardships, Danticat portrays the idea of when people go through suffering , the hope of a better fate lies in the future generation.

There are times when we feel like we must be perfect in other to please others. No matter if we did the best we could, if it isn’t perfect, we felt like a failure. We want the approval that comes with perfectness but perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it 's a shield. Perfectionism is refusal to accept any standard short of perfection. “Suicide Note,” by Janice Mirikitani, is about an Asian American college student who commits suicide by jumping from her dormitory window. This poem is read as the suicide note that was left behind by this young woman to apologize to her parent s for having received less than a perfect four point grade average and not being perfect in life. Her last thoughts and feelings were left on this note, describing why she did what she did. The pressure to succeed that this student felt from herself and her parents was far too much to overcome. Even though the girl worked really hard and did her very best, it wasn’t good enough in her mind and maybe in her parents’ minds to be worthy of her parents’ love or life itself and so her only option was death to atone for her sin of imperfection. Sometimes pressure to succeed that a student feels from herself and her parents is far too much to overcome.

"Suicide, what a terrible concept. There are two types of suicide: physical, and theoretical. Physical suicide is the more commonly heard type of suicide. It entails the person actually, physically killing himself or herself. On the other hand, theoretical suicide is when the person does something that will, in turn, get him or her killed. For example, in “All About Suicide” by Luisa Valenzuela, Ismael, a man that works at a minister’s office, murders the minister, a high-ranking public official. Ismael has been forced to be quiet by the government; therefore he lashes out by killing the minister so that he can reveal the truth about the government. In doing this, Ismael technically “kills himself” because he knows the government

Miguel Piñero is a famous Port Rican writer, who wrote several poems portraying what Latin people has been through in the seventies in the United States of America. The writer chose an interesting titles for his poems which indicate what the reasons behind the struggle of Latin people face in USA. At the end of the poem” Seeking the Cause”, according to the write, Pinero in this poem listed the causes of the person’s death, which are his skin color, blood, race, and speech. However, the writer has a transition at the end of the poem which reveals that the dead person was the main cause of the death. In addition, in his second poem “La Bodega Sold Dreams”, the writer mentions how his dream of becoming a well- known poet was repressed due to life’s difficulties. Reaching his dream was symbolized by a traffic light that keeps switching which prevent him from achieving his dream as a poet.

Suicide has become the second leading cause of death among teens in the United States. American youth have more risk to mental disorders due to race, sexuality, family, and stress of fitting in with their surroundings. Many mental illnesses will lead to suicidal thoughts or eventually to an attempt at suicide. Anxiety and the pressure to fit in contributes greatly to depression and suicide, particularly in high school. During youth, it's especially hard to find who you are, and still have the risk of getting made fun of or being bullied. Mental disorders along with substance abuse can also increase suicidal tendencies commodiously.All of these factors lead to the most common mental disorder, depression. Depression in young adults is the most

Fighting for justice in “Revolutionary Suicide” presents two conflicts between suicide and salvation. In Oakland California around 1970, African Americans were being so mistreated that a movement was created to fight for black power which is known as Black Panther Party. African Americans were going up against the police and government of the racist south. This was a time Jim Crow laws had just ending along with segregation ,but that dosen’t mean that the whites of the south still didn’t have the same intentions they used to have about blacks. Which lead to many confrontations that resulted in death or injury causing revolutionary suicide. In poem “Revolutionary Suicide,” The style of the poem is built of a cause and effect. First, the speaker addresses that having nothing causes him to have everything .“By having no family I inherited the family of humanity …By having surrendering my life to the revolution I found internal life.” Readers can get an impression that the speaker would make a great leader. Especially when he tells the audience that he is willing to sacrifice himself in order to gain revolution. The speaker is confronting the opposition letting them know he is not afraid of death nor them. He also writes this in the poem

The poem “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” by Amiri Baraka uses vivid images of sights, sounds, and daily activities to symbolize a heartfelt story. In the poem, Amiri, is one of the African American slaves who is frustrated about the discriminatory treatment by whites. So frustrated he wants to commit suicide. The writer used transition words starting with “lately”, “now”, and “then” for each stanza. He was imagining how he acted before his death and how his daughter reacted to his death.

“Never push a loyal person to a point where they no longer care.” Innocent people will end up doing desperate things for others just the way Conrad committed suicide because his girlfriend made him. Michelle, the girlfriend forced him to kill himself so many times till one day he finally decided too because he couldn’t take it anymore. The ”Suicide By Text” case has prompted many people to discuss social issues such as depression and emotional manipulation.

“When you died, part of me died too,Now i'm finishing off the rest, so we can be together...I’m coming.” Is a direct quote from Junes suicide note to Delia wishing her a sincere see you soon. A book of a sad suicide turns into a brutal murder but for what? A beautiful lie or did little girls really die? Lynn Weingarten wrote a New York bestseller, suicide notes from beautiful girls, it was a hit in New York but due to all the disregard for the law, lack of respect for authority, and all the talk of sinful lives this won't make the Top Salem Seller.

Joan Didion uses parenthesis as a way to add qualifying information to a more impactful statement, which causes the reader to dismiss the parenthetical statement and focus on the first clause which Didion has chosen as a greater statement. For example, when Didion is relaying the conversation about John’s autopsy, she writes this statement, “Doctors themselves, according to many studies (for example Katz, J. L., and Gardner, R., “The Intern’s Dilemma: The Request for Autopsy Consent,” Psychiatry in Medicine 3:197—203, 1972), experience considerable anxiety about making the request,” (21). In this section, Didion wants the reader to feel the importance of her decision to allow the autopsy. She chose to do so by including how hard it must have

 Thesis: While Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, I believe That Suicide is wrong.

Throughout the world of suburbia, there seems to be a persistence of communities who attempt to create a perfect, enclosed world for the whole of the community to live in. By providing for everything that the inhabitants would ever want, suburbia is able to close itself off from those around it that it deems unworthy of belonging. While this exclusivity helps to foster the sense of community, it can also bring with it isolation from the outside, and also from within, and have disastrous results. Throughout the semester, there have been a number of works that have dealt the issue of isolation, but the greatest representation of a work whose physical qualities in its representation of suburbia help to

Nowadays, it seems like we hear a lot about suicide and who did what and all about their life story. You hear many stories about how no one knew it was coming and they showed no signs. It is a hard pill to swallow when most of the time you realize that they probably showed countless amount of signs but it is that no one really paid attention to the signs. “Suicide Note” was written by Janice Mirikitani, it is about an Asian-American girl who committed suicide. It is often said that she committed suicide for having a less than perfect grade point average

In the novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, uses the element point of view supported by certain motifs to portray society and how its gender roles affect the narration. The author’s choice in doing so is important simply because the novella is based on a real life story which occurred in Sucre, Colombia, in 1951, where he had lived. The incident happened while Gabriel Garcia Marquez was in college studying journalism, just like the narrator of the novel. Marquez happened to know some of the people involved, which gave the novella more significance. In the mid twentieth century, Colombian culture had various aspects due to its diversity and how society had evolved while still containing traditional