Every year in the U.S. 864,950 people attempt suicide. In the book A Man Called Ove, Ove is feeling a little depressed. In the book Ove does not understand the younger generations. He is very judgmental and very unforgiving. It is a journey through the book on how Ove comes to understand the younger generations, and may just break at any point. In my paper I will be visualizing, and connecting, and evaluating.
The thought about committing suicide makes me wonder why someone would want to do that? And how do you not like people so much that you get frustrated so much that you yell and argue with everyone? Ove is very narrow-minded and does not have a tendency to change. After Oves wife dies he is very depressed after he is let go from his job. He has nothing to keep him busy during the day and all that he can think of
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wants to be reconnected with his wife, so he turns to suicide. Hanging yourself and trying to die from exost must be very painful. I can see the fear in his eyes when he puts his rope around his neck, the room must have been filled with musty air from the fear that he is feeling. I can hear the rope snap after he is too heavy for the thin rope; I can hear the thud of him falling onto the floor, as he does not succeed in killing himself. Not only did he try to kill himself once but also he attempted it a second time. I can see him put the tube from the exost into the window. I can hear him turning on the car and shutting the garage and car door. I can see the car filling with smoke as he is struggling to breath. And then all of a sudden I hear a pounding on the door and taking the neighbors to the hospital . It is clear that Ove is annoyed form the banging on the door: “That will do! He roars and opens the door of the Saab so abruptly that the plastic tube is dislodged from between the window and the molding and falls onto the concrete floor” (Backman 104). Sometimes suicide does not fix your problems, it may just complicate them and make it harder for you to live the life that you may want to be living. There are a lot of things that you can connect to in the book A Man Called Ove.
I can relate to Ove when he gets frustrated about people that are disrespecting his property and not being apologetic about scratching his house; “ not at all unlike the type of sound created by a big oaf backing up a Japanese car hooked up to a trailer and scraping it against the exterior wall of Ove’s house” (Backman 13). I can relate because sometimes people take your things, but when you get them back they may be missing a part or broken and they just do not understand what they did. People can be as stubborn as a horse in not apologizing for something that they did . I can also relate to Ove because animals that keep barking and are just annoying you may want to yell at them. Ove makes the decision to try to scare the cat away but it does not work. I can relate because sometimes you get an animal that does not belong to you and they do not get that they need to leave. Ove is a person that can be connected to on many different levels, you just need to find a way to get past the Ove that is mean and turn it into someone that is just annoyed that needs to be left
alone. In the story A Man Called Ove I like how the author made the book easy to laugh at and enjoy even though it has some parts to it that can be very serious. Like the part when Ove was looking for a computer; “The assistant stops and seems to be looking for a word that falls within the bounds of comprehensions of the man facing him. Then he clears his throat again and says: … a laptop? Ove shakes his head wildly and leans menacingly over the counter. “No, I don’t want a ‘laptop.’ I want a computer.” (Backman 2). Ove is also a kind and loving human, a great loving husband, and tests everything better than the U.S. Government . Especially when he finds a girl that he likes. One thing that I did not like is how they put suicide into this book. To me it ruins the funniness of some of the moments when the book is at its prime. Over the entire book it has multiple good and bad things in it that will be different to everyone that reads it, this is just my opinion though. After all Ove is a man that can be connected to, evaluated, and you can visualize the things that he is doing. In my opinion 864,950 people is to many people that commit suicide a year. I would rather not see Ove be one of those people. In all Ove is on a journey that he wants to get out of but is not able to at this point.
Even though juveniles brains’ aren't developed at the age they committed the crime, they should be able to differentiate between what is right and what is wrong. However, four justices strongly agree, mandatory sentences reflected the will of America society that heinous crimes committed by juveniles should always be punished. The majority of Supreme Court justices who argued to abolish mandatory life in prison for juveniles. Researchers around the world agree with this statement because juveniles don't have a fully developed brain or have rough homes. Many juveniles have don't first degree misers and second degree murders. I stand against abolishing mandatory life in prison. In my opinion Juveniles, depending on the the crime should be sentenced
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Andre Waters was born on March 10th, 1962. Later on after graduating college Andre was a NFL player for the Philadelphia Eagles where he played as a safety. After playing in the NFL for multiple years, Water retired and began coaching college players. At the age of 44 Waters committed suicide. On November 20th 2006, Waters had died of a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He had donated his brain to science so they could continue doing research. While examining his brain doctors had diagnosed him with CTE. “...The condition of Waters' brain tissue was
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A Study of Suicide: An overview of the famous work by Emile Durkheim, Ashley Crossman, 2009, http://sociology.about.com/od/Works/a/Suicide.htm, 25/12/2013
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