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The essay goes into great detail of his relationship with his father. He describes his father as cruel (65), bitter (65), and beautiful (64). He does mention the bad in length. On the flip side, he tells us some of the good as well. Throughout his storytelling, the reader gets a glimpse into his life and the way he feels. His feelings evolve during the extent of the essay.

Antwone Fisher was an individual that endured so many things. He faced a lot of challenges that may have seemed impossible to recover from. This story was an example of the many things that some children may experience. Antwone was not raised in an upper crust home. He did not grow up in a home in which his mother and father was present. Instead of having positive role models, he had to live with individuals that were abusive to him. When observing Antwone’s personality, one may refer to two different theorists such as Bandura and Rogers.

Cisneros continues to write phrases like “I don’t remember” and “it was dark” and “make him stop.” These short phrases imitate the way in which the boy was handling Esperanza in the moment; he was using quick and powerful movements and blows to make Esperanza submissive and to gain maximum pleasure from her. Structural techniques, specifically sentence structure, allows readers to see and realize that the pain sexual assault causes affects the way its victims function, through Esperanza’s reflection about her experience at the carnival and Esperanza realizing the severity of sexual

In chapter one, also known as ‘the hurting’, the author focuses on trauma that people have dealt with such as sexual abuse from a father or relative, failed relationships with parents, and difficulty with one’s self-expression. One of the poems in chapter one states that the girl’s first kiss was by the age of five and was carried out in an aggressive manner by the young boy, she assumes that he had picked that up from his father’s interactions with the mother. In the poem it says “He had the smell of starvation on his lips which he picked up from his father feasting on his mother at 4 a.m.” It is insinuated that the father uses forceful actions towards the mother during times that should be gentle and affectionate. In that specific poem she felt as if that was when she was taught that her body is only for giving to those who wanted out of satisfaction but she should feel ‘anything less than whole’. In another poem in chapter one, there is a family setting during dinner in which the father orders the mother to hush. This represents how women are constantly oppressed in their own

Laurie Halse Anderosn has written a book which is considered as a trauma novel “speak”. Usually anger is a phase that begins with madness and ends with regret, but in this book anger will be tackled in different way, Melinda’s anger starts with silence and ends with speaking. In other words it’s starts with fear and ends with triumph over self. Over the course of the novel silence struggling with anger is leading to speak. Anderson incorporated all themes in anger direction with different techniques such as flashback, allusion, symbolism, and fragmentation.

In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allen Poe depicts a gruesome tale. His use of dark imagery and harsh words make this story an unmistakable product of the Dark Romantic period. Poe’s use of the first person narrator adds an important dimension to the story. The narrator’s thoughts are eating him alive and Poe clearly portrays this to readers by repeating words and having the narrator constantly question himself:

In Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak, the protagonist, a freshman named Melinda must learn the key to recovery after enduring extreme trauma. She struggled to find someone to speak to, due to the school shunning her for calling the police at the party. Throughout Speak, Melinda seeks to recover from the trauma she experienced, especially the cruel actions from her ex-friends. Through symbolism, Laurie Halse Anderson displays the theme in Melinda's perspective.

Similar to Theodore Fontaine and many other victims of sexual abuse, Elijah in “Three Day Road” recounts the story of the nun, Magdalene, “who liked to bathe him each week when he was a boy” (Boyden 341). Not only is this abuse physical in nature, but it also immensely impacts one’s state of mind. Elijah is ashamed of himself, and what the authority and religious figures did to him. This shame leads him to deny his Aboriginal culture. Abandoning his Cree identity and adapting to Western beliefs is a coping mechanism and Elijah only wants to forget the painful memories of his past. The faulty assimilation process of residential schools and the physical and sexual abuse traumatize Elijah and dramatically affect his actions, decisions and mental stability later in

In the novel “Indian Horse”, the protagonist Saul goes through many traumatic events such as being assaulted which affected him mentally, psychologically, and physically. For instance, Saul was sexually abused, which left scarred for life. When a person is physically abused it damages them as a whole from inside and outside. As Saul, mentioned boys would be taken away from their dorms “where they went and what happened to them was never spoken of” (Wagamese 81). He used to see and experience events that torn him apart.

There are some images and events that stick with a person forever and can change their entire outlook on life. Sometimes these events are experienced indirectly, through the media, but that does not mean that it impacts the person any less. Audre Lorde is one of those people who is indirectly affected by a tragedy that she witnesses through the eyes of the media and her society. For Audre Lorde, the brutal murder of a young African American boy sticks with her and inspires her to write an emotional poem entitled “Afterimages.” The image of the boy, Emmett till, is forever engraved in Audre Lorde’s brain (Lorde 48). Her poem clearly expresses how distraught she is, not only with what happens to Emmett Till, but also with the views of society as a whole. The theme for Audre Lorde’s “Afterimages” is traumatic events can reflect the attitudes of members of a society and can also significantly impact the lives of young people.

Her father would physically abuse her by slapping and beating her numerous times, letting her degrade herself and making her think this was placed beneath him. He had quoted, “He didn’t even give me a chance to tell me to lie. As I opened my mouth, he stretched out his arm and punched me in the eye” (156). Jules had lacked in teaching his daughter about how she should be treated and how other men and women in the world should treat her. He kept pushing the idea that if Baby did not listen to her then she would be a “whore” (156) and a “slut” (156). Baby understood that her father was a drug addict and that he was mentally ill. The reader can interpret a change in personality of Baby after she’s experienced the notion of an abusive environment, when she told herself, “it's okay. It's okay, sweetie” (157). This was the first time that the reader saw Baby breaking down

Sexuality has an inherent connection to human nature. Yet, even in regards to something so natural, societies throughout times have imposed expectations and gender roles upon it. Ultimately, these come to oppress women, and confine them within the limits that the world has set for them. However, society is constantly evolving, and within the past 200 years, the role of women has changed. These changes in society can be seen within the intricacies of literature in each era. Specifically, through analyzing The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, one can observe the dynamics of society in regards to the role of women through the lens of the theme of sexuality. In both novels, the confinement and oppression of women can be visibly seen as a result of these gender roles. Yet, from the time The Scarlet Letter was published to the time The Bell Jar was written, the place of women in society ultimately changed as well. Hence when evaluating the gender roles that are derived from sexuality, the difference between the portrayals of women’s oppression in each novel becomes apparent, and shows how the subjugation of women has evolved. The guiding question of this investigation is to what extent does the theme of sexuality reflect the expectations for women in society at the time each novel was written. The essay will explore how the literary elements that form each novel demonstrate each author’s independent vision which questions the

Jacobs’ narrative is open and honest in its depiction of sexual harassment, describing the nature of the abuse and the tortured emotional state it leaves its victims in. Though the narrative tells of a girl’s life over one hundred and fifty years ago, it remains timely in its reminder that many suffering women do not have the ability to safely end the harassment they face every day, and yet, they continue to endure the consequential

Each event in one's life whether important, meaningless, joyful or sickening has an impact on that person's character. Harrowing & tragic events occur often as it was for Edgar Allen Poe which left a vast impact on his character. This author's stories focus on his wretched life and obstacles placed in the forms of stories. His unfortunate events turned into eerie, emblematic tales such as “The Raven”, “The Black Cat”, “The cask of amontillado” & more which all have twisted plot lines such as horror, sadness, revenge etc.

The objective of this study is to compare Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Stephen King's "Misery". Poe's work entitled "The Tell-Tale Heart" begins with the statement: