Most individuals are unaware that verbal violence is more prevalent (61.2%) than physical violence (54.6%) in cases of PTSD levels exceeding 14 points. In the novel The First Stone, verbal abuse is seen throughout Reef’s childhood, transitioning to the present. Having abusive grandparents and being in a foster home made it very difficult for Reef to begin with a happy childhood. Reef’s abusive childhood took a toll on his overall self-control, such as not being able to hold back, cursing at others or making careless choices. This carried onto the present when he was in high school and made him hopeless of having a promising future. Reef's nostalgic thoughts of his abusive past led him to create a huge disaster for himself, resulting in his arrest. Don Aker’s The First Stone emphasizes how abuse is …show more content…
Throughout Reef’s childhood, he experienced so much verbal abuse, which over time took a toll on his mental health, leading to reckless choices. To begin, when Reef was a child, he lost both his parents and was forced to live with his grandparents. Reef’s grandpa was a violent alcoholic who abused him, while his grandmother was the only loving person in his life. In the novel, when the two truck owners were screaming at Reef, it reminded him of how his grandpa would drunkenly call his name and say "good-fer-nothin' sonuvabitch bastard". This shows how verbal abuse contributes to Reef’s overall mental health, since he had to deal with a grandpa who always insulted him. His grandpa cursing at Reef and saying that he is good for nothing would lead him to make reckless choices to prove that he is
Abuse is a subject that should be considered important. There are about 960,000 abuse incidents reported annually. 85% of them are reported by women. The resting 15% are reported by men. In Fried Green Tomatoes, abuse is a recurring part of the book, Fannie Flagg does an admirable job in describing in detail the abuse incidents that happen throughout the book. Ruth is a character that receives abuse from her husband, she believes she deserves everything he does to her, even push her down the stairs. She finally takes the decision to escape from the abusive relationship she is in when her near death mother advices her to. Along the way characters develop some effects caused by abuse. People who suffer from abuse may develop fear, low self-esteem, or strength.
As Coral is struggling with her grief over her deceased son from the Vietnam war, Gow represents Coral’s longing for her son through the foreshadowing of, “That boy! In that blue light the shadows on his face and neck were like bruises. He looked so sick yet so wonderful.” This demonstrates her vision of Tom substituting her son through her soliloquy. Coral’s relationship between her husband, Roy, is very strained. Gow employs this through the patronising tone of Roy towards Coral, as he “thought he [I] told you to wait in the car” as it shows the responder’s that Roy is in control of their relationship. Coral’s strained relationship is further connoted throughout the play, Gow uses a simile to what Roy thinks of Coral, that she is “going to behave like a ghost” further enhances the disconnection of Coral with Roy and the world. Through the allegorical mise en abyme, “The Stranger on the Shore”, Tom has shown Coral the realisation of her faked American accent, “I’m walking, I’m walking” to her normal self, as she is finally “walking” away from her son’s death, which brings Gow’s character Coral to her transformation of a new self and more profound knowledge. In the scene where Coral is holding the shells, it symbolises the vulnerability of Roy. Gow has illustrated this when he “leans towards them and buries his face in the
...He is still anchored to his past and transmits the message that one makes their own choices and should be satisfied with their lives. Moreover, the story shows that one should not be extremely rigid and refuse to change their beliefs and that people should be willing to adapt to new customs in order to prevent isolation. Lastly, reader is able to understand that sacrifice is an important part of life and that nothing can be achieved without it. Boats are often used as symbols to represent a journey through life, and like a captain of a boat which is setting sail, the narrator feels that his journey is only just beginning and realizes that everyone is in charge of their own life. Despite the wind that can sometimes blow feverishly and the waves that may slow the journey, the boat should not change its course and is ultimately responsible for completing its voyage.
The author explains how Reef shares a close bond with his grandmother, Reef’s anger, and his overall development and growth as a character. Don Aker does this by showing Reef’s extraordinary development and growth as a person with the help of influential characters (Nan), overcoming his fears, anger, doubts all with the help of a stone. Nevertheless with the help of the stone guiding him, Reef was able to overcome the obstacles that lie ahead of him. Coincidence. The word is like a strange foreign language to us at times.
Antwone Fisher is a film based on real events about how a child’s upbringing can affect his life choices. Fisher is in the Navy and gets into fights with his fellow sailors. He was told to go to a mental hospital to see a “shrink” get a mental evaluation. Dr. Davenport helped unveil his anger issues through therapy sessions. This movie opens the floor for discussion on how nurture and nature can affect’s one current environment.
Based on a true story, this biographical drama centered around Antwone “Fish” Fisher. In the beginning of the story, he was a sailor prone to violent outbursts. On the verge of being kicked out of the Navy for repeated fighting, he is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing to open up, Dr. Davenport slyly slips his way into getting Antwone to talk. Antwone eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood with neglect and abuse. With the help of Dr. Davenport, he is able to face his past and strive for success to find the family he has never met. At the same time, he is able to turn his life around and change it dramatically. In the end, he is reunited with both his father’s side of the family and his mother who has abandoned him.
She stopped letting me sleep on the bottom bunk; she began to tease me about my fears.” (Evans 46). As 9 years old child, Allison is annoyed of Tara because she’s being tedious. Allison’s act might be seen as siding with her grandmother, and this directly explains that Tara went through the suffering alone, without anyone supporting her. This might be the reason why in the end, Tara decided to jumped off the tree, because she felt tortured and pressured badly by everyone surround her, and no one ever pay attention to her. Her best friend who she had always spent time with, giving her back to her, and stressed her to the point that she dare to jump. Somehow, we encounter these kind of situations in real life, and Evans are trying to make readers realize such tragedy really did happened in our surroundings. Frustration due to racial discrimination actually happens commonly. Those kinds of mistreatment that one’s receiving due to differences in race or culture indirectly affect his or her mentality and their character development. Evans wants the readers realize that such offensive behavior we frequently do – whether it is intentional or not intentional – affect other person’s psychological state. Readers ought to be aware of any shape of discrimination among our society and to select suitable actions when binding relationship with people from other
Justin Torres Novel We the Animals is a story about three brothers who lived a harassed childhood life. There parents are both young and have no permanent jobs to support their family. The narrator and his brothers are delinquents who are mostly outside, causing trouble, causing and getting involved in a lot of problems and barely attending school, which their parents allowed them to do. The narrator and his brothers were physically abused by their father, leading them to become more violent to one another and others, drinking alcohol and dropping out of school. Physical abuse is an abuse involving one person’s intention to cause feelings of pain, injury and other physical suffering and bodily harm to the victim. Children are more sensitive to physical abuse, they show symptoms of physical abuse in short run and more effects in the long run. Children who sustain physical abuse grow up with severely damaged of sense of self and inability. The narrator and his brothers were physically abused by their father and showed long run symptoms of Antisocial behaviors, drinking problems and most importantly they becoming more violent themselves. Many psychological and sociological studies such as “Childhood history of abuse and child abuse potential: role of parent’s gender and timing of childhood abuse” and “school factors as moderators of the relationship between physical child abuse and pathways of antisocial behavior can be used to prove the argument that children who sustain physical abuse grow up with criminal and antisocial behaviors.
This story shares the extreme abusive behaviors, and how easy it is for domestic violence to be hidden. This book is an example of many individuals who are physically abused every day. This story also reveals the horrible aspects of their lives and gives a voice to those who struggle domestic abuse. Even though Pelzer got away from his mother, in the end he was still mentally affected from his mother’s violence. Pelzer’s mother was someone who showed mental problems because no person who’s mentally right would physically abuse their child. In the end, Pelzer was lucky to overcome his abusive life, and share the untold stories from child
Antwone Fisher was an individual that endured so many things. He faced a lot of challenges that may have seemed impossible to recover from. This story was an example of the many things that some children may experience. Antwone was not raised in an upper crust home. He did not grow up in a home in which his mother and father was present. Instead of having positive role models, he had to live with individuals that were abusive to him. When observing Antwone’s personality, one may refer to two different theorists such as Bandura and Rogers.
Psychological maltreatment is also often referred to interchangeably as emotional or mental abuse. This refers to any form of maltreatment that can be categorized as an individual being subjected to the activities of another individual that frequently result in any form of mental trauma of the victim. Psychological maltreatment can be seen as one of the most serious and slightly overlooked problems in modern society (Lesson & Nixon, 2010). In general, psychological maltreatment is considered any kind of abuse that is emotional opposed to physical in nature. Nevertheless, there is much controversy regarding the true definition and consequences of psychological maltreatment. As of now, psychological maltreatment is one of the most difficult forms of maltreatment to detect and
Exposure to violence in the first years of life brings about helplessness and terror which can be attributed to the lack of protection received by the parent. The child can no longer trust their parent as a protector (Lieberman 2007). This lack of trust early in life can bring about serious problems later in life, as there is no resolution to the first psychosocial crisis, trust vs. mistrust. For these children exposed to domestic violence, the imaginary monsters that children perceive are not only symbolic representations or a dream. The monsters that children who witness domestic violence have to deal with carry the reflection of their parents. Children who witness domestic violence face a dilemma because the children’s parents are at their most frightening exactly when the child needs them the most. The security of the child is shatter...
... exposed to abusive environments show delays or restrictions in their physical growth as well as in their mental development (Smith, 1975).
Domestic abuse and child abuse have widespread social and emotional costs. Family violence affects all segments of the family. The impact of violence on childrens' lives appears to be far more substantial than the impact on adults lives(Family, Pg. 1). In most cases of family violence the family has conformed to a pattern in which the line of family violence started generations ago. This pattern must be broken before more children growup and live in a family that resorts to violence. But there are also children who live in loving families who do not resort to violence and as these children mature they start resorting to violence to help solve and deal with their problems. Studies show that physical punishment could cause aggression in children, but other studies show that even abusive parental violence does not always lead to an increase in children's aggression. Only by recognizing and addressing the multifactorial roots of violence in our society can we move closer to living in peace.
When the topic of abuse comes up, many different forms of abuse pop into individuals heads. Whether its Physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse or even drug abuse, the list just keeps going. Now take all those different forms abuse and imagine them happening in a family. A father physically abusing his children, a mother verbally berating her daughter about her body image, a child growing up in fear. According to the research by David Wolfe in the Journal of Consulting and clinical Psychology, that the number of children that have suffered a physical injury due to physical abuse is between 1.4 and 1.9 million annually. With such a high number of physical abuse happening to children, one can imagine how high the number of all the