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Our main character Jack is faced with hardship of not being understood and not being able to find what is needed to fill the empty void within him which is said in that of Jack's Lament Performed by Danny Elfman “Yet year after year, it's the same routine And I grow so weary of the sound of screams And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King Have grown so tired of the same old thing Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones An emptiness began to grow There's something out there, far from my home A longing that I've never known” so he mentions an emptiness beginning to grow within his bones metaphorically speaking even though his character has a physical emptiness

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

We lost the ability to be still, our capacity for idleness. They have lost the ability to be alone, their capacity for solitude. (The end of solitude, pg.4)

“every generation , every man is a part of his past. He cannot escape it, but he may

This abuse leads them to their individual mental instabilities. One character who is neglected their entire life is Pooch, “[his] father had committed suicide. His mother is missing in action. He and his two brothers lived with his grandmother in an old house” (Robinson 219). He most likely grew up feeling abandoned and alone due to having both parents absent from his life. Love and affection from a child’s parents are crucial to their development and feeling the opposite takes a psychological toll on Pooch as he grows up and enters adulthood. His grandmother is the only adult he has in his life and even she is unable to care for him to extent he needs, “Grans in the hospital… You know what the worst part is? She’s dying and all I can think about is how I don’t want to live in a group home” (Robinson, 287). Looking through the psychological lens it is evident that even though Pooch has a lot of people who care about him in his life, he has been faced with so much neglect that he fails to realize people are there for him. Freud states, “the unconscious mind continues to influence our personality, even though we are unaware of the underlying influences” (Gellert’s class package, 2015). His neglect, as well as the influence of his unconscious thoughts leads him to become mentally unstable and suicidal. He becomes so depressed he feels there is only one way for his pain to end, “ he shot himself. He’s in the hospital. They’re

“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.” – A. C. Benson

Dave Pelzer once said “Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul” (Goodreads). Indeed, most parents and other caregivers do not intentionally hurt their children. However, many children each year are traumatized by physical, sexual, emotional, psychological abuse, and neglect. In the memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls reveals that she cannot lift the burden of her childhood experiences. Throughout writing The Glass Castle, the author tries to comfort herself to relieve her pain, examine her past and portray to her readers how damaging the legacy of abuse and neglect can be.

“There are situations of where the child shuts down and stays in his own world. Studies have shown a link between child abuse and delayed intellectual development. The child loses his ability to adapt to his or her environment leading to poor cognitive development. The child produces feelings of guilt, violation, loss of control and lowered self-esteem sometimes with suicidal tendencies. Common problems include emotional and behavioral problems, poor performance in school, and possible further abuse (Husted).

She experiences many effects and has many symptoms of the typical abuse victim. Kingsolver accurately portrays the effects of child abuse upon the character of a child and that those effects greatly impact a child's life.

Kids who have been a victim of maltreatment are often times hindered in development as the rest of their life plays out. No matter the starting age, a family neglect can create in kids an odd and unpleasant feeling. The constant exposure to depressors and “bring-me-downs” that effected kids see really puts them into a terrible cycle. Some cases of maltreatment lead to extraordinary stories and even more impressive characters. In Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, we can observe that Chris McCandless fell into this vicious cycle, and was effected by it throughout his adventurous life. Some of McCandless’ experiences later in life can be directly correlated with his childhood difficulties. But, in order of make sense

But it had remained an unfair universe in the end.”-Susan Catalano This quote relates to the

The long term ramifications of child abuse and neglect are profound and may endure long after the maltreatment has occurred. Individuals that undergo such abuse either physically or mentally may affect various aspects of their development. The outcome of abuse and neglect can range from minor effects to fatal situations. In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” Dill was emotionally damaged and neglected by his parents.

quoted “When we see a landscape, we situate ourselves in the it. If we saw the art of the past, we

Howe (2010) states “The majority of parents who maltreat their children have problems metalizing their children’s psychological condition. Their own histories tend to be ones of rejection, abuse, neglect, trauma and loss. Never having been fully recognized as an independent, complex psychological being themselves, they have problems relating to their children as complex, separate psychological beings” (pg. 336).

Every year, child abuse and neglect affect more than one million children nation-wide (Currie and Tekin 1). Along with this, child abuse is the source of severe injury to more than 500,000 children and the death of over 1,500 children (Currie and Tekin 1). These outrageously large numbers reveal the extent to which child abuse and neglect impact society; however, they do not acknowledge the effect abuse can have on a child’s life and the repercussions that may occur in both the individual’s childhood and adulthood. While the effects most certainly include physical pain and possibly future disabilities, child abuse and neglect can also affects the child’s psychological welfare. Psychological effects are often more difficult to recognize,