The Great Divorce

My parents decided to get a divorce less than two years ago, in fact, this weekend marks the two-year anniversary of the day they decided to split up. The Sunday after Thanksgiving; it is a day that no one in my family will ever forget I am sure. The four of us were sitting around the square, wooden dinner table eating leftover turkey and stuffing. Mom and Dad had been fighting since we had gotten home from church. Alex and I had spent the remainder of the morning hiding upstairs with our…

it will work if you put forth the effort. When I refer back to Debra Fileta article she stated, “Marriage is not a walk in the park. It is a road full of really hard choices, ridiculous selflessness, and constant service.” I believe that the high divorce rates are examples of couples getting married for all the wrong reasons. When my husband I got married I was excited and nervous at the same time. As this was something new to me. And although, our marriage is not perfect I can honestly say that…

“I strongly believe children can thrive through divorce. Children need parents who love them. Children need to know they are. Children need stability and sometimes that’s much easier to achieve outside a marriage than in a broken one”-Lisa Hayes. During the early stages of my life, I witnessed what is becoming a decreasing issue in America, divorce. My mother and father came to America in search of a new beginning, and in the process had me. After a few months in America, my parents brought over…

requires mutual understanding and commitments from both partners, and divorce has become a number one issue in our modern life, especially in America. People get divorced as quick as the decision that they have made to live together. Divorced people are from different ranges of age and situations of life in the society. Not all the decisions of breaking up is bad. However, kids are the party who suffer the most from their parents’ divorce. Therefore, parents in marriage trouble should stay…

Parental alienation syndrome, at first the term was foreign to me, until after reading the definition I then noticed that not only did I understand its definition, but I could also relate it to my own personal life which was my reason for choosing this topic for my paper. Throughout my paper I will critique the credibility of the magazine article “Teaching Kids to Hate” published by Jose Fernandez of the American Bar Association in June 1988, by comparing it to the following educational…

One might think that any marriage that lasts and does not end in divorce is a lasting, healthy, and successful marriage. On the surface such a statement would appear to be true. However, many unhappy and unhealthy marriages never end in divorce. This does not mean that the parties involved were successful; it only means that they suffered through an unhappy and unhealthy marriage and possibly did so when…

In class on Friday, Brandon shared a brief story of his experiences during holiday breaks. In this essay I will be conducting a narrative analysis of Brandon’s story by looking at how the events unfold in time according to the way he chose to tell them and how he portrays his character in the story. I will first begin by analyzing the way in which Brandon decided to tell the events of his story. The order in which events transpire in a story is important to analyze in order to truthfully…

to be known as a commitment and not as a one time romance. In my opinion one needs to know the other partner well enough in order to marry the other person. These days people get married without knowing the other person well enough leading to high divorce rates. During the first 5 years of marriage there is a 20 percent chance of the couple getting divorced. This may seem to not be a big deal but two out of every 10 people get divorced out of their first 5 years of marriage. Marriage can bring…

“Divorce, huh?” I whimpered. In a moment, the carefully constructed lines on my mom’s face that arduously painted her contained sorrow, melted into tears, while my dad’s despondent eyes watered into an ocean that his boat could never wade through. In I walked into the room of a finished marriage. White, somber, official papers brimmed with adultery and years of regrets---scattered across my parent’s bed and bedroom floor. While my parents rehearsed in their minds the contrived lies they were…

In C. S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce, Lewis is arguing that Hell is not merely a place where wicked people who detest God end up; Hell is a place that offers people exactly what they want. The Great Divorce presents “the reason for Hell,” which is people choosing their own wishes over God (Gibson 110). This novel reveals that the self-imprisonment of one’s greatest dreams can lead to infernal results (Gibson 113). In The Great Divorce, Lewis uses Dantean structure, the nature of Grey Town, and the…