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¶ … girlfriend's house a couple weeks ago, her little brother Tommy got sent home from middle school for "inappropriate behavior" (fighting). We were surprised because he never gets in fights. When their parents came home from work, he had to tell them what happened. He was in the lunchroom when a friend of his, for a joke, took his glass which had a little bit of water in the bottom of it and threw it in Tommy's face. Tommy was suddenly so angry that he knocked his friend down on the floor and had to be pulled off of him! When he told his parents, he started to cry and said he didn't know why he reacted like that over something so stupid.
People used to believe that conscious awareness was all there was to a person. But then Sigmund Freud came along in the early 20th century and changed this whole view. He discovered that conscious awareness is not all there is, that there is another deeper layer of consciousness, which he named the unconscious mind. He said it contains all our repressed impulses and desires. Usually, we "repress" things...
We don't know we are repressing, we just forget and then forget that we forgot. But what we forgot isn't gone -- it is stored in the unconscious part of our mind. Although the waking mind is unaware of what lies in the unconscious, the unconscious mind is actually quite powerful, and the things we do are often determined by what's in the unconscious. A lot of what is stored there is early childhood experiences. Freud made up a metaphor to picture the unconscious. He said it is like an iceburg in the ocean with only the tip (or upper 10%) visible. The rest (the unconscious) is "under water" and hidden. But the hidden part is always active and trying to make sense of everything.
When Tommy said he didn't know what came over him, his mother got a funny look on her face. She said, "I think I know." Then she told him that when he was a baby, between two and a half (he was learning to talk), one day he wanted her to get him a drink of water. She was on the other end of their…
Smith hates the Igbo faith so much that he equates it to the Baal and the followers of Baal in the Biblical Old Testament. He has strict policy over conversion to Christianity such that any elder to decides to get converted to Christian faith must immediately abandon the traditional ways and follow Christianity only. His cruelty and strictness to the abandoning of all Igbo traditional ways is seen when he
The audience has the feeling that O'Brian is presenting them with significant and personal stories from his life. This slowly but surely makes readers feel that they too are connected to the war and to the narrator. It sometimes seems that O'Brian also addresses present day issues in the book, not just happenings from the war. The bond between him and the audience is strengthened through this technique because people
Things Fall Apart Hubris and the Suicide of Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart This novel by Chinua Achebe was first published in 1958. Set on the continent of Africa this is the story of Okonkwo, a member of the Umuofia clan, one of nine villages of a tribe in Nigeria. Okonkwo is an esteemed tribesman who, despite the stigma of his cowardly father who died in disgrace leaving many unsettled
Therefore, Okonkwo rejected his father, and hence, the womanly element of himself. He turned out to be a leading wrestler and warrior in his people to make available the facilities of life for his family at a very small age. Simultaneously, he established a new farm and began to collect his own riches, and ultimately a name. His uphill struggle confirms itself in his victory, and he rapidly became
" (O'Brien, Chapter 15, pg. 143) Norman Bowker is a disillusioned person because he feels that his service in the war has been meaningless. The quote speaks a lot about what he feels about the people of his town. He has just returned from his tour of duty in Vietnam where he witnessed a lot of bloodshed and violence, which has left deep wounds in his soul. Bowker has gone through
For this reason, he is a tragic hero according to Aristotle's definition of the word. Aristotle believed tragedies must "imitate actions which excite pity and fear" (Aristotle). This involves the hero to suffer a change, which usually means going from good fortune to misfortune through the course of the story. Like real life, all things are not all good or all bad. Aristotle believed "misfortune is brought about not by