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In the novel Silver Water, by Amy Bloom, the narrator Violet shows us the difficulties not just herself, but her entire family faces with the burden of their youngest, Rose. Rose suffers from a type of mental illness that is not specified, but as we can tell has serious repercussions. The whole family cares and works the best they can to help Rose make it through life, but sometimes it’s just not that easy of a thing to do. Throughout the story, Violet the sister, takes care and loves Rose as much as she possibly can but in some ways it can sort of be a burden. In the novel Silver Water, the narrator exposes the effects a mental illness can have on a family. One important scene in the novel is when the entire family has gone together …show more content…
to see a therapist to try and help Rose. His name is Dr. Walker, and needless to say, the family didn’t quite take him seriously. They did not appreciate how he spoke of rose as if she wasn’t even there. “Mr. Walker read Rose's file in front of us and then watched in alarm as Rose began crooning, beautifully, and slowly massaging her breast. My mother and I laughed, and even my father started to smile.” (Bloom, 1). The quote demonstrates how a family will stick together through thick and thin. For instance when Violet was asked about Rose rather rudely, the entire family stood up for rose and didn’t appreciate Dr. Walker’s way of speaking about her. The scene itself shows how just one person can affect so many others in a room. One other very important scene to the story is when Rose has a very serious breakdown in the kitchen. Violet and her father were outside gardening and Rose and her mother had just walked inside to start to dinner. Violet followed in to get a glass of water not long after, but when she arrived all that she see was rose yelling and throwing her head against the kitchen floor as hard as she could. “I threw myself onto the kitchen floor, becoming the spot that Rose was smacking her head against.” (p.4). I think the scene shows all the sacrifices a loved one is willing to make if it's you who is suffering. A person's family are the ones they are closest to, violet had to make a number of sacrifices for Rose but at the same time she knew they were all for the better. It’s pretty much a natural instinct to want to help family if they are hurt, upset, or something isn’t right. Making those sacrifices are what makes you a better person, and in the end that’s all anyone really wants. In the middle of the night violet is awaken by the cool night and decides why not check on her little sister, Rose.
When she noticed Rose wasn’t in her bed she immediately began to panick. She ran outside and into the woods as fast as she could yelling out Rose’s name at the top of her lungs. She found Rose laying in the grass staring up at the sky, “Closing time, she whispered, I believe that’s what she said. I sat with her, uncovering the bottle of white pills by her hand, and watched the stars.” (p.5). It’s truly a wonder of what could have been going through Rose’s mind at this particular point in time. Clearly she wasn’t right because she didn’t think of how badly she was going to hurt her loved ones. Maybe Rose felt as she was a burden, perhaps she felt that she was tired of always being an accident waiting to happen and that doing this was just going to fix it all. Suicide victims, nine times out of ten are never right in their mind to begin with, at least at that moment they most positively aren’t. It’s insane to think that a person could believe that by taking their own life can make others that much easier, but unfortunately it happens every day. Imagine the emotions that were flowing through Violet and her parents because of Rose, sure maybe it was tough living a life with her in it, but It’s a guarantee that it didn’t get easier without
her. Violet, the narrator, shows so many ways in which just one person can affect other lives so seriously. She exposed Rose and her life so much that it gives a sense of what it could truly be like to live in her shoes. The beginning of the story at the Dr.’s office, ensured a fact that a family will work together and stick with each other to help the outcome. The next scene in the kitchen is one that show’s the sacrifice’s not just one person but everyone has to make for Rose and her illness. The last scene when Rose took her own life, exposed us to the real feeling that a person's life is something to be cherished, no matter what illness, shape and size, or color. Mental illness is a very serious thing, and no one really knows what it’s like to experience it, unless you've been their first hand as Violet was.
Dealing with mental illness is hard, but even harder when you are the one caring for a loved one with a mental illness, making you feel as though you have been condemned to a lifetime of servitude. Bebe Moore Campbell usage of slavery allusions throughout the novel 72 Hour Hold explains just how taking care of a family member with a mental illness can feel like being enslaved to their illness. Slavery allusions are used throughout the novel to describe a mother’s, Keri, struggle of taking care of her bipolar daughter, Trina, while also insinuating that she feels as if her daughter’s illness enslaved her to her own daughter. With the usage of slavery allusions author Bebe Moore Campbell creates a new reality, one in which mental illness does
An example of a real life situation that constitutes this idea is one mother’s recount of her son’s illness, “Her son would no longer come out of his trailer home to get food to make a meal. So, she became a delivery service. She brought food to the trailer, left it outside and hoped her son would open the door and take the food”(“Impact of Mental Illness on Families”). In this example, a mother describes when the situation with her son became so severe that he would no longer leave his house even for necessities. To the point of his mother becoming his so called “slave” and delivering groceries to his house. Even though he would not acknowledge her due to the amount of fear his illness created. Through this instance in which a mother becomes a delivery service to her son’s illness shows this slave like impression on
The main psychological impacts were self-stigma, increased stress, and depression. Self-stigma occurs when the family members except mental illness stereotypes to be true. When self-stigma occurs caregivers tend to feel embarrassed about the person’s mental illness, feel as though they are looked down on because a family member has a mental illness, and feel the need to be hide it in order to have people continue to treat the family the same (Girma,Dehning, Mueller, Tesfaye, Froeschl, Moller-Leimkuhler , 2014). In the movie the little sister Ellen and primary caregiver Gilbert are the most effected by the self-stigma. The most predominant ...
Throughout the film, we learn that each woman has setbacks within her household. One sister has a terrible drinking problem and ultimately loses her job due to excessive drinking and tardiness. The second sister has had several pregnancies that each result in miscarriages due to high stress. As a therapist, there are several different elements to review.
By examining William’s personal struggle with the mental disorder of major depressive disorder the devastation this illness causes on the functioning of individuals is clearly highlighted. More importantly, the narrative reveals the importance of receiving help quickly after the onset of symptoms. The unfortunate truth of the illness of depression is that a large percentage of individuals wait many years to receive help and a small number do not even receive treatment for varying reasons. As a result of the individuals with depression who do not seek immediate help due to not understanding that what they are experiencing is an atypical response, the afraid of being stigmatized and learned helplessness, the mood disorder of depression acts like a silent
Everyone has to deal with struggles during their everyday life. Some people’s problems are more serious than others, and the way that people deal with their problems varies. Everybody has a coping mechanism, something they can use to make the struggle that they’re going through easier, but they’re usually different. Some people drink, some people smoke, some people pretend there is no problem. There are healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms, and people will vary the one they use depending on the problem they’re facing. In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the author and her family deal with their struggles in multiple different ways as time goes on. However, the severity of her situation means that the methods she uses to deal with it are very important. That’s why it’s bad that Jeanette’s and her family have such unhealthy coping mechanisms, such
Next, consider the text trying to express her frustration with life: “She wants to live for once. But doesn’t quite know what that means. Wonders if she has ever done it. If she ever will.” (1130) You can sense her need and wanting to be independent of everything and everyone, to be truly a woman on her own free of any shackles of burden that this life has thrown upon her. Also, there is an impression that her family does not really care that she is leaving from her sisters to her disinterested father. “Roselily”, the name is quite perplexing considering a rose stands for passion, love, life; while the lily has associations with death, and purity. Still at the same time the name aptly applies to her because the reader knows she is ultimately doomed to wilt away in a loveless marriage in Chicago. Even though she is convincing herself that she loves things about him it is all just a ploy to trick herself into believing that this marriage could be the answer to all her problems. Now on to the men of Roselily’s past most of which are dead- beat dads that could not care about what happens to their children, or where they go.
...en as a realization that she cannot survive in a society that puts such restrictions on women, thus committing suicide, or so we are led to believe. Or it could be viewed as an act of tremendous courage, removing herself from a world that cannot hold her to societal expectations or rules.
“When Dad went crazy, we all had our own ways of shutting down and closing off…” (Walls 115).In Jeannette Walls memoir, The Glass Castle, Walls enlightens the reader on what it’s like to grow up with a parent who is dependent on alcohol, Rex Walls, Jeannette’s father, was an alcoholic. Psychologically, having a parent who abuses alcohol is the worst thing for a child. The psychological state of these children can get of poorer quality as they grow up. Leaving the child with psychiatric disorders in the future and or being an alcoholic as well.
As the ceremony goes on it seems like her whole life must be flashing before her eyes. She starts to think about a fourth son that she had, but that she let the father keep him since he was pretty well off money and education wise. She goes on to say he couldn’t live with “Roselily”, which brought me to the conclusion that maybe her name is Roselily. Which of course brings light to the picture because everything her name stood for she wasn’t, except for the fact that she was trying to be righteous in getting married and making a new life for her other three children.
In the final moments of the play Rose is totally aware of her journey. In a conversation with Cory, she tells him that when she first seen his father, she thought “Here is a man I can lay down with and make a baby”, fulfilling her dream of motherhood. “I married your daddy and settled down”, she sees how she continued to lose bit and pieces of herself during the marriage. However, standing in her own truth, she admits “It was my choice. It was my life and I didn’t have to live it like that. But that’s what life offered me in the way of being a woman and I took it. I grabbed hold of it with both hands.” Through her trials and tribulations Rose realizes that she doesn’t needed Troy to build a fence to protect her love ones from
...mark and its people should have helped her instead of letting the poor girl suffer. She suffered through this mental illness alone until her untimely death, which is still unclear whether it was suicide, accidental, or murder, but based on what that girl has had to endure; it would not be unlikely, that she simply could not bear it anymore. She had to put an end to the madness.
The essay, “Walk to Morning”, by Joseph Boyden details the failed suicide of the author. If one was to describe said story with a single word, no word would do better than the word decision. What is evident to the reader in the beginning of the story is how the author was mistreated the night of his attempted suicide, claiming she “was, saying nonsensical things and being mean to me”. At any time during this sudden change of attitude, the author could of made a decision to inquire about the cause of this sudden hostility. If this action was taken, perhaps his girlfriend would of at least explained the causes of why she wanted to break up with him or at least give him some meager sort of comfort following the break up.
In the novel Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a character named Beatrice also known as Mama, has many dynamic traits. Mama is a religious woman who respects and highly prioritizes her family. Mama’s husband Eugene becomes more abusive toward her children and herself which causes her to lose her unborn baby. In Mama’s mind and heart, she knows she has to protect her children so she makes the decision to poison Eugene. Mama’s character changes throughout the book, as she first starts as a very quiet and caring character but as Eugene’s abusiveness increases, it develops her into becoming a perpetrator that caused her to be very depressed.
Constance's family life is a major point of interest in the book and is really what the story revolves around. Coming from a broken family, with her dad leaving Constance, otherwise known as Clare with 5 other brothers and sisters and her mum. The Father was hardly around only to bring Christmas presents and food. Clare was abused by her mother everyday, terrible physical abuse was inflicted on the growing body of Clare, benign cancer of the breasts caused by constant punches and squeezing from her mother. Emotionally shut out and neglected by her mother, taunted and teased all the time by her mother and her new husband, frequently called UGLY and told she was not welcome and unwanted. Home life was so bad Clare took herself off to social services and asked to be put into a home but was refused, feeling helpless and life was not living she attempted suicide by swallowing a bottle of bleach. "I felt sick, happy and sad. I was happy because tonight if the bleach worked I would die. No more Tomorrows. Hip, Hip hooray." This quote shows the extent of the abuse her mother used on Constance, her home life was unbearable. It is very sad to think that many children and teenagers are stuck in abusive families with no escape.