“I’m proud of you,” said my uncle with his gleaming smile and warm eyes. These were the last words Katalina Kowalski heard from the man who influenced her life the most. Katalina remembers looking at him; he seemed distraught, pale, and distressed. She convinced herself that he was just ill. She recalls her father picking her up from her first varsity cheer game. His eyes were filled with tears and misery. The whole car ride to her house was filled with silence and despair. Walking in her house, it appeared everyone was trying to act as if everything was okay but, she knew something was wrong. Everyone was staring at her with sorrow and her heart began to beat rapidly. She began to sit down at the kitchen table and her mother said, "We need …show more content…
Everyone around her was depressed and she felt so empty because she knew she could not bring her uncle back. She tried to do everything she could do, but eventually gave up. The more she reckoned on what happened, the more despondent she became. She didn’t have the vitality or desire to push herself. She faced failure. The lack of success only made her depression worse. She had to force a smile and she was not her upbeat self anymore. She started making abominable decisions. She started going out every night instead of doing the work she needed to complete for school. She started receiving horrible grades. She could not figure out who she was without her uncle. She started getting into many arguments with her mom. This made their relationship weaker and weaker. She felt like everything was her fault and she could not see the positive in any situation. “Time heals all,” this saying twisted and turned in Katalina’s mind ultimately making her feel worse. Of course, because of how she felt, she did not believe it. She refused to listen to what people said, because no matter how hard she tried to feel better, she was never able to find light in her black
She sees her father old and suffering, his wife sent him out to get money through begging; and he rants on about how his daughters left him to basically rot and how they have not honored him nor do they show gratitude towards him for all that he has done for them (Chapter 21). She gives into her feelings of shame at leaving him to become the withered old man that he is and she takes him in believing that she must take care of him because no one else would; because it is his spirit and willpower burning inside of her. But soon she understands her mistake in letting her father back into he life. "[She] suddenly realized that [she] had come back to where [she] had started twenty years ago when [she] began [her] fight for freedom. But in [her] rebellious youth, [she] thought [she] could escape by running away. And now [she] realized that the shadow of the burden was always following [her], and [there she] stood face to face with it again (Chapter 21)." Though the many years apart had changed her, made her better, her father was still the same man. He still had the same thoughts and ways and that was not going to change even on his death bed; she had let herself back into contact with the tyrant that had ruled over her as a child, her life had made a complete
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
The mother is a selfish and stubborn woman. Raised a certain way and never falters from it. She neglects help, oppresses education and persuades people to be what she wants or she will cut them out of her life completely. Her own morals out-weight every other family member’s wants and choices. Her influence and discipline brought every member of the family’s future to serious-danger to care to her wants. She is everything a good mother isn’t and is blind with her own morals. Her stubbornness towards change and education caused the families state of desperation. The realization shown through the story is the family would be better off without a mother to anchor them down.
...self exaggerated stories. One thing she tells herself is that her mother was kidnapped by a lunatic. On another occasion a classmate asks where her mother is and she says that her mother is on a business trip in London. Their similarities help each other to grow and mature and eventually come to terms with their situations.
...ression and guilt self-blaming, suicidal attempt, including the effects of his mother’s emotional unavailability, his resentment that his mother loved his father and brother more.
At the age of nine, she became ambitious and even rebellious. She had a very strong view of the world. That she couldn't make something of herself and do things that she loves by being pretty. During this time, she developed something of a crush on her own brother. Making her feelings known to him embarrassed him and pushed Karen away, these feelings of inadequacy could of lead to her first episode of depression. Depression would invade the rest of her life.
To begin with, Mary was in a relationship with her boyfriend for three years. He was emotionally and physically abusive towards her for the better part of their relationship. When Mary finally left him, her life was not immediately perfect. She suffered from depression because she believed she had deserved the abuse and that her boyfriend
She instantly knew what she wanted to do with her life, but it was a matter of being able to make a livable financial income. She sincerely states, “I cleaned my friends’ houses till I could find a job, I rode buses, I didn’t have a car and it was really sad coming from a ‘safe haven’... to go from bouncing around to friends’ houses, sleeping at random people’s houses. It was horrible.” She was only eighteen years of age. She in a sense lost the support of most of her family and she was forced to learn quite a bit about taking responsibility for herself so early in her life.
Then her parents decided that they should get her into counselling and go to the doctor and take a depression form. And it turns out that she
It had been a cold, snowy day, just a few days after Thanksgiving. My grandmother became immensely ill and unable to care for herself. We knew she had health problems but her sudden turn for the worst was so unexpected and therefore we weren’t prepared for the decisions that had to be made and the guilt we would feel. Where would grandma live? Would she be taken care of? So many concerns floated around. A solution was finally found and one that was believed to be the best or so we thought.
Nancy was only four years old when her grandmother died. Her grandmother had a big lump on the lower right hand side of her back. The doctors removed it, but it was too late. The tumor had already spread throughout her body. Instead of having a lump on her back, she had a long stitched up incision there. She couldn’t move around; Nancy’s parents had to help her go to the bathroom and do all the simple things that she use to do all by herself. Nancy would ask her grandmother to get up to take her younger sister, Linh, and herself outside so they could play. She never got up. A couple of months later, an ambulance came by their house and took their grandmother away. That was the last time Nancy ever saw her alive. She was in the hospital for about a week and a half. Nancy’s parents never took them to see her. One day, Nancy saw her parents crying and she have never seen them cry before. They dropped Linh and her off at one of their friend’s house. Nancy got mad because she thought they were going shopping and didn’t take her with them.
Emma grew up in Birmingham, a fairly large town in Michigan. Where her father and her grandparents had lived. She grew up in a fun, always exciting, house where her older sisters always brought new surprises. The Lewrys were very happy in Michigan, but soon after Emma turned four her mom grew tired of the rainy, cloudy weather, and they started looking for a new place to live. They had California in mind, because they visited Disneyland so often, and they decided to look there. Emma’s parents bought a house, and the family moved out there as fast as they could. When Emma got there she started at CDC preschool and met a group of new friends. She loved the California life. Then, she went to Solana Vista for all of her four years. In second grade, her best friend moved away, which created a big shift in her life. She had only her one best friend and no others. She felt alone. Then halfway through the year she opened up to new friends and that’s when she was the most happy. She was also was working very hard, and it paid off. In third grade, the principal asked Emma to represent the Solana Vista in front of the California School Board. Emma received an award for being responsible and a good student and said a few words about how she worked hard to receive the award at the meeting. This motivated her to never give up because she now knew tha...
High school senior year came and Paisley was over welled. She already had a 2 year old son ,named Tyson. She knew she had to prove her mother wrong and graduate with honors. She studied day and night. Paisley graduated valedictorian. Nothing could impress her mother. Wanda was still upset because she had a child in school.
In a set of poems that she wrote, she started at the beginning of her battle saying “When I was born, you waited/ behind a pile of linen in the nursery,/ and when we were alone, you lay down/ on top of me, pressing/ the bile of desolation into every pore.” (From The Nursery), which tells us that her battle with depression started when she was a young child. She then goes on to say “And from that day on/ everything under the sun and moon/ made me sad -- even the yellow / wooden beads / that slid and spun / along a spindle on my crib.” telling us that from the first time she felt this great sadness and then on felt a constant sadness in her life. This is only the beginning though, she continues in this set of poems to describe her battle with depression as she got older and time went
Liz thought nothing of herself and that she was worthless she would look up to people and try to pull them down to her level by bullying, doing drugs, and other wrong decisions that would not help her, just making things worse. Liz didn’t care though and every bad decision that she made, every kid she bullied came back and bit her with the depression and sadness she had, and it just kept building up and she could not handle it anymore, the only way out was to not be in the world anymore. She thought of death as escape but she didn’t realize that was a permanent solution to just temporary problems in high school. Overall in the book Falling Into Place, Amy Zhang uses characterization to establish the theme of depression is a huge part of teenagers lives and how it can affect the people around you that love you, not just yourself when you decide to make the decision to end it