The story Delirium by Lauren Oliver is a dystopian story that does a spectacular job at capturing key features found in almost any dystopian literature; It takes place in Portland, Maine, with the main character Lena Haloway, living with her Aunt and Uncle. The government has outlawed love; so when citizens turn 18 they are forced to get a “Cure” that rids them of all emotions, including the ability to love. Lena is a 17 year old who was a rule follower her whole life. Up until the day, her best friend Hana learned about secret parties at which people partake in illicit activities. They get into an argument about them and how they aren't safe. Eventually Lena gives in and goes to one of these parties. Here she remembers Alex and they begin …show more content…
One important thing that she mentioned to him is the pendant her mom used to wear. This led Alex to believe that her mom is still alive, in the “Crypts” or jail. Using his clearance to get into the building, they went in to find her mom. It was found that she had been alive the whole time, stuck in harsh conditions for seven years, until recently, she had escaped. Finding this out made Lena question everything anyone has ever told her. She gets so upset they make a plan to run away. Getting ready to escape, the police found them. They catch Lena, however Alex gets away. When she wakes up, she is handcuffed to her bed. Her best friend Hana comes over worried; but through a coded message, Lena communicates with Hana to get a note to Alex. That evening, Alex arrives to save her. Through a series of events, Lena escapes her bed and the house, but not quietly. The police know she's escaped. They drove to the border in pursuit of the police. When they get there, they attempt to climb over and become free. Under a bombardment of shooting, Lena makes it over the fence. Even in all the chaos she turns back to look for Alex, where she sees him not over the fence, with his white shirt,
She comes in at Artíme and completely destroys everything. While that is happening, the pirates come into Quill and kidnap Aaron, who they think is Alex because they look alike. The reason they try and kidnap Alex is because he stole all of their trapped animals and took one of their slaves. This really made Alex mad even though Aaron is a really bad person. He would not wish it upon anyone to be kidnapped.
That sends her off on a wild goose chase to find out who killed her, and many other smaller conflicts result around this. Another conflict is when Alexi is sent back to Moscow by her father because that was one of Grace’s friend who helped her discover and find the clues leading up to Grace finding out the person who killed her mother.
In the beginning of the story Clinton is suspected as the person who has commit the crime. He is faced with problems of others. He is questioned by both the police and his family, of where was he when Alex was attacked. But Clinton can’t say where he was because he threw a rock at the Crusan’s house and hurt his sisters best friend. He also called his father when his mother hates when Clinton would do that.
In the movie, Dream House, Daniel Craig portrays a New York editor named Will Atenton that recently quit his job to move to the suburbs and dedicate more time with his wife, Libby, and his two daughters. One night, Will began to search for what was going on when his family was frightened by someone peering through the window. In doing so, he finds a satanic cult of teenagers in his basement that reveal that a family man named Peter Ward committed heinous murders in that house. Will began to worry and found out the Peter Ward recently got released after five years from Greenhaven Psychiatric Hospital from going through his attic. The neighbor from across the street refused to give Will any information after he asked her for more. Will decides to go to Greenhaven to get information about Peter Ward and he discloses that he, Will Atenton, is actually Peter Ward.
...hemes fed their families, Alexandra’s hope was renewed continually by the promise of Emil’s future. When he dies, her dreams for his future are shattered, but her own are then able to be seen more clearly, without the filter of another person to care for. Ivar allows her to be herself to some extent, and more importantly can talk to her about things that only they can understand, about the land and the earth and the forces that move within it. Finally, Carl comes to his childhood friend’s rescue and reminds her that there is an entire world outside of Nebraska, and in that world she doesn’t always have to be the only one who truly cares. Through all of these men’s influences, Alexandra is in turn optimistic, hopeful, broken, and renewed. Without these changes within her self, she would never come to know exactly who and what she is– a farmer, a pioneer, and a woman.
Throughout She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb emphasizes the importance of self-discovery to one's life. Dolores has several epiphanies throughout the course of the novel, including her realization that all of her failed relationships are not solely her fault. She learns she is worth loving and is capable of surviving on her own. With each discovery about herself, Dolores learns to love herself a little more and blame herself a little less.
However, Alex is eventually caught and is sent to jail. After killing a fellow cellmate Alex is
Alex excelled at “transforming herself into the person she needed to be before she left the house,” (Picoult 5) incidentally pushing her daughter out of her tight circle of importance. Alex then becomes stuck in the middle of maintaining her judicial status and raising Josie. For the majority of the time before the shooting, Alex remains nearly entirely focused on her career in the hopes that her daughter can and will take care of herself, thus creating an obsession for working and giving little time for anything
She believes that at the age of three years old, she dropped the pistol that was on the floor in the bedroom, capable of shooting her mother. That was the whole point of traveling to Timburon as she did, to find the truth, but she didn’t. She did however, meet three beautiful ladies who had once known her mother from the way she styled her hair, to the color of socks she puts on her feet. Lily’s mother had come back to the Pink house to live with August, June, and May a few months before she was killed. She left her daughter and husband. The time she came back to get her stuff, and her daughter, was the time she was deployed into heaven, gone forever. Lily was a rock when she heard the news that her mother had left her with a man who abused her☺. From the time she left the peach farm at home, to the time T-Ray came knocking on the door of the pink house, Lily had gone back and forth with how much she loved her mother and how much her mother loved her. One day she would find out that her mother left her with T-Ray, and the next day she would find a picture of the two when she was an infant, noses touching. Did her mother love her? Yes! Did she love her mother? Yes! When her mother left her, she was in a state of depression. She needed to get away from the world. Deborah did, however, come back for her daughter. Sadly, Lily didn’t completely understand her rasoning. It took a long time to accept the fact that her mother left her and even longer to forgive her and realize that she really did love her
“The Sweet Hereafter” portrays the grief stricken citizens of a remote Canadian town traumatized by a terrible accident, and the impact of an ambulance-chasing lawyer who is attempting to deal with the grief in his own life. The film also depicts the grieving subjects susceptibility to convert grief and guilt into both blame and monetary gain and the transformation this small community faces after such a devastating event.
At the bank where Alex’s uncle's office had been, an undercover MI6 agent greeted him and said the door was locked. When she left the room to take a phone call, Alex crawled out a
The couple spent the summer together and developed the meaning of true love. One evening, Noah takes Allie, to an old farmhouse, tells her his dream of buying and restoring it one day, she tells him she wants to be a part of that dream, she wants the house white, have blue shutters, a wrap-around porch, and wants a room that overlooks the creek so she can paint. With all the excitement the two lost track of time and when she returned home she found out her parents called the police; her parents forbid her to ever see Noah again. Allies parents did not approve of the social differences in the teens upbringing. Allie’s mother moved her away to New York, for her to forget Noah, and interact with people of her social lifestyle at college.
After sixteen years of trials and tribulations, Alexandra’s efforts have paid off. She and her family are now wealthy and easily living off the land. When life seems to go her way, Alexandra’s brother, Emil, seeks a forbidden love with Marie Shabata. This love proves fatal to both Marie and Emil when her husband, Frank Shabata, kills them both from blind fury, leaving Alexandra alone. Recovering from her sorrow, she becomes exhausted with the life she has lived and tries to get Frank pardoned; upon her return home, her long-lost love, Carl Linstrum, is waiting for her to comfort her in her time of loss.
”Yes, it’s only Reservation Blues but I like it:” On the Connection between Christian and Native Religions
Her idea to get this for them is by buying a house for them in a safer neighborhood. As the inheritor of all the money, she is met with pressure from her kids who want to do all different kinds of things with the money. But she ultimately decides to purchase the house with a portion of the money. She hopes this purchase will help give her kids and their kids a better future away from the danger and poverty in their current housing. When Karl Lidner comes to try to convince the Youngers to sell the house she just bought, Lena holds strong and refuses to resell the house.