Not everyone is the same or handle everything the same when it's comes to different or the same situation. People sometimes run and hide from the situation because they are not good with dealing with or know how to handle it the best way others tends to try and fix it. We run because at time it's the right thing to do this is shown in the movie prince of tide. Every characters has been affect by each other in positive or negative way and has undergo a lot of changes that's crater to their development. Theories and like the Erikson stages, said EThe main characters Tom Wingo has family problems and tried to several things to escaping. Along with the minor characters Savannah Wingo. The Wingo family has suffer an event that is out of the norm …show more content…
The whole nightmare ended when Luke came in with a rifle and shot two of the men. Lila stabbed the third. Lila stabbing the third man in the back is seem to symbolize she a backstabber to her son tom she can’t be trusted because of all the lies and secreted they couldn’t bear. Being rape by another man doesn’t necessary been that he is gay it could be that it is just power wanting another man to feel the humiliate he felt or just want to hurt and humiliate them in general. It’s make them feel more powerful, something the lack. This also set a tone to Erikson stage trust vs. mistrust and intimacy versus isolation. Tom has basically learn who he must trust and not to trust. Tom easily understood why he should distrust; even hate the perpetrators of this crime, they broke in and rape them that is an understandable reason why to not to trust them. Tom didn’t get why his mother would denial it in trying to cope it with her own anguish. Denialing it seem to make tom to consider her self-center. His mother Lila didn’t help much with the healing process she told him not to say anything to his father at
He can’t imagine knowing the man that raped his mother was living around his town like nothing has happened. He can see what Linden took from his mother, her compassion and way of life. He doesn’t want to his mother to live her life in fear and the only thing he can think about is killing the attacker. It is sad though
Right away, he struggles between choosing to go with his wife or to work on his project. The fact that he chooses to stay home proves the need to succeed is stronger than his relationship with his wife. Not only will he spend hours on end for his job, but when a paper flies out the window, he is unable to stop thinking about the amount of work he would be losing if he let it go. With this said, Tom is suddenly fighting the battle to stay balanced, “he hung suspended between balance and falling ” ( ). If he had not been overly obsessed with his work and this paper, he would have been either with his wife at the movies or inside safe, not wondering whether or not he would survive.
But one night, drunk Daniel, ‘an accident waiting to happen’ (Page 34), kills two people and paralyses his cousin, Fin. The accident changes everything for the Brennan’s. For Tom to become an object of hatred and the fact that it was all caused by his brother, Daniel, whom he obeyed and followed like an idol, is tough for him to deal with. What makes it even worse is, his mum is still stuck in her own agony and is of no help.
Melinda feels disturbed by the sexuality of her high school peers, really because she is a victim of sexual violence and yet, she always blamed herself. She feels like if she was doing what she was supposed to, the whole "Rape" thing wouldnt have never happened so she blames herself. She also blames herself because she does not feel ready for this next phase of life. "It happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting.
With time, Tom finds the means through which to cope with his afflictions. It is important to note that Tom suffers a momentary setback when making a present for Daniel however it does not deter him from his goals like it used to. He acknowledges that “once, probably not that long ago, I’m not sure I could’ve [come] back at all” demonstrating his heightened self-awareness. His voice parallels his transition; initially nervous to face his adversities his voice is shaky and nervous, however his eventual emotional maturation allows him to face his future with hope and confidence. Through his heightened self-awareness, he was able to see past his own suffering and contributes significantly in helping others overcome their adversities.
Melinda is raped by an older boy at a party the summer before her freshman year of high school. The impacts of this event are socially and psychologically devastating for Melinda. Her declining mental health renders her physically unable to speak about being raped over the summer. She is unable to cope with her trauma, and forced to suffer alone. However, she eventually becomes empowered to speak up for herself and about her experience.
He encounters the external issue of physically disparity with the people that he get along with, and the internal conflicts between being a man with the characteristic that his father modeled for him or being a unique
He is forced to confront his own hypocrisy when he discovers that the girls accusing people of witchcraft are doing so out of spite and jealousy. He is appalled by their lies, but he must also acknowledge that his own lies and secrets are just as damaging to the community. It is a difficult lesson for him to learn, but it is an important one. He realizes that his own private sins can have public
This would bring him down to reality allowing him to truly gain perspective on his past present and future situations. These moments were his first step to growing and changing after the trauma he felt. The setting was not only crucial to the novel but also to Tommy's change and how he would later
Michael Bauer uses a lot of metaphorical language to describe Tom’s isolation. An
She was reading angry at her brother because he destroys the family making the parent suffer emotional and mental. She explains how the brother addiction turns her house outside down with this attitude. However, the brother addiction makes the parents to never give up on him even though his negative behavior toward them. Parents love him unconditional because it was their son. Even though he was not on the best path, they still support him and be on his side because they believe that he can change.
Jeannette narrowly escapes rape, but because her father exploits her in a way that makes it seem like she would consent to underage sex, she is abused. The sexual abuse Jeannette suffers results in her having more trust in her own intuition as she
Did he tell her that he was sorry for what was happening to her,
The story deals with these issues in the first person through seventeen-year-old Tom Brennan’s eyes. Starting again in a new town and at a new school, how can Tom even begin to rebuild his life when his mother won’t get out of bed, his father is struggling to hold the family together, his sister is threatening to spill the family’s secret, and he can no longer play rugby with his beloved Mumbilli team? They remain a united family, even though they are faced with an extremely complex situation. Joe, Tom’s father, is pulled in many directions but seems to be able to keep calm at all times. He tries to keep Tom interested in rugby, and is very supportive of his wife Tess, who has become almost catatonic from the grief of Daniel being sent to gaol.
The world is a hostile and violent place and the woman had a right to be fearful of him, but it troubles him that he cannot change the fact that he was the cause of this fear. He begins to understand that he has the opportunity to change the enviorment around him solely because of him being a