The Theory Of Mental Illness

Alice made multiple significant decisions because of what she believed in. Alice believed that she had more opportunity running away with Isaac than she did staying in Maryland; Alice ran away from with Isaac in parts 3 and 4 of The Fight. Alice later got caught and recalled “They beat me. I remember, the dogs, the rope… They tied me behind a horse and I had to run but I couldn’t.” (page 158). If Alice had not run away, Rufus would not have had to buy her, and Haager would not have been born.

Forget all the stereotypes of mental illness. It has no face. It has no particular victim. Mental illness can affect an individual from any background and the black community is no exception. African Americans sometimes experience even more severe forms of mental health conditions because of unmet needs and barriers to treatment. According to the Office of Minority Health, African Americans are 20 percent more likely to experience serious mental health problems than the general population. That’s why UGA third year Majenneh Sengbe is taking action as the co-founder of her upcoming organization Black Minds Daily.

Still Alice (Genova, 2009) is a captivating debut novel about a 50-year-old woman’s sudden decline into early onset Alzheimer’s disease. The book is written by first time author Lisa Genova, who holds a PH.D in neuroscience from Harvard University. She’s also an online columnist for the national Alzheimer’s association. Her other books include Left Neglected and Love Anthony. She lives with her husband and two children in Cape Cod.

Alice has gone though a lot, but things start to go well for her. She’s with Joel, her family loves her, and she’s friends with kids that don’t smoke or drink. She stops writing in a diary, but dies a few weeks later because of an overdose. Either she was drugged or she started doing drugs again.

When Alice begins to grow forgetful at first she discards it, but when she gets lost in her own neighborhood, she realizes that something is terribly wrong. She didn't want to become someone people avoided and feared. She wanted to live to hold her daughter, Anna’s, baby and know she was holding her grandchild. She wanted to watch her youngest daughter, Lydia act in something she was proud of. She wanted to see her son, Tom, fall in love. She wanted to be able to read every book she could before she could no longer read. Alice once placed her worth and identity in her academic life, now she must examine her relationship with her husband, her expectations of her daughters and son and her plans for herself. “Losing her yesterdays, her short-term memory hanging on by a couple of frayed threads, she

At the beginning she is angry and depressed with herself because she is forgetting everything that she needs to remember every day, such as a simple and common word. Her emotional changes also affect her relationships with others and her own feelings, because she has a negative behavior with others when she yells or says a word of anger. I think is the way how she shows that she is trying to avoid what is happening in her life with an incurable disease that changes the direction of her life. She feels frustration about her memory problems because gradually she has a restriction of freedom that means she loses privacy and independence in each activity she wants to do. We cannot imagine what she is feeling when she is losing everything she learned, all the way back to basic activities such as the skill to walk, eat, or even use the bathroom. Alice feels frustrated about what she is living, because it is a way to say she is stigmatized with this disease as though she were already dead. On the other hand, and in a positive way, she begins to enjoy her life when she shares more time with her family. She feels curiosity about a future of her children and grandchild, and then she wants to live to enjoy everything, despite she would “be incapable of remembering and executing this kind of plan.” (Genova 118). She creates a simple test and games to remember simple things of her life, and she can

"Mr. President, how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.'' A prominent quote spoken by American human activist, suffragist, and feminist. Alice Paul was a powerful, open-minded, persistent woman who felt she was obliged in obtaining right's for every woman. Alice made this obstacle her objective and her main asset to this was her grit and the thought of her and other woman having the right to go any place with the utter choice of choosing freely and thinking freely.

She becomes very reactive and unapologetic. Her final step in harming her marriage is stonewalling. Alice starts to pull away from Michael and his love. He wants to help her, but she is not ready to accept that yet. She makes is difficult for the entire family to heal by doing this. She becomes withdrawn and pushes away those who love her. These things are very are very apparent in this couple’s relationship.

Alice holds on to Ned and his promised love, even though was full of illusions, as an absolute truth.      

A major influence on Alice's identity was when she was a young child and her grandmother would tell her stories about events that occurred in Cambodia. In Alice's teenage years, her beloved grandmother has a stroke, developed disabilities and eventually had passed away. It is around this time where serious psychological problems occur for Alice. This almost forces her into a mental state in which she knows she does not fit in with the Australian culture. She believed she had to do everything she could to change that otherwise Alice knew she would break down mentally. Alice was forced to attempt to fit the social standards of Australia.

is a battle that Alice can win, but sometimes as much as you want something, the

The emotional focus of Alice Walker's story is rage, red-hot and isolating.  As I read this piece, I became livid, not only at the thought of her devastating

I personally felt as though it was not bad character development by having the character change her mind so suddenly. I think that Alice was beginning to piece together that there was a reason as to why Marc's ex-wife had left Marc. Alice's doubt eventually led to her dissatisfaction with her own relationship. When the two of the first entered the restaurant, she seemed very content with her love for Marc. She referred to him as "darling" and ordered whatever he liked to eat. However, towards the end, "she did not answer" Marc, but rather just stared at his facial features and contemplated his past. I feel as though since Marc and his ex-wife were only married just "fifteen months ago" that Alice is realizing she does not know a lot about Marc

Also, the character of Alice has some interesting meaning to the story. The character of Alice may be modeled after the author Alice Munro because they have shared similar experiences between men. Apparently, the author had been through a divorce and many of the