Gone

Recovery and rehabilitation are extremely difficult tasks. It is more of a challenge when the patient is isolated. Mariatu Kamara and Ishmael Beah were victims of this tragedy, although both now live in North America and have written books about their experiences. Mariatu was attacked when she returned to her village for supplies. As a punishment for trying to run away, her hands were brutally removed by the rebel forces. She had to make her way back to a city all by herself to receive medical…

or small. I want to take pride into what I do and not just think of my job as an action to survive. I believe it is difficult to do so in a scene where a good handful of people do not give you the full respect deserved. In the article “Congregation Gone Wild”, G. Jeffrey MacDonald claims that Congregations have shifted their way of approaching their audience in order to “sooth” churchgoers and keep them on their side. Pastors forced to tell stories instead of delivering sermons in order to play…

summer reading project entry 1 the major people in a long way gone include ishmael beah who is the protagonist of the book and through the book he is running from soldiers but eventually he becomes a soldier when he cannot escape them. junior is ishmael's brother who plays a major role in how ishmael acts as a soldier even though junior and ishmael were separated. for example when ishmael was going to reunite with his family just before he got there it was burned down causing ishmael…

The novel Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, is a not-so-typical thriller about a seemingly perfect marriage gone terribly wrong. In the novel, Nick and Amy Dunne have been happily married for five years. For everyone else, family and friends, their marriage was seemingly flawless and filled with love and humor. What no one saw was that Nick and Amy’s’ storybook romance was far from perfect. On the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy Dunne disappeared from their home and all evidence…

Cronenweth, alongside frequent collaborator, David Fincher teamed up to bring forth another modern film with a deep interpersonal, psychological, thriller genre attached. Gone Girl (2014) is a stylistic film that has these filmmakers names written all over it, from their choice of camera to their choice of lighting to the lenses they used, Gone Girl was masterfully crafted. Before filming this movie,…

person. Love and hate are both two very strong feelings that have the ability to make one do unusual things. In extreme scenarios, an individual may feel the need to destroy him or herself if not their significant other in order to attain happiness. Gone Girl’s persistent focus on self-destruction throughout the novel indicates that strong feelings along with discipline can cause people to destroy themselves in diverse ways in order to create their ideal image of themselves as well as their…

off. These facades are often used in order to attract and please the other person, who also has their own persona for the same reason. In Gone Girl, Amy acts as the Cool Girl for Nick, the “charming guy” according to Corliss (1). Both Nick and Amy put on different facades in the beginning of their relationships, but it is once they have been married and gone through the recession that cracks begin to form in both of their characters. Amy’s initial facade as the Cool Girl, which takes places…

This credible effort by William Tuttle explored the important issues or influences that involved in the families of the men who were sent off to war. Tuttle fascinates us with the many diverse circumstances the families had to endure before and after the father’s came home from war. Tuttle also discusses throughout war the many issues that the families suffered such as mothers having to take on both roles, depression of the children, the neglected children during this time period, and the…

Whenever Kara Walker read Gone with the Wind she both thrilled and shocked by the book. Kara explained a specific part in the book that she describes as an epic moment. The moment Walker is referring to is when Scarlett O’Hara was picking roots near the quarters where the slaves…

society often glorifies toxic, and abusive behaviours when it comes to romantic relationships. Specifically within media, male characters are often put on pedestals for doing things that are actually quite harmful. In Susie Kretschmer's, And Summer Is Gone her main character David extremely awful towards his childhood friend Amy. His unhealthy actions towards her, are never seen as such though, instead David’s actions are romanticized by both the author and the reader. Despite his clearly poor…