In “Silver Water” by Bloom, is a sad beautiful fictitious tale about a young girl named Rose, her struggle with schizophrenia and how her family copes with the illness. The tale was open up with the stellar line, “My sister's voice was like mountain water in a silver pitcher, the clear blue beauty of it cools you and lifts you up beyond your heat, beyond your body.” At this scene, the narrator talks about the sister's violet recalls her sister Rose's singing, then explains what she told the therapist, “That's what I like to remember, and that's what I told the therapists.” Rose suffers a “psychotic break,” and spends ten years in and out of hospitals” and a halfway house. Throughout the narrator shows the family coping with the struggle of dealing with a family member with mental illness. The family becomes so disgusted with the therapists, the join in and openly mock one therapist during a session. They are a family that needs the sarcasm to brace themselves, to keep themselves sane. At one point, the violet's mother assures her, “It wont happen to you, honey. Some people go crazy and some people never do.” …show more content…
“Violet keeps coming back to is the memory of her sister's singing”. “Hymns so sweet and mighty you expected Jesus to come down off the cross and clap.” “Eventually, Rose has to return home due to insurance issues and the tension implodes” with a sad but foreshadowed ending that she doesn't want to spoil here. The human in the tale is appropriate because it provides an emotional outlet for the family, that it allows them to find humor and goodness in a situation that can seem so hopeless and
Everyone has a different way to deal with overwhelming situations. It can be more difficult for people with mental illness to cope with the hardships of life. For instance, in “Horses of the Night,” the character of Chris has dissociative symptoms that can be linked to his depression. Margaret Laurence’s short story tells the story of Chris, a young teenager who moves to from a small farm to the town of Manawaka in order to go to high school. The story is told by his younger cousin, Vanessa. As she grows up, she learns that Chris is depressed. The author uses the theme of fantasy to show that he does not cope well with reality. The horses, Shallow Creek, and the children are symbols that show us the fantasy that Chris lives in.
The main character is sent by his father to stay with his grandmother. This is where you learn that the strong heart runs in the family. This is true because she is a seventy-eight year old woman and will still patch out two acres of corn and make enough bread for the winter to do what she can to keep her family feed. In her old age she hasn’t kept the best health. Some days she is too sick to get out of the bed. The main character takes care of her he cooks all the meals for her and helps her start to feel better. Living with her he hears stories of his father and how he is an honest man. Also his grandmother tells him about his grandfather and all the great things he would do. Living with his grandmother is a great experience for the main character because she brings him history of his family and teaches him many things on how to live a content life.
A. The Walls family consists of five members; Rex Walls is the father and Rose Mary is the mother (47 years old). Lori, Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen are the children. Lori is the oldest, she is approximately 27 years old, Jeannette is 24 years old, Brian is 23 years old, and Maureen is 18 years old. As disclosed by Jeannette Walls in The Glass Castle, The Walls have a history of stressors within the five systems levels. More specifically, each member of the Walls has particular challenges they have overcome within the individual, immediate family, extended family, community, and larger society.
“The Violets” by Gwen Harwood is a lyrical poem that deals with a woman who is going through a dark period in her life and she looks to her childhood memories, in particular, her parents for sustenance and support. The poem consists of many themes one of which include memory of childhood, the persona of the poem is going through a rough patch in her life and uses her childhood memories The persona concludes, in the present, that neither time nor death can take away our precious memories or those people or places that belong in those memories. Throughout the poem, the tense shifts between past and present as the speaker reaches back in time to a childhood memory, in order to make sense of the present. Another theme that was highlighted was the importance of memories, this is an important theme because due to the retained power of rejuvenation and reflection that memories hold. The violets is a lyrical poem and it
Rose is unable to fully accept herself or the statements made by her mother throughout the chapter, until she reflects back on her relationship and realizes how her mother predicted this by the condition of the garden taken care of by her husband. She understands her mother finally and stands up to Ted, explaining to him how she was going to fight for everything in the divorce.
Madness and desperation can motivate some of the most extreme actions of individuals. For instance, when faced with a loneliness she was forced into by her overprotective father, Miss Emily Grierson in “A Rose for Emily” struggles to cope with a changing environment after his death. Her mental deterioration even culminates into the murder of her significant other Homer Barron to keep him from leaving her as well. In his story, William Faulkner foreshadows Miss Emily’s mental instability from the very beginning with specific hints. Some of those tactics are portrayed in the description of Miss Emily’s family history, the words and actions of the community, and her inability to distinguish between the past and the present.
Opening into the story, Collier uses mood to help the reader focus on the climax. The mood of the story starts out quite dim, dreary, and depressed. The narrator explains how she believes that God wasn’t accommodating and didn’t provide for them in the beginning of the story. Lizabeth says, “But God was chary with miracles those days, and so we waited- and waited.”(Collier 76). Readers learn from this how the narrator was agitated and didn’t believe that it was fair that they were suffering. She believed that God should be merciful and grant them some miracles. However, downstream in the story, Miss Lottie’s marigolds are beautiful and stunning, which is in opposition the mood from the beginning of the story. The whole story doesn’t have a despondent mood. The narrator continues with, “Beyond the dusty brown yard, in front of the sorry gray house, rose suddenly and shockingly a dazzling strip of bright blossoms, clumped together in enormous mounds, warm and passionate and sun golden.”(Collier 79). This advances the idea of a silver lining in a rotten time. Unfortunately, approaching the end of the story, the mood takes a somber and mournful turn again. After Lizabeth gets caught disfiguring the flowers by Miss Lottie, Lizabeth feels shame, regret, and sorrow,
A person’s insanity can often lead to them being judged and looked down upon by society because they can’t understand that their actions are not accepted in society. This statement is true in relation to the story, “A Rose for Emily”, in the story it is seen how the townspeople speculate about the strangeness of Emily and her family. The story is narrated by several generations of men and women from the town and unlike other stories, the chronology is all over the
Violet Weston is the mother of the Weston girls. Violet plays the role of the addict in this family. She exhibits erratic, irresponsible, anger and abusive behaviors towards her daughters throughout the film. Violet has a tendency to play the victim when addressed about her usage of prescription pills. Violet will use when others aren’t around but her behaviors once overly medicated are apparent that she has a legitimate problem with drugs. Violet has no issues with telling one how it is without any regard to their feelings about what she is say. Violet demonstrates poor communication with her daughters as a result of her usage of prescription pills. As the film progresses, it illustrates how severe Violet’s problem is when he daughters find out she several doctors providing her refills on the pills she was abusing. Violet tied up with her own addiction to secrecy, ultimately pushes away all of her out of the home and her into the arms of the at home housekeeper.
By examining Miss Emily’s behavior and her social relationships, it is possible to diagnose Miss Emily with mental illnesses: PTSD and schizophrenia. Miss Emily Grierson, the main character in “A Rose for Emily,” written by William Faulkner, is a strange character. Miss Emily’s unpredictable and idiosyncratic behavior is bizarre, and the reader, like the townspeople in the story, was left wondering how to explain the fact that Miss Emily has spent years living and sleeping with the corpse of Homer Barron. On page 772, the whole town went to Miss Emily’s funeral when she died. “The men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant--a
In William Faulkner’s short story entitled “A Rose For Emily” the main character Emily’s insanity was not always present throughout the story as much as she rather snapped when all of the stresses and pressures in her life grew to be too much. She dealt with the tragedy of her father passing with great grief, even going to the extent that she refused to believe he was dead for three whole days. Emily was raised by her father and they had a close relationship so it was understandable that she was distraught at his passing, but their relationship was not necessarily healthy.
Throughout the story, “A Rose for Emily” the narrator tells the story from an unnamed narrator's perspective while sharing the town's feelings. This makes the reader feel immersed in the town they are reading about
During a party when Rose was twenty-six, Williams went off on her by saying, “I hate the sight of your ugly old face” (Hoare)! Rose’s illness made her become delusional and a compulsive liar. This disgusted Williams for this was not the sister he knew. Williams never really understood his sister’s illness. Rose’s schizophrenia only got worse as time went on. Finally, her parents felt she was not fit for society in her state. Rose was taken to the State Hospital in Farmington where doctors performed a bilateral prefrontal lobotomy. Tennessee Williams regrets to not stopping the lobotomy, because his sister was never the same again and never recovered. Due to the regret, Williams financed his sister’s private care until his death in 1983. Even though the siblings had a very dysfunctional relationship; Tennessee shows the haunting and suffering he felt in his plays due to his sister’s illness.
First, in his article, Rose sets the scene by efficiently using personal anecdotes as an essential tactic to invoke the emotions of the readers to argue his claim. Rose introduces his readers to his concept by describing two short stories, on being his mother Rosie Rose and she worked as a waitress, left school to provide for her family, and used her memory and coordination when managing the diner and its customers. (pg.1033) This automatically sets the tone that the story is informal and personal, which he uses to invite the audience in emotionally and involve the reader. Namely, Rose continued the story by describing another anecdote of his uncle, Joe Meranglio, who
“A Rose for Emily” is a Southern Gothic short story written by William Faulkner. The main character, Miss Emily Grierson, has a story and personality that can be analyzed from many different viewpoints. Focusing more on the psychological perspective, Miss Emily is very erratic and idiosyncratic in behavior. She isolates herself in her home and locks up her house to prevent anyone from coming in. Her home hides many secrets, but the one that stands out the most is the corpse of Homer Barron, Miss Emily’s lover. For years, Miss Emily has lived and slept with the corpse, which was unknown for many years by all the townspeople. After this is discovered, Miss Emily’s mental health and stability became the main topic of interest to both the townspeople and the readers of this story.