Based on the best seller by Zane, Addicted tells the story of a successful business woman, Zoe Reynard, who seems to be living a great life and has it all. She has a dream husband who she truly loves. She and her husband(Boris Kodjoe), Jason, even have a call-and-response catchphrase “Our love is forever. Always has been, always will be.” She also has two children, and a prosperous career helping artists market their personal brands. Her life appears to be perfect, but she is held down by her desires and temptations she cannot escape. She later pursues a secret life, where everything that is going well for her goes down hill. She risks it all to satisfy her own needs, taking her down a treacherous path. She watches her life go tumbling down …show more content…
It didn't have a immensely unique plot. Particularly similar to Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor that was released in 2013 if followed the plot of a woman betraying her husband when she no longer feels satisfied, sneaking out to live her double life while the husband is under the impression ething is fine, to later put hints together and save their wives from being beaten or killed by their mistress. Being that these movies were so similar is made it predictable. There were a few differences that actually made the story less believable than Temptation. The story blamed the reason she stepped out on her marriage on her sex addiction, but she was indeed attracted to both her lover on more than a sexual level. She also never stepped out on her marriage until countless years later, with her husband being her first and only lover until she cheated. What made her addiction come into play in her life after so many years? Another aspect that made the story less believable was the way she reacted when her husband told her he no longer wanted to be with her. Overall the movie reminded me of a less enjoyable version of
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
She‘s trapped by a man and is tired of being told what is right and wrong, as well as what she should and should not do. The women realizes that she is strong as everyone
She was seduced at an early age and then fell in love with a preacher, but was overcome by an exciting younger man. She experienced every form of lust and desire as well as loss. Somehow though all the hardship she was able to come out on the other side a more complete woman and ironically did so without any of these
her journey toward self realization. She is forbidden to marry because of a long held
Now the hero finds him or herself understanding of the world changing (“The Hero’s Journey”). As the sun sets in the sky, Martas mood changes considerably. She now reaches the levels in which the people aren’t so wealthy. These people are now hard workers well on their way to achieve their goals. “Now Marta no longer saw just groups of carefree people inside the apartments; at times there were even some businesses where the employees, in black or blue aprons, were sitting at desks in long rows. Several of them were young people as old as or older then she, and weary of the day by now, every once in a while they raised their eyes from their duties and from typewriters” (“The Falling Girl” 2). Her beauty and graces is fleeing. As she ages, more people are focused on the day to day work. For the very first time the writer gives us a true sense of what Marta is after, “They were obviously giving a large party, exactly the kind that Marta dreamed of ever since she was a child. Heaven help her if she missed it. Down there opportunity was waiting for her, fate, romance, the true inauguration of her life” (“The Falling Girl 3). The girl is in such a hurry to her goal she is not appreciating the journey. At this point in the journey, other girls begin to fall and Marta realizes she is not alone. This shows that in society many other girls are wasting their lives
During her teen years, she was abused and lonely. She gave birth to her first child when she was only sixteen years old. She was in her first marriage when she was only nineteen years old. After three children, two marriages, and a breakdown, she realizes that there is a lot more to life than her current circumstances.
...manic depressive state which leads her to her suicide. She no longer has a will to repress any untold secrets from the past or perhaps the past. Since she has strayed far from her Christian beliefs, she has given in to the evil that has worked to overcome her. She believes she is finally achieving her freedom when she is only confining herself to one single choice, death. In taking her own life, she for the last time falls into an extremely low mood, disregards anyone but herself, and disobeys the church.
Her father works out of town and does not seem to be involved in his daughters lives as much. Her older sister, who works at the school, is nothing but plain Jane. Connie’s mother, who did nothing nag at her, to Connie, her mother’s words were nothing but jealousy from the beauty she had once had. The only thing Connie seems to enjoy is going out with her best friend to the mall, at times even sneaking into a drive-in restaurant across the road. Connie has two sides to herself, a version her family sees and a version everyone else sees.
woman she once knew. Both women only see the figure they imagine to be as the setting shows us this, in the end making them believe there is freedom through perseverance but ends in only despair.
influence all her life and struggles to accept her true identity. Through the story you can
She lives in an imaginary world in her head where her actual life does not match the ideal life she is living. She believes her beauty and charm make her worthy of greater things. She wears knock-off jewelry, clothes, and goes to high end parties, but dresses and acts like she is wealthy. The bliss of her evening at these parties were not achieved by angst, and the reality of her appearance is much different than it seems. The party is a conquest because for the first time, her appearance matches the reality of her life. Her wealth and class are simply illusions, and other people are easily deceived. I liked this short story because it relates to people today being concerned with their appearance and social class instead of their character and being blessed with what they have. I live by a certain quote every day by John Wooden he once said, “ Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while you reputation is merely what others think you
Throughout the story there are several aspects of the Protagonist’s character that play a major role in the shaping of her future. During her childhood she often demonstrates a sense of fear when she is sent to her bedroom. “We were afraid of the inside, the room were we slept (pg. 549).” She is intimidated by her personal space because she does not have control over it. Later, she gains control by adding lace to her side of the room; symbolically adding personality to herself and slipping into womanhood. When she felt uncomfortable she exercised her imagination, to psychologically regain control over the confusion in her life. Her subconscious effort to control confusing times were carried on to her later years as she was constantly put in difficult situations, which helped her to adjust quickly to change during adulthood. The dreams she created changed when she began to place emphasis on her appearance-that which she could control, other than past dreams of heroism that seemed so distant from reality. The Protagonist filled her childhood with much pride and maintained a consistent focused upon the activities that filled her childhood. She relished working at the side of her father, taking immense pride in every aspect of her assigned duties. She proclaimed, “I worked willingly under his eyes, and with a feeling of pride (pg. 551)” Once after her father introduced her to a feed sales man as “my new hired man (pg. 551),” the Protagonist was flooded with pride as she “turned away and raked furiously, red in the face with pleasure (pg. 551).” In her later years her pride helped her to assemble strong self-confidence she used in her years of growing. Passion and depth were characteristics that impacted her future as a woman. Her passion and depth was revealed early on in the story ...
she tries to change her life to make it better, that she wants her own happiness.
Instead of proclaiming her feelings out loud, she suppresses them. The result is a series of recordings, which describes her life, and the things she wishes she could change.
Drug addiction is a very big problem in today’s society. Many people have had their lives ruined due to drug addiction. The people that use the drugs don’t even realize that they have an addiction. They continue to use the drug not even realizing that their whole world is crashing down around them. Drug addicts normally lose their family and friends due to drug addiction.