Adam Shepard Reflection

Some people adjust to their changing lives better when there is someone there beside them going through the same things. This is what happened for Taylor and Lou Ann. Taylor moved in with Lou Ann when she came to Arizona and they begin to change each others life for the better. Taylor teaches Lou Ann about confidence, and standing up for herself. Lou Ann teaches Taylor how to adjust to her new surroundings in Arizona, and together they form a bond that makes their changing lives easier to tolerate.

Although Adam achieved his American Dream, he did not always live a perfect or ideal life. Adam had his dark days. He strayed from his morals and values, got himself into major trouble, and it took tough love to get Adam to snap out of the dazed state he was living in. According to the Author, “But then he started slipping…” On page 48, after Adam quit college, his family knew something was up with him. They ended up making Adam take a drug test and discovered that Adam was “positive for cocaine, marijuana, and amphetamines,” (Blehm 50). Adam felt horrible about the drugs, he knew that they were wrong. He apologized to his parents, promising that it would never happen again; however, Adam had made empty promises. He continued to aid his addiction by stealing money from his own parents. On page 51, after finding out about what Adam was doing, Janice and Larry confronted Adam about the problem, only to have him disappear. They did not give up on Adam, they knew that the old Adam was still in there, and they believed that eventually he would get over his addiction.

Throughout his journey, Adam thinks about a few people who are important to him: his father and mother (whom he has mixed memories of, some pleasant, others not as much) and Amy Hertz, his girlfriend. Oh, and sometimes he sings "The Farmer in the Dell." (Rebecca Black wasn't around in the '70s to get stuck in people's heads). Adam also encounters a string of individuals, some stranger than others, who each interact with him in a unique way.

When Holden looks back at the time spent with Allie, he is happy, but it also makes him lonely in the phony world that he lives

The lesson that the story is teaching the reader is that you never know who is going to change your life. In the

Fate has other plans for the pair after their passionate night in the hotel. Kelsey ends up staying in Wyoming while she is working towards avenging the deaths of her family members. She puts out word that she needs a private security guard and Adam answers the call. After a whirlwind mission overseas, the pair continue to grow closer as they both deal with their individual hardships and discover that weathering the storm together is preferable to being alone.

In this aritcle, Begley’s overall point and emphasis dictates that she believes that money can’t buy happiness unless if you are going from a poor economic standpoint to a middle class standpoint. Begley points out that moving from a low class to a middle class comes with plenty of benefits, but once that threshold is surpassed, the overall continuity of a persons happiness tends to stagnate. A point that stood out to me is the quote from Daniel Gilbert, which states “ Americans who earn $50,000 per year are much happier than those who earn $10,000 per year, but Americans who earn $5 million per year are not much happier than those who earn $100,00 per year.” The reason I believe in this so much is due to the fact that I have personally seen

They both can’t figure out what’s happening to them. Adam shouldn’t even be alive. Anderson doesn’t care about going back. Adam accuses Anderson of being a prick and storms off.

Similarly, it seemed as if Holden, too, had given up on living life. Although there were times he hated the corruption found in humanity, he was still inevitably drawn to people. This was precisely the complicated relationship that I had the world as well. My inability to fit in was not because I was an outcast with horrendous social skills, but because I did not know how to define myself and thus didn’t know where exactly I was meant to

In the middle of the movie Noah finds out by Allie mother that Allie and her parents want her to go to school in New York. I believe this to be stage five identity vs. identity confusion which happens during the adolescence part of people lives. Allie was trying to figure out who she really was. Allie did everything her parents told her to do because she wanted to please and make them proud of her. When Noah came along I think things changed for her because she was able to be herself around him and she was able to see what she really wanted. I think that trying to be someone for her parents led her to be confused about whom she was and what she wanted. I think that Noah had a better sense of who he was because he had to grow up a lot faster by this I mean he helped his father with the bills and he felt like a responsible adult. When Allie walked into Noah life he knew that he wanted to proved and be with her and let her go and grow in college while he worked. He thought that Allie wanted to go to school closer to where he was so that they can stay together. Yet Allie parents did not want her to be with Noah so they decided for Allie to go away to school in New York and Allie followed what her parents wanted because she was unsure of what she really wanted or how to stand up for it.

Adam was naïve and innocent at the beginning of the novel however that shifts as you read on. He was innocent because as a young boy he didn’t have a care in the world and he always sang the same song “The Farmer in The Dell’. Adam didn’t notice that his family was in grave danger until he heard his parents’ conversation and knew

Emotions and points of view can change throughout a person's experiences and surroundings. Throughout the book the characters change their personalities and the way they think about certain things. One of the characters that showed a different way of thinking from the beginning of the story would be Charlie. He was never the kind of boy who had a lot of friends, was involved with the things that were happening in his life, or was social with everyone around him. This all happened in the transition to high school and maturity.

Steinbeck uses the calm, fresh setting of Salinas Valley to create a distinctive atmosphere. The novel follows the characters and their families in North America. The beginning of the novel consists of an atmosphere in which both Adam Trask and Cathy Ames live in. They both live on the east coast and explore its tenebrous tangibility. Adam lives a life of fear and pain in the east: first in the gruesome and bloody war, and then with his brother Charles. While this is detrimental to Adam, the gloominess and susceptibility of the east coast is perfect for Cathy. She learns that there she can use “ … manipulation [to] gain and keep power over anyone,” (Steinbeck, 75). Eventually, Adam and Cathy meet and Adam falls in love with her. Once Adam tells Cathy that he will take her to California, she is wary and hesitant. Cathy makes it known to Adam that she, “ … didn’t want to [go there],” and that she will not stay in California (Steinbeck, 173). She quietly threatens him that, “As soon

“What did you do? What did you do to my dog, you son of a bitch!”

The story of Eddie Aikau is one of triumph, tragedy, and fate. Before seeing this film, I had absolutely no idea who Eddie Aikau was or what he even accomplished within his life. A Hawaiian legend, Eddie completely changed the game through surfing and will truly live on through the legacy he crafted for himself. The way the filmmaker chooses to tell this story is very unique and allows the audience an inside view into the world Eddie grew up in. Riddled with stylistic devices, this documentary attempts to make the audience connect on a personal level to this amazing story.