Arthur Severo Castro
Professor Laura Ahmed
English 51
15 May 2012
Final Essay Alcoholic Beverages and Its Troubles In the novel, Queen of Dreams, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, the theme of alcoholism plays an important role. Alcoholic beverages are one of the most dangerous things in our world, if not properly drunk. It can bring up a lot of consequences like diseases, family problems and even the death. The parents and adults have a huge importance in this theme, especially when being about alcoholic drinks and children. Alcoholic beverage is any beverage that contains ethyl alcohol, also called ethanol. And the alcohol can be regarded as the best selling drug on our planet. The author shows us a character, Rakhi’s father, he is a dependent alcoholic. “His drinking was erratic. I could never understand what brought it on. Sometimes he’d go for one month without touching alcohol. Other times he’d start drinking on Friday and continue through the weekend.” (Divakaruni 36), this character shows us one situation that happens a lot in our world, children who has dependent alcoholic parents. That is a big problem. Children of alcoholic parents often have academic problems. “They have higher levels of depression and anxiety and exhibit more symptoms of generalized stress” (Brown Jr.). Sometimes one of the solutions that those children find to relieve the stress is having a bad behavior, and then they start to make bad decisions, like argue with teachers, not go over the lessons and it just tends to generate more and more problems and worsen. Another solution that those poor children who do not have any fault used to find is runs away from their homes, this generates a big trouble in the society life. Because these children who are not in home anymore, they are going to need to find a solution to survive, then it becomes a problem even bigger. The consequence is