Many people experience depression, and don’t know how to show it, but Melinda finds a way around that problem by showing it in her drawings of trees in art class. In the novel Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino is pushed into arguably the worst year of her entire existence. After an obscured anguish over the summer, Melinda enters ninth grade being quiet and somber. Struggling with school, family, and friends, melinda explains the tragic story of her experiences, and the reason why she has decided not to speak. Although Melinda does show some evident outer signs, such as cutting her wrist with a paperclip, much of Melinda's depression is shown through her artwork of trees.
“It’s not that I want to die-it’s just that I can’t stand the pain of living anymore. I just want the hurt and pain inside to go away.” He just wanted everything to stop. “So I came back here, to sit on my lumpy, linty bed spread, wishing i had never been born, stroking the smooth, cool barrel of my father’s shotgun.” He shot himself right through the head while his blood his dripping through to the floor, down to the ceiling of the downstairs
Thoughts in regards to suicide often include empathy for the dead, and wonder as to what drove the person to end their life. All too often, people ignore a rather important consideration: the thoughts and feelings of those left behind. The loved ones are left with the remorse, despondence, and grieving, while the dead are absolved of their worldly anguish. In “The Grieving Never Ends”, Roxanne Roberts employs a variety of rhetorical tactics including metaphors, imagery, tone, and syntax to illustrate the indelible effects of suicide on the surviving loved ones. Roberts effectively uses metaphors to express the complex, abstract concepts around suicide and human emotion in general.
JD Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye is about a boy named Holden Caulfield and his struggle with life. As a teenager, he has one goal and that is to simply find his place in the world. Unlike an ordinary teenager he has a severe case of depression, and displays many signs to exhibit this mental illness. As we escalate through the novel, we notice that his depression seems to be getting worse and that he is feeling despondent more often.
Depression is something that everyone has felt. However severe or minor, that feeling of hopelessness and uselessness is a never-ending void that will continuously pull someone in until there is nothing left. Such is the feeling that Melinda Sordino suffers in the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Her depression stems from being raped at a party before freshman year and becomes a social outcast because no one knows what happened. During her first year at high school, she slowly learns how to express herself through her art, symbolized by a tree.
Holden represents the theme depression throughout the novel. Depression is a serious condition in which a person feels sad, hopeless, and unimportant. One main reason he experiences depression is because he withdraws himself from society, struggling with the death of his brother, and a lack of motivation in life. Holden's personality is very pessimistic which shows that he tends to look at the negativity instead of the bright side of life. Another reason Holden is depressed is because of his habit of drinking and smoking.
The book “The Catcher in the Rye” is about a teenager named holden who is depressed and says he wants to kill himself because no one likes him or no one wants to hangout with him. The reader diagnoses holden with suicidal depression because he is always depressed and wants to kill himself and talks about it all the time. The first reason that the reader diagnosed holden with suicidal depression is He tried to kill himself.
He simply had depression, along with his depression came his suicidal thoughts. I watched his personal nurse grow depression, along with the man she couldn’t take the constant doubt along with the misery. I began checking on the man on my own time just to keep an eye out. One day I decided to ask him how his day was going. The man looked up from his slouched stance, looking around as if he didn’t know what was happening or who was talking to him.
In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist Holden Caulfield is depressed, sarcastic and dishonest. As Holden is conversing with his roommate Ackley, he suddenly [wishes he was dead], this contextual image describes Holden’s internal conflict with depression. Soon afterwards, Holden abruptly decides that he is leaving Pencey and starts packing his bags, he notices ice skates that his mother bought earlier and claims that presents “[make him sad]”, this contextual image hints to Holden’s depression as he is unhappy at a time when most people are joyful. Throughout chapters 7-12 Holden constantly repeats the phrase “lonesome and depressed” this repetition highlights Holden’s fight with depression. Holden is dishonest, lying
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner follows the Bundren family on their arduous journey to fulfill their dying mother's wish: to be buried with her family. Faulkner utilizes fifteen narrators, including Vardaman, the confused child, Addie, the dying mother, and objective characters such as the Tull family, to recount the details of the family's quest. Although death is a meaningful and somber topic, Faulkner reveals his opinion that death is an escape from the difficulties of life. Despite this grim subject matter, Faulkner uses irony and humor to effectively turn the novel into a dark comedy. Faulkner illustrates this dark humor through Addie's anticipation of her death, Anse's blatant ignorance toward his dying wife, and Vardaman's amusing confusion about death.
Teen depression is a real clinical issue that affects the emotions and behavior of a teen. This mental struggle has many serious symptoms to it. This problem is usually not temporary and needs long term treatment by medication and psychotherapy. In the novel Catcher In The Rye, we follow the story of a teenager named Holden and his two day adventure after failing school again. Throughout the story he displays many of the symptoms associated with teen depression.
Till Death Do Us Part Young love torn away piece by piece, yet not restored. Romeo showed multiple signs of depression and many of them went unnoticed, or overlooked. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo, a young teen becomes depressed, when the women he loves does not love him back.
According to Amnesty International, more than 500 people die each day due to gun violence. In the poetry novel “Long Way Down”, the main character Will, mourns the loss of his brother who is shot and killed. Will goes to find and kill Shawn’s killer. He is then visited by multiple ghosts in an elevator. The author Jason Reynolds uses imagery, repetition, and similes in order to show the mourning mood that is represented throughout the book.
Williams's "The Use of Force" depicts the in-home treatment of an ill child from the doctor's perspective. Despite asking the child questions to find the source of the disease, she gave no response. The mother continuously tries to convince her daughter to allow the physician to do his job, but she still refuses. As fatal diphtheria has spread throughout their school, more stress is induced on the doctor and the parents, which leads to them forcing this diagnosis. Frustrated with the lack of obedience, the doctor loses composure, ignores the lack of informed consent, and orders the father to hold Matilda's wrists down to restrain her.
