The Silver Lining

House explores the challenges of moving into new worlds as the father and son protagonists experience very different catalysts which provoke profound self-reflection and personal transformations. Similarly, Honey Brown’s autobiographical, The Silver Linings, depicts the adversities and obstacles that she faced as she embarked on a painful journey of rediscovery, ultimately moving into a new world of self-acceptance and independence, shifting her…

The movie character I am choosing to study is Pat Solitano from Silver Linings Playbook. In the beginning of the movie you, learn that Pat is seeking help in a Maryland mental health institution. Pat has experienced trauma that affects him throughout the movie. Pat is married to a teacher named Nikki. One day he came home to his wedding song playing on the stereo. Nikki’s clothes along with another man’s pants were strung out all throughout the house. The clothes led to the shower. Nikki is…

In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” written by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe kills an old, innocent man. The man lives with a vulture eye, obsessed over by Poe, until he is brutally murdered. Poe goes off the wall. David O. Russell directs a similar story, The Silver Linings Playbook. Pat is suffering from bipolar disorder and has just been discharged from a mental asylum after spending a year there for almost beating a man to death. He continues to struggle building relationships with others. Both Poe’s “The…

feelings of freedom are interrupted when her sister, Josephine, drags her to the door where Mr. Mallard stood, alive. The theme of the story is an ironic and it presents the audience with an optimistic message with the reminder that every cloud has a silver lining. Often times during fiction, the story builds up slowly into suspense, either from a happy opening or a shocking one. This little story seems to have started with a shocking one. The beginning of Mr. Mallard’s death would have filled…

With every cloud comes a silver lining. I always heard the saying growing up and never seemed to understand its true meaning. While taking a microeconomics class we dug deep into this topic. That’s when I was able to wrap my head around its true definition. I feel as if the economy crash a couple years was bound to happen. Our morals were out the window for a few dollars. Everyone from the buyers to the sellers were jeopardizing significant values to make sells complete. I feel as if we could…

open mindedly for the purpose of self improvement. Thesis Statement: As social beings, we rely on the society’s judgment and comments to know ourselves and to grade us, however, the truth and feedbacks may sting it is up to us to look for its silver lining. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: (CRITICIZE YOUR AUDIENCE) Maybe now you’re thinking: seriously, do you have to do that? Or excuse me who gave you the permission to insult me? Or do I really…

Louisville, Kentucky to Karen and Gary Lawrence. Jennifer grew up on a farm with her parents and brothers, Blaine and Ben. In 2013 Jennifer won an awarded and Oscar for the best performance by an actress in a leading role, thanks to the movie “Silver Linings Playbook”. Before her successful acting career started, however; as a child Jennifer was heavily medicated and placed in therapy. Jennifer was usually bouncing off the walls. It wasn’t until she stared acting did her doctors, therapists,…

line cut, and a silver bodice. It hugs the body, and then flares out at the bottom to mimic a mermaid tail. The dolls stole is made up of white marabou feathers, and cascades down with black chiffon and silver lining. Along with the elegant dress, the doll is adorned with long, dark evening gloves that reach up to the elbows. The Mattel doll also includes jewelry accessories. The art deco and rhinestone pins are lines along the silver bodice of the dress. The Barbie also wears silver rhinestone…

In her book The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter’s intended to extract the latent content from the traditional stories, fairy tales, but to not make her own version. She saw fairy tales in a new way. Not the same way as beginning with once upon a time, a princess needs help, prince save the day and they all lived happier ever after. No, Carter draws out the theme of feminism by contrasting traditional elements of Gothic fiction, which usually illustrate female characters as powerless and vulnerable…

SILVER LINING The first year of living after the Vietnam War ended in 1975 was the most difficult for me. When I heard my president Minh Duong, in South of Vietnam, commanded us to give up and hand the weapons to the North Vietnamese Communist Party, it felt like an atomic bomb exploded inside my head. My entire life, my body, and my heart fell down as I came to a free fall. For weeks I gradually got used to a new reality that my government lost the war. When terrible things happened to me after…