The life of JULIANA MARA has always been marred with deceit and manipulation. While taking photographs of one of her patients, she’s transported to her childhood home. When she was thirteen years old, she witnessed the murder of her mother and the mutilation of her brother. Her father, LAWERENCE MARA, now a crotchety elderly man in his sixties, assigns her to be his protégé. As a teenager, she’s given surgery to look perfect and her father inspects her every day. Juliana is prohibited from having friends. He prohibits her from dating or communicating with anyone but him. Juliana graduates high school and enrolls in medical school, to the bequest of Lawrence. Whilst in medical school, she meets a fellow classmate and fell in love with him. …show more content…
Lawrence, upset that Juliana disobeyed him, used this as leverage. He also threatens to murder the father of the child. Her father sets her up with AARON SHAW, a thirty two year old African-American, who is editor of a prominent magazine. Lawrence uses blackmail that he has on Aaron to have Aaron keep Juliana’s child captive. If Juliana doesn’t follow through with the family “business”, the child will die. MIKE GALARZA, a Hispanic Private Investigator for the law firm Rollins and Ambrose, is in his thirties and three months sober after spending years of binge drinking. He goes to visit his younger sister, MALIA GALARZA and realizes that she isn’t there. The police go on a two week long search, only to not uncover a shred of evidence. Upset that the police have given up, Mike takes his own measures and goes to find his …show more content…
Patient 1AMH0 AKA Maureen Higgins, was a rotund woman in her mid-forties. She has had surgery performed on her and now looks fifty pounds lighter. Dean provides her with paper notes and a rusty nail. She uses parts of her skin and scratches a message onto her skin with the nail. She then eats the paper notes. Mike goes to his sister’s apartment, and doesn’t find a hair out of place. He finally decides to check a paper shredder. He spends hours taping the strips of paper together. It all pays off, as he recreates a business card for the office of Juliana Mara. Patient 1AMH0 is being prepped for another surgery. While Dean restrains her during surgery, he loosens the straps and hands her a scalpel. She releases her restraints and slits Juliana’s throat once Juliana leans closer to her. Lawrence takes a shiv that he crafted from underneath his bed, as his nurse inches closer to the door of his
Susan Griffin’s “Our Secret”, a chapter in her book, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, is about the hidden shame and pain humans carry and their consequences. It is an astonishing essay, a meditation on the soul-destroying price of conforming to false selves that have been brutalized by others, mentally or physically or both, or by themselves in committing acts of violence and emotional cruelty.
TS: The role that Leigh Anna and Michael’s real mother play in his life is like day and night.
Although Josie is struggling so hard to learn who she is, the first time she encounters her father, Michael Andretti, she forces him to make a promise that they will stay out of each others lives (Marchetta, 1992, p69). However, through circumstance and need, the latter mainly on Josie’s part, they are forced back into each other’s lives and eventually end up having a pretty good relationship.
Dede not only has she done tons of interviews but there is a museum where she works that is full of detail event from the Mirabal sisters’ tragedy. She gives tours shares pictures and tell stories in memories of her sisters. Dede took the choice of reliving memories from the past. “In The Time of the Butterflies” when the reporter asked Dede “how does she do it? “how do you keep such tragedy from taking you under?” Dede was so optimistic with her answer stating “I start over, playing the happy moments in my head”. Although many may look at Dede with pity, in her eyes she knows she was gifted. To have shared memories with these brave women, not only was she gifted for being their friend but to know that she is a part of
After years of abandonment, an absent man presumed to be Martin Guerre appeared in front of a woman who longed for a strong love and different husband. An “obstinate and honorable” woman could no...
A breathtaking saga of a young girl’s tragic memories of her childhood. As with Ellen, Gibbons’ parents both died before she was twelve-years-old, forming the family. basis of the plot and themes of this novel. The fond memories she possessed of her mother and the harsh ones of her father are reflected in the thoughts and actions of Ellen. The simplistic and humble attitude that both Gibbons and Ellen epitomizes in the novel is portrayed through diction and dialogue.
As a single parent, Michael takes on the roles of father and mother to his teenage son. His brother-in-law even refers to him as, “a non-traditional mother,” in, “S.O.Bs” (Day and Vallely). Michael is a non-traditional parent in that he displays the qualities of a traditional mother as well as a traditional father. He fulfills the expectations of traditional father in disciplining his son, George Michael. When Michael chooses to transfer his studious son to a new school in, “S.O.Bs,” he is oblivious to George Michael’s unhappiness (Day and Vallely). After discovering what he believes to be the truth regardi...
Marie-Laure’s life changed when at the age of six she went blind, causing her to become very dependent on the people around her. Her father tried to make her life as
Marie had just traveled from her hometown of Ville Rose, where discarding your child made you wicked, to the city of Port-Au-Prince, where children are commonly left on the street. Marie finds a child that she thinks could not be more beautiful, “I thought she was a gift from Heaven when I saw her on the dusty curb, wrapped in a small pink blanket, a few inches away from a sewer as open as a hungry child’s yawn” (79). Marie has suffered many miscarriages, so she takes this child as if it were her own, “I swayed her in my arms like she was and had always been mine” (82). Marie’s hope for a child has paid off, or so it seems. Later, it is revealed that the child is, in fact, dead, and Marie fabricated a story to sanction her hopes and distract her from the harsh reality of her life, “I knew I had to act with her because she was attracting flies and I was keeping her spirit from moving on… She smelled so bad that I couldn’t even bring myself to kiss her without choking on my breath” (85). Her life is thrown back into despair as her cheating husband accuses her of killing children for evil purposes and sends her to
Whoosh!A bed whizzed by, surrounded by about 6 medical personnel. “What’s going on?” I thought immediately with apprehension. I knew whatever was happening it was not ideal. Ensuring I was not in the way, I stood on my toes to see what demanded so much attention. To my astonishment, I saw a coin sized hot-pink little girl. She could not have been bigger than two quarters lying side by side.She was struggling! Even with all the procedures the doctors were executing to save her life, she was performing the most work.
Friar Lawrence felt an internal conflict within him – the conflict of self against self. He knew in his mind that it was wrong to help a teen run away with her lover, who happened to be a murderer. But he also felt himself reach out to them, as he had known them as his own children for a very long time. He knew what a desperate situation Juliet and Romeo were in, and knew that he could prevent their lives from being ruined. But the problem was that the only way to solve everything, was to take a ‘wrong path’, that everyone opposed. In the end, he ends up helping his fellow children. But by this decision, he affected the whole plot of the play, and caused it to turn greatly. This plan would have turned out marvelously, but he made a few mistakes.
On her thirteenth birthday, Francie starts to write in a journal. She begins by writing, "Today I am a woman". In just too short years, Francie grew, learned, and changed immensely. She is a completely different person than the one who existed two years earlier, both physically and mentally. Francie learned the serious and nearly devastating news that her father is a drunk, and she begins writing entries in her journal such as 'Jan 10: Papa sick today'. In her journal, Francie also wrote about her curiosity with sex. By this point in the book, Francie is no longer the girl that the reader first met, but she is now a young woman.
While living in her father’s house, Goldman became a victim of her father’s abuse, and of her mother’s lack of emotion. Her eldest sister, Helena, showed Goldman as much love as she possibly could but was still unable to fill the void.
Mrs. Reilly is Ignatius’ mother. She has arthritis of the elbow and shows a genuine interest in the well being of her child while on the same time feels a slight feeling of resentment of his overpowering each and every conversation as well as the trouble he finds himself in.
who wanted to enter her life, she is left alone after her father’s death. Her attitude