The book Every Last Word written by Tamara Ireland Stone is about a 16 year old girl, named Samantha McAllister. In the story Sam is part of the “crazy eights” a popular group of girls but sometimes they drive her well crazy. However, Sam is not like them she has purely obsessive OCD which tries to take over her thoughts. She can never stop thinking. In the story Sam is part of the “crazy eights” a popular group of girls but sometimes they drive her crazy. One day Sam meets a girl named Caroline Madsen. Caroline shows her the poets corner-a secret room with a group of friends- and it changes Sam’s life forever. Sam starts to obsess about poetry. She writes poetry in her room, while she’s swimming, in poets corner. Poetry helps her calm down
The story of Lysandra in Lysandra’s Poem by Budge Wilson showcases a conflict between two girls, Elaine and Lysandra. After Elaine wins the Gr.7 Poetry contest, it leaves Lysandra stays bitter about the lost from high school to adulthood. From Elaine’s actions, Lysandra’s revenge is actually justified. During their childhoods, It is quite evident that Elaine knew that Lysandra was overly attached to literature as she states that “Like her father, she haunted the library.” (127). Knowing how important literature and poetry is to Lysandra, Elaine already knew how important something simple like a poetry contest would mean to Lysandra. Lysandra felt confident about the contest cause she studied poetry at a young age and
This book is about a twelve-year-old boy named Nick Hall. Nick Hall loves to play soccer, but he can only play if he reads his dad’s dictionary which he thinks is boring. Nick Hall has a best friend Coby Lee. Coby and Nick have been friends almost their whole life, they also have always been on the same soccer team accept this year. Nick also takes dance clubs with the girl he likes named April who also goes to his school. So far Nick’s life is going well, The only bad thing in Nick’s life is that he gets bullied by these twins named Dean and Don, but they soon get expelled from school so he doesn’t have to see them every day now. So now Nick’s is going even better until one day Nick’s parents announce that they’re getting a divorce because
The novel Girl Last Seen was written by Nina Laurin. The story within the novel takes place in a small town right outside of Seattle, Washington over the span of about a month. Drugs are easily accessible and violence is common in this little town. The main character is Ella Santos. However, at one point in her life, she changed her name to Lainey Moreno. She is a young African American woman in her mid 20s. The only way that she is able to get through life is the pills that she takes. At the beginning of the novel, she lived with her coworker in an old, rundown apartment. Her life has been a series of roller coasters. She was kidnapped when she was a young teenager. When she was found, she was put through a series of homes and never had any
I have chosen to write about Virginia Woolf, a British novelist who wrote A Room of One’s Own, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, to name a few of her pieces of work. Virginia Woolf was my first introduction to feminist type books. I chose Woolf because she is a fantastic writer and one of my favorites as well. Her unique style of writing, which came to be known as stream-of-consciousness, was influenced by the symptoms she experienced through her bipolar disorder. Many people have heard the word "bipolar," but do not realize its full implications. People who know someone with this disorder might understand their irregular behavior as a character flaw, not realizing that people with bipolar mental illness do not have control over their moods. Virginia Woolf’s illness was not understood in her lifetime. She committed suicide in 1941.
The writer states she is able to see people out on the lawn, even though she has been told there is no one there. She is also paranoid that John and Jennie will find her papers and states she is sure she found them snooping in her things. At one point, she writes she can smell the wallpaper, this screams psychosis. She is convinced that the wallpaper is shaking and that there is a lady who loves behind the paper and when this woman creeps around it causes the shaking. She describes her inability to sleep at night so that her caregivers are glad when she is able to get rest. They even go so far as to make her rest for an hour after her
...smile”; however, after listening to the introduction about every pen from the girl, the boy’s voice “filling with fear”. This marked contrast indicates the speaker’s impatience, and the audience can feel the development of the story clearly. If the attitudes of the speaker remained the same throughout the poem, it will create a lack of movement so that the audience cannot relate to the speaker.
The story take a place in a secluded mansion the family rented during the renovation of their home, but served as a place for her to undergo her treatment with the least stimulation possible, from her nervous breakdown. Doctors had diagnosed her with nervous depression and told her she “was forbidden to work, “from anything that could cause her excitement. For the most part her husband controlled her every move during her depression. She not only was prohibited to write, an outlet to express herself, from the inability to openly speak with her husband but is also place in a room that discomfort her. As the story continues we see her mental-health worsen although her appearance showed improvement, when she imagines a woman in the pattern of the wallpaper of her room. The narrator becomes obsessive and spends most her time tired and staring at the wallpaper. Until a few day before they leave that home she goes insane and begins to tear the wallpaper which frightens her husband but allows the character to feel
“Girl,”written by Jamaica Kincaid, is a prose poem about the relationship between a mother and daughter. In reality, it reflects the actual living background in Kincaid's time by listing a series of important sentences; as read, it shows that her mother disciplined her for a certain lifestyle; moreover, now she wants the same living for her daughter. In this poem, the setting, tone, and characters engage and work together to create an acute description of a day-to-day conversation between mother and daughter.
This environment serves not as an inspiration for mental health but as an element of repression. The locked door and barred windows serve to physically restrain her: “the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.” The narrator is affected not only by the physical restraints but also by being exposed to the room’s yellow wallpaper is dreadful and fosters only negative creativity. “It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide – plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.”
Anne Sexton, a poet who discovered her “poetic voice” as an adult, made works of poetry that focused on personal issues or works made specific to issues of women. Her poem “Young” portrays her work of personal issues. In this poem, she talks about how hard her life was when she was young. Sexton explains all the troubles in her life that can relate to most girls’ lives today in her poem. Some of these troubles include her parents being split up, being a lonely kid and other things that some girls have to deal with. Anne Sexton uses connotation, attitude and shift in the poem “Young” in order to illustrate the theme of suffering depression.
The third decade of the twentieth century brought on more explicit writers than ever before, but none were as expressive as Anne Sexton. Her style of writing, her works, the image that she created, and the crazy life that she led are all prime examples of this. Known as one of the most “confessional” poets of her time, Anne Sexton was also one of the most criticized. She was known to use images of incest, adultery, and madness to reveal the depths of her deeply troubled life, which often brought on much controversy. Despite this, Anne went on to win many awards and go down as one of the best poets of all time.
In this book the narrator and main character is Laurel. She is 15 and she is a freshman in high school. And she is fresh in grief, because her older sister who loved excitement and being herself that just died recently in April. Her mom divorced her dad, and went to chase her dreams of becoming an actress in California.
Three Little Words is based on a true story by a girl named Ashley Rhodes-Courter. This book talks about Ashley who went to many different foster homes and wasn’t allowed to live with her birth mother. She was a happy until she was taken away from her mother and put into a foster home. It began when Ashley, her mom, Dusty and her brother Luke were on their way to Florida until they got pulled over by the cops. The cops took Dusty away for not having license plate. A few days later they took Luke and Ashley away from their mother and put them into a foster care. Luke and Ashley didn’t stay in one home for a long time. One foster home really made a bad affect in Ashley and Luke’s life, the Moss family. They abused the two siblings and beat them every day. Ashley never believed in having a perfect place to live. The theme of the book is love, family, life and home. Love because nobody ever said they loved Ashley, family because nobody was ever there to say they cared about her, life because she needs to move to happy healthy family and home to make her feel comfortable. I really enjoyed this book because it made me realize that I have my family and some people do not have anyone..
She didn’t want to talk for five years straight because she thought her voice would hurt people. She was scared that if she talked she would hurt someone else. During her silence she started to write poetry. She expressed all her feelings in paper and through poetry. Her poetry was very good and deep that people started licking it and buying it.
Sylvia Plath wrote a book called "The Bell Jar." The character in this book, Esther Greenwood, is a talented, smart, brave and daring young woman who is suffering from a mental illness. Her insane mind is not letting her live a normal life. She struggles and eventually decides to end her life. After an attempt of suicide, Esther ends up in a mental institution. She was a gifted writer but when her illness started to take over her mind, she could not write, read or sleep anymore: "I hadn't slept for seven nights" (The Bell Jar, p.