Essay 4 Based on Misery

To be alone is a sad thing. Whether by choice or by terrible luck, when we are alone we feel helpless. It takes the form of a crushing hand grasping you by the heart threatening to wrench it from your chest to punish you for your foolhardiness. A person, regardless of whether they are a strong willed individual or a weak one, needs to be able to lean on someone every once in a while. Constant solitude brings about a form of thinking that is harmful to everyone around us, regardless of whether we love or hate them. When someone finally comes along to help offload everything you’ve built up, you cling to them desperately, praying they won’t leave you alone again to wallow in your doubt and self pity. To be part of something is an uplifting experience. When you find something you are able to be a part of, all that doubt and pity wash away and your soul feels free. A confidence will start to build a sort of support in yourself that when people go away you can cling to and know, eventually, there will be others to help you. In the event that no one comes to your aid, you’ll lash out violently. It may not be physical violence, but you could say something out of spite that you know will hurt someone worse than a thrown punch could. Emotionally you become detached, unable to be reached by anything except what you obsess over. When finally you have what you crave in your grasp you hurt it. You make it feel the pain you’ve felt, forcing it to deal with the pain of being alone, the joy of being a part of something, and then the coldness that spreads when the circle completes and you are alone again.

Essay 4

For my essay #4 I am going to have to pick a new topic. None of my topics for Essays 1-3 have any relation to social issues in the book Misery. My first two Essays were on the topic of technology in the medical field. My essay 3 was on mandatory HIV testing. The social issues raised in Misery are mental illness, the failure of our justice system, survival instincts, and post traumatic stress. In my novel one of the main characters was a nurse but I just don't see how the topic "is technology beneficial or detrimental in the medical field," an actual social issue raised. The failure of our justice system would give me a lot to write about because there are so many people that don't go to jail when they should have. There are also those that go to jail but don't get a long enough sentence, get out, repeat the crime or commit a different one, go back, get out, and repeat the same pattern. This just causes there to be more and more victims. Survival instincts would be something interesting for me to research. It can be amazing what people will do to survive. I recently watched the movie "127 Hours" which was based on a true story. A man was rock climing and fell into a hole where his arm was caught underneath a bolder. This man stayed there for about 5 days before he broke his own arm and cut it off with a dull pocket knife. I don't think I would ever be able to do this! You never know what you would do to survive if your life actually depended on it. Post traumatic stress syndrome would also make for interesting research. I am going to chose one of these three but I have not made my final decision yet.

Essay 4 Scramble

As of right now, my only idea for essay 4 would be to either extend on my second essay or to write about one man starting a dictatorship like in the book that we're reading in class. The only problen with extending on my first essay is I've already used most of my ideas in the paper already. I might consider broadening the topic of Gambling in Texas to Gambling worldwide to fit more information into the essay. On the other hand, Under the Dome has a good conflict of a man who tries to take an entire town over a time of crisis. I'm pretty sure most of the people can relate to the subject, but its alot to fit in a six page paper. I'm to indecisive and haven't made up my mind on what to write about. It just seems so much easier to write one page rather than six.

Ideas for essay 4

My novel of choice was Dolores Claiborne. Theres a ton of different issues in this novel so it makes it sort of easy to pick. I'm leaning more towards the spousal and child abuse. It's an interesting topic and it is something real that happens all the time, unfortunatly. I wrote about domestic abuse in my essay 3 and i enjoyed looking into the facts about it and what there is to do to help, so I'm sure this topic will be just as interesting to me.

Under The Dome #4

Andy Sanders has been thinking of his dead family and doesn't want to resort to killing himself, so he tries to find an alternate solution. A group of people, mainly Rust Everett, go down to the funeral home to investigate ther murders of several people. Rusty finds that Lester Coggins head had lumps with stitches that looked as though it were from a baseball that he had noticed in Jim Rennie's house. Rusty could also prove that Barbie is innocent through the time in wich Brenda Perkins was last seen on the day of the food riot. Rusty confronted Big Jim about the murder victims and how he knew what he had done, but Big Jim had officers waiting to have him arrested. Big Jim had Julia Shumway's Democrat press office burned to the ground, and also had some of the officers on a loud speakers framing Barbie's friends for doing so. Andy Sander's makes plans for the Chef to kill him, but actually makes friends and ends up smoking meth with him and following what the Chefs plans are. A group of people plan to break Barbie and Rusty out of jail before Big Jim executes them. Before Rusty had gotten sent to jail he and few other people went to go find the genorater or source to the dome. What he found was a strange box that had radiation from a distance but not up close to the source, and he thinks it's powering the dome. Many of the members of the town are grouping up with the cops and Big Jim. Colonel Cox calls Big Jim to tell him there is a press conference regarding his actions and threatens to put him in jail when the dome is gone unless he gives up his power, but Big Jim pays no attention to him. Junior has some trouble gaining conciousness and gets sent to the hospital and finds out he has a brain tumor. A huge Airplane crashes into the dome because someone forgot to re-program the computer to an alternate route. Colonel Cox holds a press conference previous of the one thats at the dome, regarding the press conference at the dome and a few other questions. A group of people are going to make a prison break for Barbie and Rusty with one of Big Jim's Old vans at the car lot, and they plan to hide them out at the generator of the dome. Andrea ends up finally finding the VADER file that Brenda left at her house the day she died. Jim Rennie needs some propane from Chef who wo'nt give it to him, so he arranges to go to war with them to get propane, meanwhile the rest of the town would be at the press conference. Social Issues: Slander, Suicide, Dictatorship, Blackmail

Essay 4 for the novel

My novel is about 'Misery' and the name speak for its self. My essay four seem to be leaning onto expanding essay three. A major issue written in the essay 3 was the abuse of children in a domestic violence of a home. They are torn in the objective meaning of the word mother and father. In the novel it has a similar characteristics except that it only involves the victim and abuser. It would reflect how the different mines of people in coping with reality, and the survival instinct to live regardless of the circumstances . Annie, she has a need to kill and heal the people needed to help, being she was in the nurse profession. As for Paul, he is more focus in surviving to finish a book regardless knowing he could die after the novel is done. Then he does little things in between to be ready for confrontation and to stay alive to get out.

Ideas for Essay 4

I am not sure what I am going to make my essay 4 about yet. My novel was Dolores Claiborne and its not like there aren't a ton of social issues in that novel, I am just not sure which I am going to pick. I thought about going with like alcaholism or spousal abuse but both of those issues seem to common or too easy to pick and while both of them would be easy to write about and easy to find sources, I don't think it would be interesting to read about it. Again. So with that said I am leaning towards writing my essay on the social issues dealing with elderly abuse in nursing homes and elderly abuse with caretakers. I know that also is an overused subject as well but I think it will be more interesting for me to research because I personally do not know alot on the subject myself. While Dolores didn't abuse Vera,( it was more the other way around) it still brought to my mind that particular issue, so that I believe, is what I will be writing my essay on. I might throw in a couple more issues also.