Timothy Shay Arthur’s “Ten Nights in a Bar-Room” is a novel filled with unfortunate events that change the lives of many families. It illustrates the lives of a few men, who were once proper gentlemen, but transformed into undesirable people due to intemperance. Their stories demonstrate how destructive alcohol was to their lives, not only for them, but for their families as well. One of the characters that immediately caught my attention was Joe Morgan. Joe went from being an enviable father and husband, and even Mr. Slade’s former business partner, to the town drunk and an absent father. His mother warned him about his fate if he continued to drink, like his own late father, but he felt that a few drinks would not cause any issues. Little did he know that a few drinks would turn into endless nights of drinking, and the biggest tragedy of his life; the death of his daughter. His daughter, worried sick about him, went to look for him at the tavern so they …show more content…
The alcohol did not just affect the individual drinking it, but their families, friends, and the community as a whole. Although alcohol did play a huge role in the decline of Cedarville, I believe that Timothy Shay Arthur had a larger message for his audience. Parental neglect played the bigger role in the tragedies that occurred. If Joe Morgan had not turned to alcohol, his daughter Mary would have never been at the bar the night of her accident. If he had only stayed home with his family, she would have never had a glass thrown at her head. Simon Slade, only worrying about his bar and newly accumulated wealth, pays no attention to his children. With no guidance, his son Frank falls into alcoholism and his daughter Flora has to deal with the corruption in the bar, which must have been very disturbing for a pure young woman like
The book A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 touches upon many of the social, political, religious and economical changes that occurred in Rochester, New York from1815 to 1837.The author Paul E. Johnson, organizes the data collected into sections to help the reader better understand certain aspects of the different stages of the revival. He starts the book off with a man named Charles Finney traveling down the Erie Canal to the town of Rochester, NY. The Erie Canal places Rochester, NY in the center of the trade markets, which in turn pushes the town’s craftsmen to develop a new style of business. This new form of business is one of starting points of the revival as the change is business led to
This conflict between Miniver and his hereditary drinking habits developed a theme of being cautious about heredity. Another example of this conflict happens in “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin when Chopin describes Mrs.Mallard as “afflicted with a heart trouble” that eventually leads to her untimely death when her husband surprises her using the fact that he still lives but she thinks he died (Chopin 1). The plot escalates due to Mrs.Mallard's conflict with her heart condition. Without the character versus hereditary conflict, the plot becomes non-existent. The conflict also helps build a theme of taking better care of hereditary issues.
A Sexy Bad Boy Romance! Everyone at the Rough & Tumble Saloon has a secret… Colin “Buzz” Burton has lived on the outskirts of Vegas for his entire cowboy life, yet in spite of the naughty shenanigans he’s taken part in, he’s never gotten this down and dirty! When Leticia Bravo, a wine consultant who’s ready to shed her cosmopolitan skin for the night, mistakes him for a gigolo, the rancher goes from beer fan to wine lover with a whole lotta sinning in between… This novella has steamy sex and lots of wine. It also includes a brief excerpt from Wet and Wild, a Rough and Tumble series prequel, at the end. The word count is approximately 28,000.
And his life had turned into one fail after the other... Until his sister 's accident and her death... It had been like waking call for him. Or more like an ice-bucket being thrown in his face.
Author – Lynda Hull is the author of the poem “The Night Waitress”. Hull had been developing an impressive career in Literature when she died in a car accident. She was influenced heavily by Hart Crane, she had allegedly memorized his poems, as well as jazz musicians. Hull taught English in many universities and also served as Poetry Editor for a journal.
It could also be what ends his life, and they show that the son was late to see the man in his death bed because he was having a drink at the bar. Coover says “(I went for a beer, Dad, things happened), says he is going to miss him, but it is probably for the best” (Coover 1). This could be foreshadowing the alcoholism that could be in their bloodline due to the man drinking a lot throughout his life. They also showed how it affected the people’s lives around the man. He was an absent father, had several marriages, and cheated on every one of them, even if he did not even mean to.
Her father, Rex, has a severe alcohol addiction that significantly impacts the family’s lifestyle. Rex’s alcoholism leads to emotional instability and frequent, hostile aggression towards his family. One way alcoholism affected Rex, was by causing emotional instability. The article, “Symptoms and help for Alcohol Problems” by author Elisabeth
The character feels an almost bittersweet sensation here due to his father not being there for him in times when he needs him. It is a tragedy that even though he is relieved that his health is in satisfactory condition, his father is not because of his own choices of an unsatisfactory
The Breakfast Club is not in fact a movie about bacon 'n eggs. It’s a coming of age film about five coincidentally different teenagers all linked together by one common element, Saturday detention. At first, they are all close-minded and judgmental of each other until coming to realize they may be from different circles of friends but are not so different in the end. This film is still remarkably relatable to this day. Everyone in this film is in his or her own societal bubbles, but come to understand they are all facing the same problems.
enforcing the Prohibition would decrease crime rates. On the contrary, they increased. Franklin D. Roosevelt pledged to the end the Prohibition. Shortly after, in 1923, the 21st Amendment was put into place. The 21st Amendment repealed the ban on alcohol.
His brothers didn’t agree with his reluctance to stand up to Yeh-yeh. He grows more and more weary as time passes and his former love and wife both die. Both of these deaths could have possibly been prevented if he had only spoken out against his grandfather’s demands and defied the system. His wife dies during the birth of their second child. There was this superstition that his elders believed in called the “bloodglow”.
Slade’s major problem was that she suppressed her jealousy for years, and let it all blow up in one instant. Despite the spiteful years of her bottled up jealousy, Mrs. Slade was unpleasantly surprised by the quiet outburst of Mrs. Ansley. Their ongoing rivalry led to a miserable conclusion for Mrs. Slade more than it did Mrs. Ansley. The two women had always competed with one another.
An example is the lack of natural plant life near or in the bar when Joe Morgan is there being highlighted by the cottage he has at the end which is sprinkled with greenery. This could be a sign of the slow renewal of a natural life for Joe Morgan amongst all the decay in the neighborhood. Similarly, the wrinkles that Joe Morgan has at the end seem to represent accumulated wisdom. From this, if the rest of the evidence in the book matches, I can see that Shay did not see drinking as totally bad. Drinking can be a struggle one goes though and comes out wiser as an individual.
“Don’t let our modern society shape who you are and don’t allow stereotypes to define you. Live outside of labels we so often stick upon ourselves and allow your individuality to change the world around you.” (unknown). This quote by an unknown person shows how you shouldn’t allow the modern stereotypes of gender define or affect you because men and women can have just as much self control as the other. In the short story “The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner, a colonel official and his wife are throwing a large dinner party with multiple people of high social standings from army officers to government attaches.
He also knows not to tell on his mom’s drinking problem, which he denotes as her “illness”, to his father, in order not to get her into trouble. At the same