She loves the boy who was four years ago and not the man who is now standing in front of her. His son tricked a girl into getting into his car where he raped her and now he is back to spill salt in her kitchen as he did after he ate his breakfast. Because she doesn’t want to look into his face, she pretends that she is sick then she goes to her room. There are many unanswered question in Myrna’s mind, and she couldn’t stay at her home anymore and be her mother so she leave with a note for Kenny that it means he should go away within a week. In my point of view Myrna made a good decision in this situation for two reasons, first it is a good punishment for Kenny as she dose’s want to be her mother any more.
Enough to help someone who wants to commit suicide, or someone who’s been sexually assaulted, or abused, and for those who’ve lost a loved one. You can see me at school with a smile on my face and a bunch of friends surrounding me, but there’s more to me. This is my story. How I was lost, sexually assaulted, hurt, depressed, went through grieve, and finally how I recovered. I was the first born and was the only child till I was six, but during those six years I witness my mother getting hit by my father and him being drunk every day and never home.
They meet daily in a parking lot. Almost everything in this area is destroyed by the bombings from WWII and only the house of Old Misery stands almost undamaged. One day Blackie loses his leadership to T because he suggests to hitch free bus rides and T suggests to bring down Old Misery’s house from the inside, taking advantage of his upcoming two days absence. The next day the gang meets in the same place, and T starts giving directions. They cut all the wiring, tore the floors, broke the doors and smashed the fixtures.
He is socially inept, awkward with people and has a set of ideals by which he lives which indicates that he is suffering from depression. Holden is suffering from a mental disorder which is caused by the death of his brother Allie of which he has not allowed himself to grief properly. In Chapter 5 Holden talks about his brother Allie and what he did after he died. He says “I was only 13 and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage”. Holden narrates that he smashed windows of the garage and cars, and he literally lost it.
As Jolly, Old Saint Nick stepped forward, desperate to escape his pain, he fell into the fifteen-foot pit you had dug so diligently just hours before. You turned your lamp back on, taunting the old fellow now entangled in a mesh of ropes. The ropes pulled tighter and tighter, your intricate contraption setting an excruciating pace. Saint Nick could feel his mortality as death stared him in the eyes. You ran out onto the street, deranged yelling waking up the entire neighbourhood.
The very thing that makes us human is our choice to act or not act, our ability to question, examine and decide. But what happens when the responsibilities of choosing to or not to are placed on another and the persons own ability to choose remains dormant or suppressed due to abiding by another’s standards which have been put forth. What humanly instincts are recessive or dominant, what overcomes the other? Obedience or Defiance? I.
Allie, Holden's young brother who died several years beforehand is a major symbol throughout the novel. When Holden remembers incidents from his past involving him, his attitude changes, such as when he writes the composition about Allie's baseball glove or when Holden remembers breaking his hand after punching all of the windows after Allie’s passing. "I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddamn windows with my fist, just for the hell of it”, (Salinger 39). He feels that Allie was one of the few people who was normal in a world full of phonies. More importantly, Allie represents the innocence and childhood that Holden strives to find throughout his three-day journey.
They want a change in the education system so that children can prosper and be able to boost our declining economy. Children have always dreaded going to school because of boring classes and monotone teachers, but children are not only noticing this but so are influential adults. Robinson describes the school system as a factory forming students into what we want and banishing out the ones that do not reform into the model student. Moore agrees that the school system is suppressive when he says, “As soon as I entered high school-the public school system…I was walking the halls of a two-thousand-plus –inmate holding pen” (134). Moore felt trapped and earlier revealed that he dropped out of school sophomore year because he disliked school from first grade.
As seen through various characters, they soon begin to apply “Carpe Diem”, a well-known poetic phrase, to their everyday lives. However, as seen through Neil Perry, the film’s main character, some students are unable to fully do so, as they fall victim to parental oppression. Neil, the main character, is placed under harsh parental pressure to become a doctor. However, Neil wishes to become an actor but is certain that his father will disapprove of his choice. He secretly auditions for the role of Puck in the prep school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, however, much to his dismay, his father learns of his actions and forces him to withdraw from the play.
Penelope Lively’s “The Happiest Days of Your Life” tells the story of young Charles who silently suffers the consequences of his parents’ neglect of properly taking care of him. The young boy is at a point where he is trying to find a preparatory school for him, and he and his parents visit a well-reputed school that may not be as good after all. His unconfident and shy nature leads to an anticlimactic culmination which is ultimately because of the parents’ lack of attention during Charles’ entire childhood. Charles is approximately 7 years old seeing as he is going to find a preparatory school. He is a shy boy who very rarely speaks.