...Hi, I'm Marry Hill. A proud mother of a world war 1 solider Michael Bergin. I still remember the day I sent him off to our local convent school. He always used to look at me with his big blue eyes and say that his dream was to make a difference in the world. After graduation Jesuit college Mungret and becoming a catholic school teacher, the outbreak of world war 1 came. Along with other Syrian foreigners, he was imprisoned and then expelled by the Turkish government. It was then that Michael decided to enlist for world war 1 on the 5th of October 1914. On the 10th of May 1915, myself and my husband Michael Bergin stood at the loading dock at Victoria, Melbourne. As the big H.M.A.T A38 Ulyeese was loading. Michael said his last goodbyes, picked...
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...first-person narrative perspective of Christopher, the narrative conversion through letters from mother, and Christopher’s interactions with society. These techniques contribute to the development and exploration of perspectives throughout the novel. Haddon’s use of first-person narration enables the reader to experience Christopher’s perception of the world and his terminal struggle with human interaction and fundamental concepts. This technique provides an understanding of living with Asperger’s...
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...functioning end of the Autism Spectrum. The book begins with, as the title suggests, a rather curious incident with the neighbor, Mrs. Shear’s poodle Wellington. Shortly after midnight, Christopher wanders over to Mrs. Shear’s yard only to find Wellington dead on the grass with what appears to be a pitchfork driven through his body. At this point Christopher is discovered by Mrs. Shears and the police are called. When the police begin asking questions of Christopher, he does not like it and ends up hitting the police officer and getting arrested for assault. Here begins a conflicted relationship for Christopher with police authority that continues for the rest of the novel. It is at the police station where we first meet Christopher’s father and primary care giver. For the rest of the novel Christopher tries to become a detective and solve the mystery of who killed Wellington and why. As Christopher begins his adventures in detective work he decides to chronicle the Wellington case in a novel he begins to write. Christopher is assisted in his authorship by Siobhan who is part teacher, part psychologist, part friend. Siobhan works with Christopher at his school for special needs. Christopher looks to Siobhan for a great deal of support and guidance. She is one of, if not ultimately the most, trusted figure in Christopher’s life. She assists Christopher when he has difficulties understanding the nuisances of the world around. Siobhan almost functions as...
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...Decoding the Alphabet Letter after letter, together in different combinations, large and small, individually they are just the alphabet. However, these letters in different combinations are a mystery to me. I’m just wishing I had a decoder ring like orphan Annie did, or an enigma, maybe that way I could decipher the secret of this hidden message that is before me. All I can see is groups of letters; an alphabet soup of sorts. This is the way I felt while in the first grade. The teacher had set a progress report on my table that was to be handed to my parents. I ran all the way home exited and impatient. I don’t even remember looking both ways when crossing streets along the way. I just wanted to get home as fast as I could. As soon as I arrived, I just flung the door open and ran into the house searching for my mother. I found her in the laundry room folding clothes that she had just finished ironing. At home, my family always spoke Spanish, English was hardly if ever used. So I practically threw the progress card toward her. “Mama mira lo que me dio la profesora para ti!” My mother took the card and looked at it. Then she flipped it over and looked at it again. She had a puzzled look on her face as she turned it back to the front. I just looked up at her with big round eyes waiting for an explanation as to the secret that it held. “Que es lo que dice?” “Se lo daremos a tu padre cuando llege.” “Pero que dice?” “Tendras que esperarte.” Great, why won’t she tell...
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...not believe in the same God that her father and community believe in. She doesn’t tell her father and in result has nightmare and is forced to lie to her father to keep them happy. When Keith returns after running away her father beats him bloody because Keith did not want to tell him where he went. Butler portrays the father as a loving father however he has no problem hurting one of his kids in order to protect them. The father wants to keep Keith safe but Keith ends up leaving, angry at his father. Although her parents wanted to keep...
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...The Phenomenon of “ Father Absence” Reflections on Zweig’s Letter from an Unknown Woman. Abstract The father-absence is a widespread phenomenon in the society nowadays. However, it is recently that people notice the psychological importance of father as a significant influence on female character development. Empirical research has demonstrated various negative outcomes for females in single-parent homes such as being overshy, self-abandoned as well as indifferent to the sorrounding, all of which influence their life-choice. This paper deals with this problem mainly from how psychologically father-absence affects the development of the female character which strongly decides their fate based on Stephan Zweig’s novel: Letter from an Unknown Woman. Key words: father-absence， the Name-of-the-Father 1. Introduction Letter from an Unknown Woman is one of the most famous novels composed by Austrian writer Stephan Zweig. Its cyclically-told tale of romantic yearning and pining for love is embodied in the doomed, delusional relationship of the two romantic leads: a young neighbor girl's steadfast, sacrificial love for a self-absorbed, dilettante writer. Zweig uses the form of the woman’s monologue as a letter to show us a tragic story of her whole life: how she falls in love with her neighbor, keeps faith for him through her whole life while the man has never recognized or remembered her. Many critics believe that the root-cause of this love-tragedy lies in...
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...Wife of U.S. diplomat and later second president John Adams, Abigail Adams, writes in her letter to her son John Quincy Adams how he has everything he needs in order to become a respected and honorable man. Adams’ purpose is to convince her son that he has the potential to become a hero to the nation. She adopts a maternal tone in encourage her son through the use of supportive diction, clear-cut comparisons, and expressive pathos. Adams begins her letter with the use of supportive diction. By using words such as “superiour” to describe the advantages her son has she helps boost his confidence. Adams is aware of the significant role she plays as JQA’s mother and understands that she can use that position to motivate him in some way others...
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...that the men were as slave owners and the women were treated as slaves. Celie, being the main character of the book, endures every form of abuse from individuals in her life that should have been showing her love. Everyone abused her except her sister Nettie, whom she found herself trying to protect from their father. Celie’s mother abused and cursed her, even while being on her sick bed because her husband, Celie and Nettie’s father, desired to have sex with Celie more than he did with his wife (Celie’s mother). Marriage is a union between a man and a woman although in today’s society in some states it could be man and man or woman and woman. However, within the traditional marriage, the man is said to be the head of the household, especially within the Christian faith. Marriage consists of God, the husband, and then the wife which is how it was intended to be. In this context, historically, the men within a marriage ruled or oppressed the wife. The wife had to do whatever her husband demanded of her. Alice Walker’s The Color Purple explains the marital oppression of women, which included an older widowed man who is given a younger unattractive wife by her step-father after asking for the more attractive daughter for marriage. Chanequa Walker Barnes of Duke University Library states, “The Color Purple is a story about pain and, ultimately, triumph.” Being that Celie is the unattractive child, she endures violence, rape, and the lack of love from those who should have protected...
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...Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Even though she is a young child through most of the book, she plays a very important role. Pearl asks many different questions throughout the text that make the adult characters even question themselves. She is more perceptive and more honest than anyone in the rest of the book. Without Pearl, “The Scarlet Letter” would not be as successful as it is. Pearl is supposed to be an average child, but she is also there to help us realize things we might not have seen on our own, and to symbolize sin and guilt. When we first meet Pearl, most of us realized that there was definitely something special about this little girl. She has a special insight into things in the book that I would have never noticed without Pearl. Hawthorne uses Pearl in a special way to reveal that Dimmesdale has something to do with the scarlet letter. Pearl is not used to being around a lot of people, so when she accepted Dimmesdale so openly it helped the readers realize who he truly was. It says “Pearl, that wild and unpredictable little elf, crept over to him. She took his hand in both of hers and laid her cheek against it.” (92) This is a kindness that most little girls would only share with a family member, such as their father. There is also other information that Pearl gives to reveal to us that she knows who her father truly is. When Hester and Pearl come across Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale on the scaffold, she asks him “Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, to-morrow...
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...form of autism. I say fortunately because this “disorder” allows Christopher to be very good at math and logic. When Christopher arrives at the scene he is spotted by the dog’s owner and his neighbor, Mrs. Shears. When she sees him she calls the police. Christopher ends up in jail. Not because of his wrong place wrong time situation, but because of an altercation at the scene in which he hits a police officer. In Jail Christopher is told by the police and his father not to mention this incident or look further into by any means. Being the witty child that he is, Christopher cleverly thinks of ways to skew those words so...
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...lie towards her father, who is currently in prison for that lie. The victim, the girl, told a lie that her father raped her at the age of six. The father has been incarcerated for seventeen years for this crime. The girl has now decided to tell the truth. She is a recovering drug/alcohol addict and is on her ninth step in a twelve step program. The pastor reaches out to his friend, the lawyer, who in turn, reaches out to his friend, who is currently a detective. He requests that she takes a look at the case and speak with the girl and the father and see if this is worth reopening. The father has always and still claims his innocence, stating the girl’s mother put her up to it, trying to get revenge on him. They had had several domestic cases throughout their marriage. The girl told the story, that the night in question, her father had come home to her cooking hot dogs for her and her...
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...I hope with this letter, our mother would obtain her green card and be by our side soon. Without our mother, I do not know how to help my sister when she is sick and/or has a migraine attack. With my father using our only vehicle for work, I cannot take my sister to the hospital or have a job myself. Furthermore, I am very stressed because of how my mother is living in Mexico. She lives in an apartment complex that looks very dangerous. There are bad roads, plenty of wrecks, and lots of graffiti on worn-down buildings with plenty of gangster-looking people. I strongly hope that she will not be living in such sub-standard conditions for too long. It has been a very emotional time for my whole family, and it would break our hearts to find out...
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...Young Couple (1959) Michael irked at the silence overpowering us as the icy breeze lingered in the air attacking our pale untouched skin. Sitting so close yet feeling somewhat withdrawn as his hand gripped onto the wooden hand rail. The horn of the train becoming more aggressive as it sped like lightening, racing towards us with our hearts rapidly, beating impatiently, for the awkward silence to end. Michael, who recently accepted a once in a lifetime job offer in Australia, against my wishes had a face full of emotion and contemplation. However, his desires and dreams had overpowered and clouded his judgment. Was I being selfish in expressing my irritation at his decision? Perhaps! But perhaps he should have considered my commitments at work and to my family. To just up and leave without considering the bigger picture demonstrates the self-centredness of Michael, the dog-eat-dog mentality of Michael and the disregard of the close friends and family by Michael. Nevertheless, he’d come home every Christmas, and maybe a few weeks in the summer. Long distance relationships can work and we could phone each other every weekend. I’m hopeful our relationship would remain intact; however the possibility of us drifting apart was becoming more realistic. The first telling sign was through the unpleasantness of possibly, our final meal. Last night’s dinner wasn’t what I expected it to be. The conversation drastically changed from a pleasurable small talk to a heated argument. I...
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...Jacob Bussey Professor Caskey American Literature 8 February 2016 The Real Side of Letters The Scarlet Letter was set in the 17th- century puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years of 1642 to 1649. The people thought the church of England was to complex and wanted simpler truths and better structured forms of worship. They want to “purify” the church of England, they got the name of Puritans from that. The Scarlet letter starts off to let everyone know "all the characters are saved, and by this measure the novel is a comedy” ( Samuel Coale). The reason he is saying that is because through out the story they are not acting Christian like one bit. Dimmesale is the biggest hypocrite of them all, he will preach from the bible but does not live by it. Dimmesdale becomes the biggest sinner of them all when he declared himself from the scaffold after he finished his election sermon. “Dimmesdale is irreparably...
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...honour, but in the end, his dad would reject her works saying "it's never enough". One day, the girl asked her mom "can I ask you something?" she said "sure honey, what is it?" her mother said in reply, "does he love me?" she asked again "who?" her mother asked her," Dad" she said in reply, her mom petulanty asked her "of course, why would you think of something like that?" and she said in a low and cracky voice " because I can't feel it" her mother just went silent and continued what she was doing, and did not even mind the girl. That night the couple were arguing "you should apologize to her" , the girl's father slapped the table and said "NEVER!" the girl had heard this and cried. The girl had a diary where she would write everything that has happened to her life, and also, everything about his father. In life, there are days in which you feel very down and sad, there are also days in which you feel lucky that you wanted to shout it all over the universe and that happens to her dad after years of therapy. Her father learned to draw again and she got so happy for him, she thought that her father would hug her, but she was wrong, instead, her father immediately went out and boast to his neighbors and friends. Her...
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