Summary Of Ruined By Lynn Nottage

Louie drinks to wash the memories away. When Louie could drink it is said “The alcohol had brought him a pleasant numbness” (347). Louie couldn’t stop himself. Sometimes “If he got drunk enough, he could drown the war for a time” (359). Louie was desperate to forget about his experience in the war. If drinking could make it better then he would drink multiple. It wasn’t until Cynthia, Louie’s wife, heard about a sermon from Billy Graham that made Louie hear about him. At first Louie was hesitant. Louie believed in science; Cynthia told Louie “Graham’s sermons discussed science at length” (378). It was enough to get Louie to go. Hearing those sermons opened Louie’s eyes. He stopped drinking and found more of Jesus. Louie had overcome his darkness. Louie’s an unforgettable leader. Leaders rise to the top and persevere. They don’t give up and quit. Louie overcame his problems and moved on with his life; Louie pushed himself to be better, like a true leader does.

“On their third meeting he buys her a lemonade and makes a young guy in the carriage stand up so that she can sit down.” (Father’s actions) pg.3

It is explained within this chapter that a higher power must be found in order for the person’s problem to be solved. Once an alcoholic express willingness to believe in a power greater than them, they started to see results. Each individual can have their own conception of God, but to start they must be willing to accept the realm of spirit. The alcoholic will not be able to complete this journey alone, their decisions and will power have left them in the situation they are in. The power higher, will accomplish the miracles that are not humanly possible. The path can not be walked alone so being able to believe in a God, creates the feeling of having a friend. The fourth chapter creates the idea of how important it is for a person to believe in some conception of God, there is no other way of getting

He sees that by doing so, Richard will not only please the preacher, but he will demonstrate the strong love he has for his mother. This finally makes him do what he was trying to avoid most. Although he has a rough childhood, it is clear that love remains in his heart, but as he begins to be deprived from it more and more, his hunger for it becomes less intense.

By the time the alcohol touches the tongue, the storm has already begun. John Cheever’s relationship with alcohol presents itself throughout the short story “The Swimmer”, and uses the character, Ned Merrill, to represent the struggles he was experiencing. Addiction and the need for alcohol drove this character into a storm he couldn't retreat from. In “The Swimmer” Cheever uses a physical storm and the changes in the weather to show the path of drinking and becoming an alcoholic. The short story begins with joy and excitement, then turns into something casual and frequent, but eventually leads to misfortune and a misery. Nobody desires to be led to an unpleasant storm, that comes with drinking alcohol. Cheever uses nature and the storms to represent the life of an alcoholic.

“Alcohol addiction stunts the spiritual, emotional and mental growth of a person”~Anonymous. Sherman Alexie’s novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, is a book based off the author’s teenage life. The novel is about a poor 14 year old named Junior who faced numerous challenges in his life. Junior has experienced bullying, he was called a traitor for following his dreams, got in a huge fight with his best friend and lost three very important people in his life because of alcohol. Fortunately in the end, Junior got through the pain and lived on but he learned many lessons. One of the lessons Junior learned was that the fall into addiction, in this situation alcohol, leads to a great deal of misery for the individual and those

The Play, Only Drunks and children tell the truth, is written by Drew Hayden Taylor. The Play is about the separation of two sisters and how their lives are different and the regret both possess. The two sisters were both born of a Native background on a reserve, but as a young child Grace, who is now known as Janice, was taken away from her family and put in the care of a European Family. During the 1950’s and 60’s, the Europeans viewed the First Nation way of life unfit and improper lifestyle they lived. Therefore, the European Settlers build schools and adopted the children and started taking away the children with the view that First Nation parents were unfit to care for them. One View that the Europeans had on life is that if you want

Alcohol, it has been around for ten thousand years. Some great things have come from it, but in some situations it has ruined people’s lives. Some may ask how something can have such opposite endings. Well the answer is that people don’t know moderation while consuming alcohol. Alcohol can easily be misinterpreted as an un-harmful substance. In this essay I will educate readers that in moderation and in church traditions it is not harmful or being abused. I will be discussing the importance of where the selfishness and rule breaking comes from when one is intoxicated while driving. I say selfish because that is what it is, a human being lacking consideration for

When Victor was a child his parents would drink a lot and would neglect him because they dealt with their pain by drinking. They drank because they were drinking away the problems caused by the generational trauma they and the generation before them had to endure. For example, during the New Year's party, everyone got drunk, even Victor's parents, left Victor by himself. Victor’s father and mother drank more

The damnation of man has been a popular subject since the origination of Heaven and Hell; the question that remains yet consistently changes is how? One of the most popular poison of choice as in the recent era is drugs and alcohol, with an emphasis on alcohol. The effects of this specific poison can be heard in the rantings of Billy Sunday, in the Evangelist Condemns the Curse of Alcohol. According to Sunday, the use of alcohol leads to both social and individual engagements, including but not limited to horrors and condemning crimes, misery, inappropriate taxation, loss of hard earned money and corruption just to name a few.

Imperialism has been a strong and long lasting force, oppressing societies for generations on end. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, demonstrates how the Congo is continuously affected by this concept and ideology. Throughout this story, Kingsolver manipulates each family member and individual within the book, to better show Western and European ideas and attitudes, to convey the large amount of hypocrisy, in foreigner’s actions.

And its difficult to be alert and vigilant being under the influence of wine, spirits, or alcohol which distorts and impairs your thoughts and vision. In fact another name for alcoholic beverages is spirits. After being an alcoholic for a  little more than half my life nearly 25 plus years, I can honestly say that the Apostle Paul was absolutely correct, it destroys your life and keeps you in a hallucinated state, a total drunken stupor.Trying to drown your sorrows of pain, disappointment, physical and emotional trauma, abuse, set backs, hurt, neglect, rejection and a long list of other sorrows that time will not permit me to write. Not to mention being hung over, hugging a porcelain bowl and hurling until it felt as if my insides would come gushing out of me, a very painful experience and low point in my life. The wedding at  Cana was Jesus's first miracle, and to save the host the embracement he told the governor of the feast to go and fetch him the water pots and he turned the water into wine. And the guest replied after they tasted the wine, they said most host usually put the superior wine out first but I see that you saved the best for last. This experience speaks of the superiority of the new wine which was a symbol of

Throughout the novel, Dominic’s heavy, and eventually unhealthy dependence on alcohol is talked about. After the death of Joe, Dominic “drinks himself to oblivion.” This display of Dominic’s reliance on alcohol reflects the idea of an Aussie Battler, a person who deals with adversity in the unconventional way of drinking alcohol instead of talking about it.

Mama Elena, sensing Tita's reluctance to participate in her sister's upcoming wedding, warns her, "I won't stand for disobedience... nor am I going to allow you to ruin your sister's wedding, with you acting like the victim. You're in charge of all the preparations starting now, and don't ever let me catch you with a single tear or even a long face, do you hear?" (27). At the wedding party the following day, although Tita keeps a perfectly calm demeanor, her true feelings about her sister's marriage to Pedro are revealed in the guests' first bite of the Chabela wedding cake. "The moment [the guests] took their first bite of the cake, everyone was flooded with a great wave of longing... [T]he weeping was just the first symptom of a strange intoxication that seized the guests" (39), all but Tita, on whom the cake had no effect. The author uses the cake's effect on the guests to reveal first, Tita's grief over her loss of love through the guests uncontrollable weeping and second, her disgust over her sister and Pedro's

For centuries, society has taught its men and women to behave in a clear way and to expect certain things from each other. Due to this, women have been placed second, below men, the submissive gender. Women have been taught to aspire to marriage, to not be too smart, to live their life according to society who tells them how to please a man. In fact, when women saw this degradation of themselves they decided to create a movement known as feminism, the social, economic and political equality of the sexes. Due to this standard of society passed through generations, an average reader would interpret Joan Murray’s “Play-by-Play” to be a poem about older women lustfully longing after younger men and fulfilling their purpose. However, if one were to delve deeper into Murray’s poem, it could be argued that she is taking a satirical approach to the way men objectify women. Marilyn French once said, “The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.” In looking at the symbols, diction, and tone in Murray’s poem, one can plainly see her disdain towards the societal standard and objectification of women.