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She acts childish when dealing with problems. Although Calvin Jarrett works the hardest to keep the Jarrett family together, his communication skills lack many important techniques. He often plays the helpless story when dealing with Beth and Conrad’s abnormal relationship. He feels like too much has happened between the two and that there is nothing he can do about it, thus practicing withdrawing. Occasionally, he acts violently by attacking others.

The true relinquishment of guilt does not happen only by forgiving self, but being forgiven by a person sinned to. As Amir loses Sohrab’s trust, he confesses “[he has] done a lot of things [he] regrets in his life and maybe none more then going back on the promise [he] made [Sohrab]” (374) and tells Sohrab he will wait until he is ready to forgive. Amir sincerely apologizes for what he has done to Sohrab instead of avoiding like as he did during his childhood. Through his confession, Amir acknowledges that he is the one to blame for Sohrab’s tragic action. And he will be only able to relinquish this guilt when Sohrab gives him forgiveness and accepts Amir’s confession and apology.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don’t want, and to impress people they don't like. In the book The Great Gatsby, a man named Jay was madly in love with his long lost girlfriend Daisy. Five years later when he finds her Daisy is married and has a daughter. Every character in the novel is money-obsessed, whether they were born with money, whether they made a fortune, or whether they’re eager for more. Money changed lots of the decisions the characters made, maybe even most of the decisions made apart from Nick were done for money.

In A Long Way Gone, Beah’s culture holds family very dearly, and their is much love and respect for one’s family. In fact, one main reason Beah keeps on his journey is in hope to see his family once more. Mister in the film however, has a very different outlook on family. His mother who doesn’t provide enough and is a drug addict, is someone who he does not respect. Mister calls her out on her actions, and gets mad that she has been saying she’s trying to get things together for a long time.

Lawrence, is a short story about a boy named Paul. This young boy lived with his unhappy mother, along with the other family members. The mother had grown to be unhappy because she had married for love instead of money and in her eyes, she was now unlucky as a result of that decision because they didn’t have much money. However, they lived a lifestyle that would appear to others that they were wealthy, but truly they were not. The young boy, Paul, had asked his mother about luck and if she was lucky herself.

Sally also shows these same trends of being forced to be a caregiver. It says on page 101 sally even gets less than that “Looking out the window is the last hope and pleasure of many of the trapped women of Mango Street, but Sally’s husband denies her even that.” The book The House on Mango Street is used in my opinion to show the impact of others around you, the impact of men on women just seems the most apparent. It shows how others before you can make you live life with such narrow vision, such little possible imagination, especially when you don't know what to imagine. Esperanza is different, that is how the author needed it, to show us that people can be different, that change is

During most of the disagreements between Ponyboy and Cherry, they often reach an agreement about the greasers and the Socs. While Ponyboy is thinking about Randy, he proves points about greasers having a harder life and problems. Through the conflicts or conversation between Ponyboy and other characters, such as Randy and Cherry, Hinton proves that people may think that they all have problems, but some people have problems that that are much harder than others. Through a few of Ponyboy’s arguments with Cherry, Ponyboy comes to the realization that life is hard for everyone to get through and they all have obstacles in their way. While Ponyboy is talking to Cherry, he says, “‘Do you think you're spying for us makes up for the fact that you're

Grief has caused me to behave in different ways, depending on; my age, what I lost, or the difficulties that I have gone through. When I was younger, I reacted to grief through; ignoring my problems, getting angry, or by becoming depressed. Now I have I learned that grief is part of life, and although I still feel anger and depression as a reaction to some situations, this realization has helped me find a way to deal with my grief in a calmer way that doesn’t worsen a bad situation. I have discovered a unique way of dealing with life’s problems through my; self-awareness of dealing with grief, my unfinished businesses, and my interactions with others dealing with grief. My self-awareness or personality when dealing with grief is usually to

The guilt can expand the thinking that a person might have but when a person thinks about the guilt they can start healing because they come to realize the truth. In the text it states, “ We often take responsibility in a way that goes beyond what we can reasonably be held responsible for.”(para. 6, Moral Logic) This quote from the text shows that people all around the world usually take blame or responsibility over things they may have not done. That further explains the claim that people should feel survivor's guilt because it occurs in many ways, in ways where they don’t even take thought of it and just act upon feeling guilt, which allows them to

Overwhelming life’s struggles are never easy to go through. Refer to the movie “Pursuit of happiness”, the main character, Chris Gardner, a man who hardworking and courage but loses everything and live with struggle in his life. Therefore, we are going to discuss about the factors that lead to life struggling. First and foremost, financial issues will become the main factor that lead to life struggling. Based on what Elizabeth Warren (1949), she concluded that balancing the money is the point to get enough.” As adult especially for those who have family, it was hard to survive and financially support to the whole family if you are experience financial problems.