In the story “So Much Water So close To Home” Claire starts to think a lot about her own life and her view of the world today. A world where no one trusts each other and no one cares about each other anymore, and her own life stuck in a moment she can't get out of, everything has turned into an old habit, and she even asks herself if she whishes to be somebody else. She is having a minor psychological breakdown. She is running back and forward in time, starts to think about small and unimportant things, she is overprotective of their son, suddenly a small word like love has a big meaning, she goes to the funeral of the dead girl, taking distance from her husband. She sleeps alone, she doesn't like him touching her, and she can't take him seriously when he offers to help her. When he lays his hand on her, and shows her that he is sexually interested, she steps back and says, "STOP" which tells us that his hands that may have touched or even killed a girl are not going to touch her and it gives her a thrill every time he does so. Stuart keeps being patient, likes to help, and the fact that he says,"… that's what husbands are for", shows that he can see and feel what she is going through, but she keeps stepping away from him, and that's where Stuart gets angry and loses his temper. He should give her time to think and leave her alone, but I see nothing wrong in him being polite and showing that he does care. Somehow I think she is overreacting, she has to try to face the mess the family has ended up with, and then open up her mouth and tell her own husband what thoughts and ideas are troubling her. I am sure that if they both would let each other help one another and really get down to the bottom of it, then they would work things out, and I even think that their lives would be a lot better than it was before.
Why would a married woman go out, spend the night with a man whom she barely knows, when she has a wonderful, devoted husband and child? Mrs. Mallard's cry of ultimate relief and the joy she felt when she learned of her husband's deathis intolerable.
She allows her mother to control her and make decisions for her. During their conversation, she asks her mom if she should marry Mr. Jones even if she does not love him. Her mother does not seem to care until Helen mentions that he is Vice-President of the company. Her mother says that she should marry him whether she loves him or not because he will be able to take care of her and Helen. They continue to discuss how Helen can marry this man that she doesn’t like so she will never have to work again and he can support her mother, or she can say no at the risk of losing her job and not being able to support her mother anymore. Helen ties in how life is making her “feel like I’m stifling!” (591). Again, I feel this is another representation of Helen not being able to handle the pressures of society. Helen can’t talk about important decisions she has to make without feeling claustrophobic and blowing up by saying things like “I’ll kill you!” (592). I think she blows up because her mother is always nagging her and she can’t handle it in that moment anymore, especially since it is a conversation about
One can say that Claire acts selfishly for trying to find men that suit her expectations of a true lover, but to only find men who want sex. Hsün Tzu would also say that Claire’s emotions are chaotic, which cause her to make decisions that she would not reflect on because she is too deep into her own fairytale that she is blind to the fact that she is killing people. In a scene where she is talking to her next victim about just starting out dating men just a week before, she shows no remorse or any emotion that she had killed the man that she said she had dated (Criminal Minds S10 E6 24:04). Unlike Mengzi, Hsün Tzu would agree that reflection would not work for Claire because she is already who she
Also, when Matt and Kate are talking with each other, it is strained and they are unsure of what to say to each other. As Matt and Kate are talking, Kate narrates, “I had never loved anyone as I loved Matt, But now, when we saw each other, there was something unbridgeable between us, and we had nothing to say.” (Pg. 241) When siblings have a weak relationship it is hard to converse with each other, which is what is happening with Matt and Kate. Finally, when Kate is returning home for Matt’s son’s birthday celebration, Matt becomes nervous to see her again. While talking about Matt, his wife, Marie, shares with Kate, “If you could see him when he knows you`re coming home…at first he’s so happy… but then as it gets closer, he doesn’t sleep.” (Pg. 279) Kate’s opinion matters very much to Matt and seeing her after an absence causes him anxiety. It is clear that when Kate returns home, her relationship with Matt is immensely different from what it is when she is
Helen comes from a very low class family and community. Helen’s family is known as what is called “the ghetto”, although they may not have riches they have a great heart that unites them happily. Helen depended so much on a believed love who failed her. Helen never really came far on her education due to having everything with Charles. Charles lost interest on Helen, but she was blindfolded to see that her happiness didn’t exist. Charles has had an affair during their matrimony with a light complected woman who is mother of his two children. The woman had more power over Helen’s feelings because Charles realized his children needed him. Charles left Helen without much to do, kicking her out o...
The wife lived in denial, trying to live the life of a perfect person unaffected by what had happened to her son Buck. A certain image had to be upheld and everything else was secondary. Even the love for her husband was not as perfect as it was shown..She tries to keep these feelings and memories of her lost son buried deep inside her. She finds it very difficult to show any emotion concerning the fact that one of her sons is never coming back. She tried to portray an image of things being just perfect. Her portrayal includes not wanting to discuss anything that may upset her, she is always walking away from the conversation. It seems as though she does it in every scene. The scene that caught my attention the most was at the end, when she walked away from Calvin after he said he wasn’t sure if he still loved her. That is a pretty powerful statement, and you would think she would want to know why. I’m sure she did, she just didn’t know how to discuss it. So par for the course, she walked away, with something else she will have to tuck away for the rest of her life.
3. My age and social economic status does limit my perspective on this story from lack of many experiences, but I do relate to loss and shock from one particularly challenging incident in my life about three years ago. It messed with my mind more than my heart. Throughout the entire story it seemed that the main character, Ms. Mallard, had not been emotionally present. Her husband’s death and reappearance was clearly a trigger to whatever hidden feelings that she had manifested in her shocking death related to their time spent together. As a young male, I find that true feelings are really hard to display in a society that expects you to behave a specific way under certain unwritten codes. Living in a modern world where women with economic
In the beginning of the story, the first thing John does to exercise his power is to isolate his wife from family, friends, and society as a whole. In response to her worsened state of mind due to her depression, he feels that it is his responsibility as the man to make the decision to isolate her in a large house outside of any town (285). By deciding on what should happen without consulting his wife herself shows the effect that gender roles have on both of them. John, believing he is the only one to make logical decisions due to his role as a man, puts his wife in her place by isolating her. She draws the attention of the reader to the fact that she is suffering at the hand of her husband throughout the story, yet she justifies his behavior by saying that she is a burden and that he is “Very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction” (285). The way she brings up this recurring behavior of John guiding his wife, it is further shown the dominance he has over his wife and the decisions he lets her make. Despite the fact that John forces his wife to stay in the house, she admits how much she craves society and the people she loves (285). Although she tries to share this with John, he doesn’t listen and she...
“Water is the driving force of all nature.” Leonardo da Vince once said. Water is a huge part of life, and everything that lives requires water to make it through its days on earth. A lot of people think that the world has massive amounts of water available for use; therefore, most roll their eyes when conserving water is mentioned. After all, 71% of the earth’s surface is made up of water. However, the truth is that only 2.5% of that is clean, drinkable water, and two-thirds of that percentage is unavailable because it is stuck in ice caps and glaciers (water). The water ordeal in America is bigger than many realize, and the United States needs to begin looking at how we can solve this issue. The U.S. needs to acknowledge the impending dangers and help the states that are already suffering by putting water conservation methods in place and investing money into research for alternatives.
Michigan has its fair share of environmental issues. Among the state’s biggest issue concerns water quality. Pollution is enormous within the Great Lakes, as can be seen in Lake Michigan and several rivers such as the Kalamazoo and Grand River. The contamination of water includes such things as sewage, dumping of toxic chemicals, garbage, and mercury emissions from power plants and factories. According to Brandon Howell of Mlive Michigan news, who discusses the issues of mercury, “Mercury is a dangerous neurotoxin that harms growing children and pollutes our environment” (2). Factors like toxins and sewage, pose a threat to the wildlife that depend on the lakes and rivers. Poor water quality could very well possibly be related to poor economic conditions that the state is currently suffering from right now. The quality of water is a major problem in Michigan that should be brought to attention so that citizens can understand the pollution risk factors if they want to contribute to the solution of cleaner water.
In the novel, Claireece is a teenager who has no idea how absolutely wrong her parents are and that there are ways she can get help. However, all she wishes for is for her mother to start being a better parent and for herself to forget about everything that happened in her life. In the movie, Claireece is portrayed as a violent teen who wants revenge for what her parents have done to her. At one point in the novel, Claireece is telling a story about how, when her father raped her, she liked it and never asked him to stop because it felt good. She didn’t know that it was wrong at the time and was an innocent little girl. This is proven when Claireece says, “Daddy sick me, disgust me, but still he sex me up. I nawshus in my stomach but hot tight in my twat and I think I want it back, the smell of the bedroom, the hurt - he slap my face till it sting and my ears sing separate songs from each other, call me names, pump my pussy in out in out in out awww I come.” (Sapphire, 60) She clearly doesn’t know that it is completely unacceptable for a father to rape his child but she also doesn’t do anything to stop it from happening. Claireece has so many mixed emotions that makes it difficult to understand exactly what is happening. In the novel, Claireece is also not a violent person and doesn’t want to cause any trouble to her mom or her dad in any way. In the movie,
Firstly, Claire is pampered. At the beginning of the movie, she is dropped off in a BMW (a very expensive car) and later on during lunch, she eats a very fancy Japanese cuisine. Just by her appearance, you can tell Claire comes from a wealthy family due to her posh expensive clothes and diamond earrings that Bender brings attention to later. Her attire is very sophisticated and she was even in detention for skipping class to go shopping. Claire’s parents are divorced and she is used as a weapon by them to get back at the other, the way she is treated at home affects her thoughts and feelings about her self-worth, which leads to her seeking approval from others.
In the story "So Much Water So Close To Home" a young girl is raped, killed and found in a river where four men are fishing. What makes this story interesting is that after discovering the body they did not report it until after they left, three days later. When one of the men who discovered her, the husband of the narrator, Stuart returns home he doesn't tell his wife about the incident until the following morning. Because of this, Claire believes that all men are responsible for the murder of the girl. Due to these facts she acts irrationally, suspiciously, and with distrust not only towards her husband, but also to all men in general.
Water Scarcity is harmful to human life because when water is poorly managed throughout the world, those who need water are deprived of nutrients they truly need causing them to die. This eventually affects the global population. Therefore many experts have proposed several solutions such as the LifeSaver Bottle, TrojanUVPhox treatment system, and Waste Water Recycling.
Water is an irreplaceable natural resource on this earth which comprises marine, estuarine, fresh water (river and lakes), ground water across coastal and inland areas. Even though there is huge water resource in this world, about 97% of water is salt water (marine) only 3% is fresh water. And in this small fraction of fresh water a major part is in the form of ice in polar region. So just 0.003% is in the form of ground water and surface water which we can use.