Tom Brennan

This powerful characteristic that transitional phases possess have the potential to be a rewarding experience, as they provide an individual with the opportunity for growth and knowledge development through newfound relationships. In ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’, Tom exhibits this through his bond with Chrissy following the dark trauma he endures caused by his brother Daniel. Initially, Tom feels detached from his own identity as he refers to himself in third person “I missed…simple Tom Brennan”, emphasising his deteriorated mental state. However, the relationship he forms with Chrissy is instrumental in his recovery as he begins to find himself again. His passionate tone in “Today I kissed Chrissy Tulake, I felt like Tom Brennan” epitomizes how this bond empowers him to assert a stronger sense of personal identity. Burke, therefore, is able to reveal how transitional

Compare the ways in which the authors of two texts explore how society treats people who are different.

Patrick Flanagan is a famous Oklahoman born in Oklahoma City because he was a child prodigy, is an important scientist with over 300 patents, and was the inventor of the neurophone when he was fourteen years old.

The experience of moving into the world can challenge individuals attitudes and beliefs. Into the world explores the aspects of growth, transition and change. The novel ' The Story of Tom Brennan' by J.C Burke explores the different ways individuals grow when they are taken out of their comfort zones and venture into new experiences. This concept is also conveyed within the song 'Fast Car' By Tracy Chapman and the film 'Charlie st Cloud' Directed by Burr Steers. 'The Story of Tom Brennan' follows the lives of the Brennan family after the events of a fatal car accident, it shows how Tom the protagonist struggles to cope with his past, similarly the song 'Fast Car' is a representation of an escape, a women seeking to flee a life she finds

The experiences of a child or young person when dealing with transitions will affect, positively or negatively, his development, and can have an important role in learning the skills to cope with other

Personal choices are very important in one’s life. The stories that will be compared are, “The Use of Force”, by William Carlos Williams and “Lather and Nothing Else”, by Hernando Tellez. It is how the protagonists deal with a situation and how they use their intellectual thinking to deal with the situation. However, personal choices can change the outcome of a conflict, which will either be insightful or pessimistic. People make their own personal choices in everyday life. If the personal choices are not well-made, the conflict can either have a positive conclusion or negative conclusion.

Flashbacks to Tom’s previous rugby games with his brother re-affirm the loss he feels towards his old life. Tom feels the need to have everything the way it once was, and Coghill can’t replicate the joy he found in the endless afternoon training sessions with Daniel and his father, nor the adulation of the local community.

Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.

Throughout my life, I have been shaped in many ways by the social structures present in my life. I had never realized the importance of these influences before this year as I learned the basics of sociology. Those theories helped me be more aware and have a better understanding of how society influences individuals. This text will present examples of how the person I am today was shaped by social structures

For life, many people succumb to societal expectations which turn them into someone totally different. This idea is explored in Todd Strassers’ “On the Bridge”. In this story, there is a boy that tries to be recognized according to societal expectations. This however, sacrifices his happiness whilst doing so affecting the him negatively. Seths’ experience suggests that societal expectations can affect people negatively , this is because many people want to be one with society.

The periods of transition are also considered the emotional and intellectual stages you pass through from childhood to your retirement years. It is the shifts in one’s ordinary life that makes life inconspicuous and grow according to David Scharff. In each stage, you face challenges in your family life that allow you to build or gain new skills. And this is a reflection of what enables human beings to reinvent themselves a certain part of their lives known as creative development. The adult development transition consist of being single, married, having children, becoming divorced and growing older (Scharff, 2010; Levine, Risen & Althof, 2010. Pg. 73) Gaining these skills helps you work through the changes that nearly every family goes through.

Transition and change within a person encapsulates both a progressive and undesirable result on an individual’s development.

Throughout an individual’s life, he or she is surrounded by choices. Some are more life changing than others. In Veronica Roth’s novel Divergent, Tris Prior, one of the main characters, has one of many choices to make: stay with Abnegation, her born faction, or join Dauntless, the brave. Over the course of the book, Roth incorporates literary elements, such as symbolism and conflict. These symbols and conflicts between Tris and the government work together to create an overall theme: one choice can transform someone.

Fried tells his readers about the development of society through transition. The rankings of society start at Stage A where there is a non-rank, non-stratified

One of the most important sociological concepts is the belief that our behavior and personalities are shaped by our interactions with the environment around us. Whether they be positive or negative, our experiences with them still contribute to the type of person we grow into. Most of the authors we have looked at over the semester have made use of an individual’s conflict with their environment to help readers build a better understanding for the main character. Authors’ have described characters trapped in many different unfavorable situations with their jobs, families, or communities, but where authors’ differentiate their characters from one another is within their reactions to their specific stimuli. In Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess”