Social Issues In Stown's Poem

Stown Final Suicide awareness, and bullying are becoming big issues but not just for kids in school but for adults too. Stown shows examples of social issues when the person of main focus in the podcast commits suicide it is a wonder why but looking back at the issues that he faces throughout the podcast and the issues that he brings to light it is more obvious why. Stown is a contemporary gothic literature piece because it teaches the readers about decay, social issues, and violence. These things can often lead from one to another and they usually start with social issues. John didn’t socialise himself with others because he was different and had never been treated the same as others. John was smarter, John had never been married, had children or been in a relationship that everyone knew about, not as an adult at least. John didn’t have many friends, and those that he did have he got close to. Since John didn’t have many friends he didn’t have many places to go, places to get help. John was left out from groups in the town because he didn’t socialize with many people. Mary Grace didn’t get along well …show more content…
When John finally committed to ending his life and no longer had a will strong enough to live he drank cyanide as the way to end it all. In his choice to end everything he could have chosen a quicker or less painful way or he could have gotten help and not chosen to make the decisions that he did. This is was makes his suicide so violent on top of the fact that he killed himself. John also made poor decisions based on what he had his friends do to him. He requested his friends, or acquaintances to harm him physically because he found pleasure in it, a temporary release from the pain that he had been experiencing. Rather than making these decisions that could have pushed John to the edge when they were taken away, he could have seen a doctor about everything that was bothering