The mother had called her because her children were being taken away from her. The caseworker explained to her why it had come to this, but the mother had so many excuses. The caseworker showed no sympathy for the mother because she did not do what she was supposed to have done in order to keep her children. The caseworker was talking in a stern loud tone. I understood why she had to talk loudly and a little harsh.…
Within the story “A Sorrowful Woman,” Gail Godwin weaves a tale that tells the story of an intriguing family that likely seems normal on the surface, but within has deep issues. The story ultimately ends with the unfortunate death of the protagonist, with the death being surrounded in mystery. Ultimately, the wife’s death comes down to her sickness being incurable and her needing to have some control of what was going on within her life. When the wife is initially sick, it isn’t very clear as to what could make her as physically sick as she was. Simply looking at her child should not be enough to make anyone physically sick.…
I thought the author brought a vivid example of the situation, which caught my attention. The author also uses emotion to sway the audience shows how their point of view is. They use words in the article like "tragedies", "victims", "danger","abusers", and "defenseless woman". Those words alone would sympathize the readers view to the situation differently because most people make their judgments based off their…
The laughter in the novel drives the survival of the characters. With issues that have the power to tear families apart, laughter offers the opportunity to bond with one another, building both people and communities up. Being able to laugh at hardships brings strength. This is demonstrated by the telling of the story of June’s almost tragedy of being hung.…
So, this only further shows how love, support, and acceptance from others only somewhat affect a person’s happiness. There are however, other factors that can be found in Solomon’s and Gilbert’s pieces that impact one’s happiness. Additionally, one’s happiness can be dependent upon their self-acceptance, acceptance…
In the story Stolen Day, a little boy encounters his joints starting to hurt, and he thinks he has inflammatory rheumatism. When he gets home his mother is busy so he waits on the porch till his mother tells him to go to his room and lay down for awhile. After an hour he comes back down and he realized his mother did not check up on him the whole time, so he now thinks that she does not care. So he goes fishing and tells himself that his family would only care when he were to drown, then right at that moment he catches a huge carp, and feeds his family with it. At the dinner table he has an internal conflict and does not want to tell his family about the illness because he is afraid that they will laugh at him.…
These incidents highlight "winning and rivalry". She spotlight group advisers and people must tolerate the error for being followers…
This is shown by the actions and characteristics of John to his wife. John ignores her requests and doesn’t care of her well being. Since John is referred to a physician her should have taken better care of his wife and realized that solitary confinement was not the cure. John should have ignored being a physician and focused on being a supportive husband to his wife. This story helped explain how the gender inequality impacted women and how they felt inferior.…
One way she achieves this by bringing to light the irony behind the concept of the pursuit of happiness. Viktor Frankl put it more eloquently when he said, “It’s the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness” (Smith, E., 2013). People who seek a happy life end up spending most of their time pursuing it instead of actually being happy in the present moment. Smith even goes as far as to point out that: from a social perspective, the pursuit of happiness is associated with selfish behavior—[being] a “taker” rather than a “giver.” The psychologists [explain] happiness is about drive reduction.…
In this short response I have shown the moments, most prevalent to me, that occurred in the first two sections of the book entitled “East” and “West”. The moments in which I described represent Joy’s strife in trying to define herself as a human…
First, he states that today’s society focuses on being happy, and then goes on to say that over a three month span in 2013, Amazon released over one thousand books about happiness (Brooks 566). While talking about how suffering helps people find deeper parts of themselves, he explains how theologian Paul Tillich believed that when people suffer, they are “taken beneath the routines of life and find they are not who they believed themselves to be,” (Brooks 567). Brooks concludes that one should take something good from the bad. He uses the examples of the parents of deceased children starting foundations in their honor, and Holocaust survivors trying to live up to the expectations of the loved ones they lost in concentration camps. Through these points, he proves that he actually has information to support his claims, and that he is not just producing…
He makes up his miserable life experience to obtain sympathy and trust, such as his heart condition and father’s accident. From his fake misfortune, Joy finds resonance and it also moves Mrs. Hopewell.…
He decided to do something about his professional concerns. However, he did not expect to facing the harassment, was forcibly transferred with his wife, and threaten to demote his prestigious position by his associates in the organization. However, he stood up and fought for what he believed in his own ethical, subjective, and objective principles. Over 33 years of his dedication…
She believes that if she writes to readers who are struggling to find happiness, she may be able to aid them in finding it. She also shares Frankl’s story to show others that someone who went through something as horrendous as the holocaust was able to figure out where happiness was found in many different…
Humans are able to choose happiness even in the darkest moments but true joy brings contentment, rather than fear that any minute you might lose it. During the time that Nadine Gordimer wrote, “Once Upon A Time” crime was rampant in South Africa as a result from the oppression and poverty caused by the horrors of Apartheid. Gordimer goes on to tell the story of a family living “happily ever-after” with their son and their domestic workers, but because of the social climate around them they are constantly under threat of violence and theft and their happy ending is ultimately destroyed when their son gets caught in the barbed wire fence that secures their house. In the attempt to protect their happiness, the parents fail to neglect their own…