Commentary On The Film 'Smokes Signals'

McKenzie-Grace or Kenzie as her friends and family call her is a far from normal 13 year old girl. Her life was turned upside down on 2/17/16 the night the accident happened. She got a call at 6:21 pm from officer Sam he said “ Hello is this McKenzie-Grace” when she replied “Yes officer” he stated “There has been an accident and your mother has passed away in a car accident and will not be home this evening”. That is when Mckenzie-Grace hung up the phone and broke into tears. Kenzie had to handle her mother 's death maturely for her father started drinking.

Paul is a 27 year old African American male. He is married with two kids. Paul was raised by his mom and dad until the age of 11 years old when his father committed suicide, at which point, Paul was left with just his mom. His father committed suicide after hitting hard times after being jailed for robbery in an attempt to provide for his family. Afterwards, Paul’s father could not find employment and fell into despair ending with a shotgun blast to his head.

Over 50% of young people in shelters and on the streets report that their parents told them to leave or knew they were leaving and didn’t care. The parents are the ones that lead their kids to being homeless because, they don’t even care what their kids are doing. Of the youth that run away 41% have been abandoned by their parents for at least 24 hours. 43% have been beaten by a care taker. Family rejection on the basis of sexual orientation and gender was the most frequently cited factor contributing to LGBT homelessness (46%).

Ethan Frome Essay Everyone at one point in their life has felt isolated in more ways than one. None so ever as Ethan from the book “Ethan Frome”. In this book from humble beginnings Ethan’s parents became very queered his father became ill and his mother queer minded, every-time he tried to talk to her she was say shhhhh I'm listing or someone is talking so he would just leave. He was isolated not because he was orphaned, but because his parent became sick when he was at such a young age he had to take care of them he couldn't go outside and play he didn't have any friends he could go be with all day n night he was watching over his mother and father or he was doing a mans’ job around the house. Then came one day when his father died and

Unfortunately, this issue is still evident even after 60 years. Abbey, a 17 year old Australian committed suicide after years of being sexually abused by her dad, by someone who was supposed to care for her and look after her. “My guts screamed ‘no contact’ but I felt so alone. I was pressured into accepting contact orders or told that the outcome would be even worse.”, said Gill, Abbey’s mother. This clearly shows that Abbey’s dad had more power than her mum.

Emotionally, Molly and Vivian experienced traumatic challenges and the feeling of loss. Both of their parents died when they were younger. As an orphan, they had to let go of several foster parents. In the first chapter, Molly states year after year, she has been rejected over and over again and no one looked out for her well-being before her boyfriend Jack. Molly controls her emotions by imagining of an enormous box with chains

Peterson stated that when she was eight-years-old her mother and father divorced. She stated that immediately after her parents divorced her mother remarried her stepfather. Ms. Peterson stated that when she was eight-years-old her stepfather started physically and sexually abusing her. Ms. Peterson stated that she told her mother about the abuse, and her mother blamed Ms. Peterson for the abuse, and continued to allow Ms. Peterson to be exposed to her boyfriend. Ms. Peterson stated her mother’s failure to protect and believe her made her feel worthless and unloved.

I asked my friend, concernedly, why she looked so different. He somberly replied that she had rheumatoid arthritis. He opened to tell me how, despite the available treatment, she was unable to complete her education or have a job because she could not walk in the evenings and had severe pains all night every night since her teenage and that she was never married and was dependent on her parents. For a 15 years old me, it was distressing. This experience exposed me to the reality of human suffering.

On Christmas Eve my junior year of college, my grandpa and grandma on my mom’s side passed away in an accident. A week later, my older brother suffered from a psychotic episode and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital with symptoms of schizophrenia. Travelling back to school, I was physically and emotionally drained. This was hardest time of my life and the largest obstacle I have faced so far. I rely on my family for support and this foundation had been severely shaken; however, I did not have time to mourn and recover.

Many people look at convicts as just stupid people that just made all the wrong decisions in life, and for the majority of my life I looked at them in the same way. My father has been a police officer for years, well before I was even born. About 30 years to be exact and whenever you ask him what he does , he’ll tell you “get them bad guys”. So when I was about 10 or so years old and was forced by my mother to visit a “correctional facility” aka prison with my youth group, I was terrified. I badgered my mother for a whole week leading up to the tour.