Adam Shepard Reflection

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.

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

Throughout this semester we watched some pretty good movies and read some pretty interesting short stories. They three characters I chose to discuss are Royal Tenenbaum from the movie The Royal Tenenbaums, DJay from Hustle and Flow, and Harrison Bergeron from the short story Harrison Bergeron. The reason I chose these characters to write about was because they all had different struggles with their identity. Some were more obvious but some took a little bit of thought and discussion to fully understand the problem they had.

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.

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

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

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

Charlie Anderson was a man who revolved his whole life around his family. When his youngest son got captured during the civil war, Charlie and his other children went off to look for him while one of his sons and his son’s wife stayed home with their newborn daughter. During the journey, Charlie lost one of his sons to a young Confederate soldier. After that, they were forced to turn around so they could bury the dead son. Once they got back, the doctor stood outside as if he was awaiting their arrival. The doctor told Charlie that the parents of his first granddaughter were murdered during an invasion while the rest were gone looking for Boy. The war practically tore apart the Anderson family. The film begins with Charlie having no hope for the war, having no value in the war. He did not think it was right, and he did not think it was something that he or his family should be participating in. After his son is kidnapped, he decides that the war is valuable. He chooses to join the war in an effort to find his son. At that point, he has a purpose to fight. At the end after his family is tore apart and hurt from the war, Charlie realizes the true meaning of war. He realizes that it is not valuable at all and he also realizes that there is no need to hurt each other because of one disagreement. Charlie values his land and his house almost as much as he values his family. It is something that keeps him going, and something that he is proud of. He also values his freedom and

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.

Adam struggled with a drug addiction early in life. Drugs totally destroyed him, and his relationship with his family. He was no longer the son that Larry and Janice Brown raised. After Adam met Kelley, he started to make an effort to turn his life around. Adam became a totally different person. He became someone that the world could admire and look up to.