The Theme Of Suicide By Andy

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.

The author creates this relatable point of view by giving the reader a look into the thoughts that are rushing through Andy’s mind as he is realizing that he is in his last moments of his short life. As Andy is lying in the rain, blood pouring out from the wound on his body, he thinks about his girlfriend, Laura. Andy thinks about how “Someday he would marry Laura.”(Hunter 1), a common thought for teenagers to have. Reading how sixteen year old Andy is already thinking about marrying his girlfriend is so relatable, yet silly for teenagers to believe. Reading this gives us empathy, realizing that Andy is still a child, a child with hopes and dreams, just like any. Right before Andy takes his final breath he starts to regret being a royal, and sadness that his life would be cut short at only sixteen years, only to be remembered as a gang member, starts to overcome him. Andy is realizing he had “never done anything, never seen anything, never been anywhere”(Hunter 6). This concept creates a sadness and relatability in the reader, especially young readers. It is sad to have the thought of being in Andy’s position and regretting what has been accomplished in life. This is also relatable because teenagers, at one time or another, have the realization that life can be over any second, so you have to live it to the fullest and make

According to Emile Durkheim there are four different types of suicide. They are egoistic suicide, altruistic suicide, anomic suicide, and fatalistic suicide. Although I personally have never thought about committing suicide, my life has changed because of two girls who decided to take their own lives. I grew up in the small town of Philomath, Oregon so everybody knows everybody. In October of 2013 a freshman named Lilly Stagner committed suicide. We weren’t personally friends, but I saw her in the halls each day and she seemed like a happy girl. On the morning of October 23 everyone came to school, but something just didn’t seem normal. In first period our teacher read us a letter about how Lilly had passed away and that there were counseling

Using material from Item A and elsewhere, assess different sociological explanations of suicide. (21 marks)

According to, this quote “So I know Andy was afraid. His soul is probably still out there somewhere—floating in the darkness, looking for hope, hoping for forgiveness, and terribly, terribly frightened.” Andy’s friends and his family knew exactly how Andy

He is apparently innocent, and there are all sorts of details involving his case, but after a while they take on a kind of unreality; all that counts inside prison is its own society -- who is strong, who is not -- and the measured passage of time because his innocence was ignored by the Warden. The irony is that in prison that he learnt how to lie and because of the circumstances he was forced to do illegal money laundering. Andy does special fiscal favours for the warden. ("You know, the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man, straight as an arrow," he says about this. "I had to come to prison to be a crook.") The film shows how much Andy has changed yet preserved his own passions, values and humanity and made an impact in his fellow inmates lives. Despite being locked in prison everyday, he still has passion for life. He also had faith stronger than anyone in this prison as he was strong and never complained despite the numerous tortures he went

especially when you find yourself in a hopelessness situation. Andy is prisoned for the crime he

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.

On January 17, 2017, teenager, Andrew Green, purposefully drove his car into a truck while on his way to school that morning. Later that morning, notes written by Andrew indicated that it was his intention to die. This was the first accident that I have witnessed.

The process of finding out who one is can be very turbulent and confusing. Through growing up one goes through so many different changes in terms of one's personality and deciding who they are and what they want to be. The little girl in David Kaplan's "Doe Season" goes through one of these changes, as do many other adolescents confused about who they are, and finds out that there are some aspects of a person's identity that cannot be changed no matter how hard he/she tries. Andy is a nine-year-old girl who doesn't want to grow up to be a woman. When she talks of the sea and how she remembers her mother loving it and how much she hated it is a clue that she prefers to be a "boy". The sea is symbolic of womanhood and

Andy is clinical and tight-lipped. This explains why he went to Shawshank for a crime he didn’t commit. I knew him for close to thirty years, and I can tell you he was the most self-possessed man I've ever known. What was right with him he'd only give you a little at a time. What was wrong with him he kept bottled up inside."(King, p.20). Andy secrecy plays a big role in the story. He was able to stay quiet about his tunnels, he had access to hidden money and not to mention he was outfoxing Norton and Hadley. Todd kept his emotions of anger bottled up, gradually leading him to a never-ending road of murder. “he felt a mad urge to take the 30.30 back into the house and shoot both of his parents and then go down to the slope overlooking the freeway.”( King, p.221). Both characters lived secretive lives but the result of them being so introverted were different. Andy’s secretive behavior led to him escaping prison, a place he didn’t deserve to go to, while it led Todd to a life of murder and the unleashing of the beast within him.

The poem Suicide Note, written by Janice Mirikitani (1987), talks about a young lady, who has studied in an Asian-American female college. The lady, unfortunately, committed suicide by jumping through her dormitory’s window. She left behind a note, citing reasons that led to her actions. After a critical analysis of the note, her parents were held responsible for her actions; they were pressurizing her to perform better in her exams. The poem, thus, describes the real feelings and the emotions of this young lady, who believes that committing suicide is the only option left to please her parents and to escape the enormous pressure placed on her. The persona uses voice in the poem to bring our attention to the sufferings she was going through, and that led to the devastating event. Voice in poetry is the strong words of a line, stanza or a page that creates a relationship between the audience and the persona. Voice can, therefore, be categorized as imagery, patterns of sounds created, rhythm, tone, and diction (Gahern 166). The following is a description of how the voice in Mirikitani’s suicide note helps the reader understand the persona’s reasoning.

The turning point in the movie for Andy was when he was in the library trying to learn more about Aids. He was asked by the librarian to go to a private room. His lawyer was there and saw this happening, although he was hiding behind a pile of books. I guess this is when he realized Andy needed him to help protect his rights.

Have you ever known someone who’s committed or tried to commit suicide and thought, “I wish I would’ve done something, said something, to stop it from happening?” I know I would ask myself that question everyday if I hadn’t. A few years ago, a good friend of mine thought her life was so bad she wanted to end it. I did the only thing I could think, and told the nearest teacher. It may sound so childish or stupid, but it worked. Luckily, she’s still alive and well. I’m here to make sure you can make the difference and help a person who might be, or is suicidal. Just think of what would happen if you didn’t try to help.

Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a purely individual decision but French sociologist Emile Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed in the influence of society on the individual and that if anything can explain that relation, it is suicide. His use of the data of suicide, not specific cases and reports, to study the societal trends reveals his true subject of study: society as a whole and its role in the individual experience. Durkheim uses the study of suicide via the quantitative methodological approach as a tool to study society as a broader whole.