Mental Illness In War's End

Many people have been dealing with their own mental disorder because mental disorders would be always follow them and be at their side by side. They could and they couldn’t overcome their mental disorder because some of them know there is no help that will make their lives easier or better. The mental illness takes control of people. Few mentally ill people can easily bear their illness because they know that their having mental disorder makes their “normal” living extremely difficult. They doesn’t mean they have each living has been messed up, but any situation caused them. In Haslett’s story, “War’s End,” he shares about the husband named Paul who has been suffering with his depression, for several years, long enough to know there is no cure for it. In the story, Paul and …show more content…
Paul planned to kill himself, and was ready to do so until, he met a young boy, Albert who is dying from a terminal illness in his body. Paul wants the chance to befriend the boy and distract him with stories from English history before he dies. Albert and he’s going to help him on their last days. In Paul’s mind, he says, “It will not be long now, he thinks, for either of them,” (Haslett, 92) and they’re prepared to die on anytime. In other story, “My Father’s Business,” about the son, Daniel of a father who gave the bipolar disorder in their generation and they may not have a bond. As the story, Daniel takes a trip to visit his friend and he’s researching the file; the records and the letters. These things are talking about the philosophy, psychiatrist, and interview. Before he opens the file, Haslett says, “Daniel realizes there is part of him that doesn’t want to open the file, doesn’t want to read the interviews...” (Haslett, 129). Daniel knows if he listens these things, and it can be cruel him by his own father,