The Traditional Australian National Discourse The traditional Australian national discourse has the feature of masculinity which has been explored and challenged in the texts, Fly Away Peter (1999), An Elegant Young Man (2014) and The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert (1994). These texts will be examined to discover the devices they use to present a counter-discourse and what commentary they have on the discourse. The feature of masculinity is a strong part of the Australian national discourse which is a popular theme in texts. It is particularly strong on the idea that Australians are tough people, who have homosocial relationships and a patriarchal social system (Hogan 2010, P.64).…
A Change in Ward Policy In the novel, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey, the protagonist, Randall Patrick McMurphy, demonstrates a quest of redemptive sacrifice in order to protect the patient 's in the psych ward from the antagonist, Nurse Ratched. Through McMurphy’s heroic endeavors such as attempting to change ward policy, he is able to establish his own identity and fulfill his destiny. McMurphy is the essence of what a leader should be.…
Section 1 Page Range: 1-58 Dates Read: 9/12-9/20 Original Summary: Chief Bromden, a half Native American and Caucasian, is a patient in a psychiatric ward who pretends to be deaf & mute and is the narrator of the story. The psychiatric ward is overseen by Nurse Ratched, who abuses her authority, controls the ward with cruelty and perfection, and has little medical understanding. Chief recalls of Nurse Ratched’s abuse when she sent a patient to receive multiple electroshock treatments for inquiring about what was in their medicine. The wards strict, everyday routine is disrupted once Randle McMurphy, a new patient at the ward, arrives. McMurphy’s boisterous and lewd personality causes the patients to feel a change within the ward.…
Thematic Essay The novel “Medicine Walk” written by Richard Wagamese shows the devastating story of two characters. One of the characters is Eldon who is an alcoholic and is the father of Frank. In the book, it shows how in Eldon’s early life he loses many loved ones which changes who he is. As time goes on, Eldon resorts to alcohol as a way to shelter his pain.…
Imagine being placed in a horror story full of dread and isolation, would one be able to remain sane throughout their whole experience? Horror stories in all types of media from novels to films often focus on a protagonist eventually losing their mind, as well as their grasp on reality. This same idea is presented in each media; The Real Bad Friend written by Robert Bloch, The Others directed by Alejandro Amenábar, and I Am Legend directed by Francis Lawrence, where the protagonist slowly loses their sense of what is real or not due to the abrupt change in events, the self conflict that each character faces as well as hallucinations that are created to help the character feel in control and cope in the situation they are in. Furthermore, throughout…
In One Foot in Eden, by Ron Rash a young man named Holland Winchester has disappeared without a trace in a small North Carolina town. Throughout the many narrations of One Foot in Eden, the novel lacks the most important, the victim who has been unfairly murdered. There are five other narrators that tell their own story in the timeline, which include: Sheriff Alexander, who is investigating; the husband who committed the crime; his wife; their young son; and the deputy aiding in the investigating. Throughout these narrations, Holland Winchester is told to be a trouble delinquent who has recently returned from the Korean War. Everyone is the town believes Holland Winchester is trouble, causing them to carry a deep grudge for Holland.…
This sense of liberation represents the opening of his mind to new ideas and…
Life is a fragile collection of events and perceptions. Each perception has the potential to change in an instant, but only if the individual is emotionally involved. In “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey, Kesey demonstrates that life remains an illusion until traumatic life events alter this self-perception--providing the individual is capable of experiencing empathy. In the cases of Bromden and McMurphy during their time in the mental institution, their view of reality alters drastically by events they witness, while there is no change experienced by Nurse Ratched as she is unable to experience empathy.…
In “The Art of Racing in the Rain” there are many reoccurring themes. In Garth Stein’s novel, themes are used to convey the story line. A theme is the subject of talk, a person’s thoughts, or reoccurring message throughout the story. In a novel a there can be one major theme or there can be many minor themes. The author, in this particular novel, had used multiple themes to convey one colossal message.…
He considered this his, “first sustained encounter with an adult outside my family who needed to be convinced my worth as a person”…
This story is titled, The Death of Tommy Grimes, because when Tommy shoots a black man, a small part of him dies along with the man he has killed. Before Tommy kills the man, he is waiting for something to come for him to shoot. In the beginning of the story, he never wanted to hurt anything or anyone, but now he was waiting to kill. When Tommy is outside he thinks to himself, “There was something out there! The happy-scared feeling ran up and down Tommy’s back and his breath came in painful gasps.”…
What Remains of ourselves when money is allowed to cloud our Humanity? Tom McCarthy’s, Remainder, is about a nameless narrator who is recovering from an accident. He doesn’t remember much about it. “Technology.…
At the beginning, instead of confessing the truth, the protagonist pretends to be a police detective. When his lover is brutally killed, the protagonist chooses to avoid his grief by sleeping with a seductive but older woman in the motel. When the motel is threatened by the murderer, the protagonist becomes very violent, not only to the murderer but also to other motel residents. Convinced that he is actually trapped in his own dream, the protagonist smashes his own head in the wall to “wake up”.…
Dream house is about Schizophrenia. Its scene first began in Will’s eyes retiring from a firm as a successful author and editor, so as to spend more time with his wife and kids, who already living in their dream house. But in reality he was in fact leaving a mental institute, where he had reside for five years because of his mental disorder and his family he thought was at home had been dead for five years. He did not no that he has been living into a delusional world. The beautiful house he saw and living in is actually an old broken down house not fit for occupancy.…
It’s been ten years of this marriage and I can’t take it anymore, I want to leave but I don’t know how to get out. I've asked for a divorce bu but tells me no each time, I feel like a prisoner to this man, he just keeps me around to take care of the house when he's gone, I'm scared for my life, he's never hit me but when he drinks he becomes very violent. I need to get out before he hurts me. I can hear him coming in the house the clicks of his boots, rumble through the house it gets louder as he comes down the hall I sat up on the couch waiting for him to come in. “Hi honey welcome home..”…