The Nature Of Hae And Adnan's Relationship

Improved Essays
This episode explains the nature of Hae and Adnan’s relationship. Though their relationship was forbidden by their immigrant parents they still dated behind closed doors. They both understood the constraints of their relationship and knew they had to be secret lovers. They were sexually active and both claimed to be in love with one another. Hae would often express how she felt she was pushing Adnan away from his religion but Adnan would disagree saying “I wasn’t that religious.”( https://serialpodcast.org ). Whether or not their parents approved of these two they were always together because they were both in a magnet program at school. In Haes diary she would go on and on about how Adnan was so sweet and she was madly in love with him. She also expressed the first time she fell in love with him, which was at their junior prom. Based off our course content I can conclude, their biological influences was beginning to weigh down on the two. Hae felt she was getting in Adnan’s way and she would often cry on the phone because she missed him so much. Adnan felt he didn’t see her enough so he would often make unexpected visits when Hae would be out with her friends. Because of this the prosecutor tried to paint Adnan as “possessive” and “controlling”, I believe he was just a young man in love. He was obsessed. She was obsessed. Upon hearing Haes diary it was clear to see she was accustomed to their secret relationship, since they both had strict parents. (https://serialpodcast.org/season-one). I found this very interesting because the courts made it seem as if …show more content…
(Barlow, D.H., & Durand, M. 2015). In the case of Adnan and Hae they both were more affected by social influences. Since both their families disapproved of them they never told their families of the nature of their relationship. This is why once Adnan’s mother found about Hae she went to his school dance to scold

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    Hae Min Lee's Murder Case

    • 1283 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Woodlawn High School was where Hae and Adnan went at the time and where Jay had recently graduated from. Jay knew Adnan and Hae because he was dating a girl named Stephanie. Stephanie was good friends with Adnan Syed. Rabia Chaundry, an immigrant lawyer who knows Adnan personally, said, “Who was Jay? Jay was a former…

    • 1283 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Adnan's Testimony

    • 1128 Words
    • 5 Pages

    This made him seem as if he would be heartbroken after she broke up with him. Since Adnan would go to check up on Hae, her best friend Aisha said on Serial that she believed he was kind of obsessive with her. When the prosecutors were doing their best to convict Adnan, they stated that he had killed Hae because he was so guilt ridden that he went against his parents and his religion. He wasn’t going to let a girl dishonor him like that. In Hae’s diary, she mentions that Adnan had called Hae the devil in the past.…

    • 1128 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The relationship between a parent and their child can be the utmost complicated, yet valuable relationship one can have. The relationship you have with your parents plays an important role in shaping who you are and who you’ll be; it determines your true identity. Authors Amy Tan, Putsata Reang, and Sherman Alexie all implemented clear descriptions of their personal relationships with their parents. Despite how complex their relationships might have been, these authors tell us how their relationships with their parents did indeed shape them into becoming the individuals they are in present day. Amy Tan would not be the individual she is today if she did not face the obstacles that came her way.…

    • 1014 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As writer Jon Meacham said, “The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.” The American Dream is the belief that with hard work, anyone, from anywhere, can be successful and live a prosperous life. Through his book, Our Kids, Robert Putnam illustrates how the American Dream is much less attainable.…

    • 1202 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    In 1973, David L. Rosenthal started a provocative study of mental hospital. This study is “On Being Sane in Insane Places”. Rosenthal motivation was to figure out if psychologist, psychiatrist, and other mental health professionals could really distinguish between the mentally ill and the mentally healthy based on a diagnosis brought upon certain characteristics. Those characteristics included the context of the behavior, the persistence of the behavior, the social deviance the person presents, their subjective distress, the psychological handicap they might experience, and the effects on their functioning that the behavior might cause (Hock, 2013). Rosenthal decided to start this study because he questioned if those characteristics that created…

    • 1289 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Not only that but the only person who claims to have seen him in that time frame “called one of the prosecutors in… the case…and undermined her own statement” proving his actual location was unknown at the time. It is unusual that Adnan would not remember anything about this crucial day because he received a phone call from the police. He says he does “remember that phone call and [he does] remember being high at the time” but continues to deny remembering anything else because the day was “normal”, but, receiving a phone call from the police does not seem very normal and most people would remember the events leading up to it. Another reason why Adnan is legally at fault is because he…

    • 1232 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A person’s development and outcome is directly associated with the type of influences they have in their lives. Whether they are good influences or bad, there is a strong correlation between the character of a person and the type of people by which they are influenced. Often family members, especially parents, act as the most influential factor in a person’s life. The influence of family members was one of the major themes in The Other Wes Moore. Both Wes’ were significantly influenced by at least one, if not more, close family member and the influence these people had on the Wes’ lives respectively shaped the people they ultimately became.…

    • 483 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Why Adnan Syed Is Innocent

    • 1124 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Certainly the jurors thought it was a crime of passion, although the judge did not think it was not a good motive. The jurors during this case were as quick as lightning and convicted Adnan of first-degree murder, in under two hours. How can a jury convict someone for first degree murder in under two hours, especially not having enough evidence to prove Adnan did kill Hae? All they had was Jay’s testimony, which brings me to my second reason as to why Adnan is innocent of the murder of Hae Lee.…

    • 1124 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Each and everyday the interactions we have with people mold us to be the person we are today. Interactions influence our personality, and the paths we chose in life. Relationships such as parents, relatives, and even ex-girlfriends, can have the most profound impact on our lives. It has been proven that parents play an important role in the emotional development for children. In Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison uses the relationship between Ruth, Hagar, Pilate, and Milkman to demonstrate how the women influence our lives greatly.…

    • 1219 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Even with all of this in mind, the court sees him as the main suspect and is not dissuaded by his normal persona. They pin him as Hae Min Lee’s killer by using the jealous boyfriend stereotype. It is also bad for his case when there are phone records and accounts of him acting strange on the day of her murder. Jay seems to be the only one that has a story that is sound enough to have Adnan as the main suspect.…

    • 851 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Jay was Adnan’s drug dealer and friend. According to Jay, Adnan popped the trunk open of his car and showed Jay the dead, strangled body. He says Adnan was proud of killing Hae. Jay says during a police interview, “I noticed that Hae wasn't with him. I parked next to him.…

    • 757 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The movie “Stand by Me” released in the year of 1986, focused on four children most likely the age of twelve. These four children, named Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy, discovered that a stranger in their small town had been killed accidently decide to go explore their town to discover the body. During their journey, they learn more about one another and their very different home lives. The differences in development between the characters is quite apparent.…

    • 817 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Fathers and sons worldwide have had power struggles and brawls over the superiority of themselves since the beginning of time. Mothers and daughters, more loving and gentle, have been seen as more level-headed and open to new things for eons. Nothing since has changed. Written by Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart explores these types of parental relationships and their differences in a culture. In Things Fall Apart, the relationships between the parents and their children play an integral role in the actions of the characters, and the culture as a whole.…

    • 754 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The book Chinese Cinderella, by Adeline Yen Mah, is an autobiography of being born as the fifth child of a depressing time. Adeline’s mother soon passed away after she was born which labeled her as the “cursed” child, which led to the distance between her and her family. The only people who truly displays affection toward her were her grandfather, Ye Ye, and her Aunt Baba. But soon after her mother died, her father remarried a young French-Asian woman, who she refers to as Niang, who married her father for his money, displays little to no sort of affection to either the father or the five children. She only tends to her son and her daughter.…

    • 1242 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The dictionary defines self-image as the idea one has of his/her abilities, appearance, and personality. Self-image is the way one sees him/herself and the opinion one has of him/herself. One’s view of him/herself will change over time as he/she interacts with more people. Self-image is also reflected in novels. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is the autobiography of Maya Angelou.…

    • 805 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays