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    For this rhetorical analysis, I have chosen to discuss Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted. The novel is based on Susanna Kaysen’s experience of being hospitalized in a mental hospital after her attempted suicide in which she overdosed on a bottle of aspirin which she washed down with a bottle of vodka at the age of 17. What we see in Girl, Interrupted is Kaysen’s strident view on the reality of mental illness and how it affected her and those she shared a ward with. “In a strange way we were free

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    Girl interrupted, is a biopic of a woman named Susanna Kaysen. Even though this movie was about Susanna’s experience in a mental hospital, Lisa’s Personality definitely dominated the movie. Lisa was surly a girl who was interrupted. She had a personality so bold, vibrant, deceitful, corrupt, and intrusive all at once. Over the years, her personality was known by many names. Labels consisting of Mania without delirium, moral insanity, egopathy, sociopath, and psychopathy (Barlow & Durrand, 2015)

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    The novel “Girl, interrupted” by Susanna Kaysen, it is based on Kaysen’s two year stay at McLean Hospital; the mental institute which she was sent to in 1967. She was sent to Mclean’s for psychiatric treatment for depression and borderline personality disorder (BPD). [1] Kaysen wrote the novel in 1993, the story is told by Kaysen herself; it is set in April of 1967. Kaysen at 18 enters Mclean’s Hospital where she only intents to stay for a couple weeks but ends up spending 2 years, due to a doctor’s

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    Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the memoir Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen all tell the story of three women slowly descending into mental illness. Esther, the main character of The Bell Jar falls into a deep depression and attempts suicide despite appearances of being successful. The unnamed narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" becomes insane under the care of her physicist husband, John. And Susanna, the autobiographical main character of Girl, Interrupted, attempts suicide by

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    A comparative literary study of the effect of mental illness on the central characters is the semi-autobiographical novels The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. Comparing two women trying to deal with mental illness and are trying to cope with the mental pressures they put on themselves and by other people. Although the differences between these two novels are The Bell Jar shows Esther’s life before she descends into mental illness whereas Susanna’s story is about

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    Private asylums seem to be like summer camps. In both instances, you are constantly watched and monitored as so you don’t hurt yourselves or others, you are fed, and given a place to sleep. Public asylums are the ones that horror movies and games are based off of. The dingy walls, medical smell and patients that may not be as mild mannered as the private asylum patrons. When presented with the article: Fear and Brutality in a Creedmoor Ward, Philip Shenan describes the lowly treatment of patients

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    as charming — and negative meaning — such as evil or cursing. When used to describe “chords,” “witching” depicts the twin characteristics of the old men’s emotional music, which stands not only as ignoble, as a traditional reading of the story of Susanna might suggest, but also as charming or alluring. (The second part of the poem explains to whom the music might be

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    Me: “The book I decided to read for my English book report is called Wrongful Death by Sandra Gilbert.” Angie: “What is the book about? Why is it called Wrongful Death?” Me: “It’s about Sandra and her husband Elliot Gilbert. In 1990 Elliot is diagnosed with B/C stage prostate cancer. When he goes into surgery is February of 1991 he ends up dying from what the family believes is called malpractice. That’s why its call Wrongful Death.” Angie: “Does B/C prostate cancer have any effect on what operations

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    Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn was the premier artist in 17th century Europe during the great Golden Age of Dutch painting, well known for his Dutch Baroque style of art that lead to his title as one of the greatest painters in history. His incredible brush technique and his masterful appreciation of human nature combined to create a humongous impact on his peers as well as influencing tons of artists of later years.1 He was born on July 15, 1606, in Leiden, Netherlands, a small city located in the

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    Charlotte Temple is a seduction novel written by Susanna Rowson that tells a story about a British soldier, Montraville, who seduces a British schoolgirl, Charlotte, into falsely loving him and following him away to America, where Charlottes tragic life will unfold. Montraville takes advantage of Charlottes love for him and promises her that he will marry her one day and he also tells Charlotte that her parents would be proud and happy to hear that their daughter ran off with a man of honor. This

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