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Most people wake up and never think about being murdered by someone they once loved. Tracy Allen most likely thought the same way until one fatal night Garland Allen, her ex-husband and the father of her two children, took her life. In this episode of Cold Justice, Kelly Siegler and Yolanda McClary uncover how the crime was solved, the typology of the crime and the motivation for the crime. As Wolf (2014) wrote in the episode, on May 18, 2001 in Altus, Oklahoma was the last time anyone saw or heard from 27-year-old Tracy Allen.
One of the recurring themes of Anne Fadiman’s novel The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is the cultural unawareness that is present, not only the American perspective, but the Hmong perspective as well. This is evident in the recountment of a Hmong American that returns to visit Ban Vinai, a refugee camp in Thailand, after establishing herself in the United States. Most of the book is written with a focus on the Western doctors lacking understanding of Hmong language, customs and culture which in turn made it difficult for them to treat patients such as Lia. They struggled to explain procedures, while practical to them, appeared harmful and life-threating to the Hmong.
Jeannette Walls' memoir, The Glass Castle, explores the theme of forgiveness through the lens of her upbringing, demonstrating that forgiveness is a complex and transformative process that requires understanding, empathy, and self-reflection. Throughout the book, Walls portrays her parents, Rex and Rose Mary Walls, as flawed individuals, often neglectful and irresponsible. Their actions, such as Rex's alcoholism and Rose Mary's indifference towards her children's well-being, caused immense suffering and instability in Jeannette's life. Yet, despite the hardships endured, Walls offers glimpses of forgiveness towards her parents. For instance, when she visits her father in a New York City alley, she confronts him about his failures and their
In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down, Anne Fadiman reflected on ways in which cultural dissonance can have detrimental consequences for those who are caught in the midst of two cultures. In this influential story, the cultural and language barriers between Lia Lee’s family and her doctors caused Lia’s life to be negatively impacted due to improper diagnosis and treatment. The Lees preferred traditional and spiritual treatment that clearly differed from the doctors’ Westernized treatment. Through a constant battle between proper treatment and the Lee parent’s compliance, this caused Lia to live in a persistent vegetative state for the majority of her life. The language barrier that the Lee’s faced at Merced hospital was discouraging,
Mary Flannery O’Connor’s 1953 short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, is a captivating story that starts out with a family taking an innocent trip to Florida that ultimately costs them their lives. The main character in O’Connor’s story is the Grandmother, a woman who dresses up for a car ride “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady” (Flannery 250). The irony of her statement is that the grandmother is no lady at all. O’Connor’s story is riddled with irony that starts with the title “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and ends with “The Misfit” firing three shots into the grandmother’s chest. O’Connor’s story leads with the ironic title “A Good Man is Hard to Find”.
Although often used interchangeably, disease and illness differ fundamentally in their meanings and implications. Disease is the commonly thought of concept in which a person suffers due to a physiological or psychological ailment, while illness refers to a culmination of physical, emotional and social suffering of a person. Disease is perceived as the phenomena that affects an organism, while illness affects not only the patient but also their loved ones and community. This distinction is vividly apparent in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, in which Anne Fadiman relays the approaches to a Hmong child named Lia’s epilepsy by her family and her doctors as well as the tumultuous interaction between these caregivers. It is interesting to understand how Hmong culture and a doctor’s
Marisela Perez is a twenty-three-year-old student in the MSW program here at Southern Connecticut State University. Marisela is an United States citizen, but most of here family originated in Guatemala and El Salvador. Her primary language is Spanish, which is only spoken in her household. English became her secondary language when she transitioned into the New Haven Public school system. She was raised in a single parent house hold with her mother and four other siblings, two boys and three girls.
In the story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor, there is no doubt the reader should consider the grandmother a villain. Throughout the story, it is easy to assume the grandmother would eventually lead the family to some sort of downfall. The grandmother has many traits that make her a villain, and through her judgemental nature, selfish acts, and inability to stop talking, she leads her family and herself to their death. Throughout the story it is obvious that the grandmother is very judgemental of people and seems to consider herself as better than everyone.
In Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" contains situational irony. This story, as in most of O'Connor's stories, the irony being a tool that is used throughout all her writings to illustrate the central conflict. Thus O'Connor's tool had not been in the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" she uses the irony to paint the picture of the transitioning interaction between the main characters, The Misfit and the grandmother. It is my contention that in the story " A Good Man Is Hard to Find," took the role of highlighting how the fear of death seems to change a person's character for the better. The irony functions as a conduit for the reader to reflect on their personal character by relating to the changes in the grandmother
When the religious grandmother wants to take a trip to Tennessee to see her roots with her son and his family, she does all she can to persuade them to go instead of traveling to Florida. The grotesque short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, by Flannery O’ Connor involves a gruesome ending, where the Misfit, who escapes federal prison, ends up murdering the grandmother and her family. The Grandmother believes the Misfit has the potential to be a good person even if he has made mistakes in his past by committing crimes. O’ Connor does not want the grandmother to be looked at as a saint or witch, but does not want the Misfit to be seen as the devil either (Wynne). Irony is used in the story because the Grandmother and Misfit are similar characters,
Shiftlet. Mr. Shiftlet is enticed by the old and beaten up car on the ladies property, “…and [his eyes] had moved to a shed where he saw the square rusted back of an automobile. “You ladies drive?” he asked. “That car ain’t run in fifteen year,”…”Nothing is like it used to be” he said.
The United State's 2018 Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith is a renowned author, well known for her book of poems titled Life on Mars. Throughout her poems, a recurring theme of grief is presented by Smith. The grief in Smith's work can be attributed to the loss of her father which was the inspiration for her poetry. Another inspiration for Smith's poetry is the artist David Bowie. Bowie plays an important role in assisting Smith in coping with her father's death and he is also the inspiration of many of her other poems, including "Savior Machine," which shares a name with the Bowie song.
I sympathize the least with The Misfit. In the story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" written by Flannery O'Connor. The Misfit is the antagonist when he shoots the family traveling in the middle of the night. From his actions, he reveals that he is a want to equate the Misfit esociopath, with possible narcissistic personality traits. The Misfit seems like a kind man in the south when approaching them, but then the family sees the guns and get nervous.
As of 2013, the adult illiterate population rests at 756,631,055 people, many of whom are illiterate because they are denied, or lack access, to education. Many countries argue that education is a right for of all its people, but others claim that education is a privilege for only the wealthy or deserving. The topic of education being a privilege or a right is one that affects all people of the world, and the countries that they live in. Overall, any decision on whether education is ultimately a right or privilege is one that would dramatically change education systems worldwide, not only in developed countries, but also in some underdeveloped countries who deprive their people of knowledge. While many countries around the world agree with and support the idea that education is a right, a presence of the argument that education is a privilege for various reasons,
Patricia O 'Brien 's article on We should stop putting women in jail. For anything is not practical. The article title was misleading and the article focused on women should not be incarcerated for nonviolent crimes and getting rid of women 's prisons. The examination of women in U.S. prisons reveals that majority are nonviolent offenders with poor education, little employment experiences and abuse from childhood to adulthood. She said the United States is a prison nation and have more than 1.5 million people incarcerated.
