Ripple Effect In The Story Of Tom Brennan

Flashbacks to Tom’s previous rugby games with his brother re-affirm the loss he feels towards his old life. Tom feels the need to have everything the way it once was, and Coghill can’t replicate the joy he found in the endless afternoon training sessions with Daniel and his father, nor the adulation of the local community.

Tracy Rimes, a young high school student, had been horribly injured in a car wreck. His mother, also an EMT, is there, along with several other volunteer fire fighters. His sister is there too. She is only a year younger than Tracy and attends school with her. Tracy’s father is there, who was once the chief of the department. The location of the accident is Jabowski’s corner, which is named after the family who owns the farm at that bend of the road. He goes into precise details of the scene, pulling you into the story and leaves the imprint of just how close this community is. “… she is delicate, and frightened, and conscious, and most of all, she is one of us.”(p. 12). Everyone is somehow, someway connected with one another in this small town. When tragedy strikes, these people can set aside their differences, team up and come together as a community, for their community. Michael is doing the same line of work as he did while he was gone, only now he does it with meaning and with passion. The constant is doing what he loves, the difference is doing it for “his people” and in the place he belongs.

This powerful characteristic that transitional phases possess have the potential to be a rewarding experience, as they provide an individual with the opportunity for growth and knowledge development through newfound relationships. In ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’, Tom exhibits this through his bond with Chrissy following the dark trauma he endures caused by his brother Daniel. Initially, Tom feels detached from his own identity as he refers to himself in third person “I missed…simple Tom Brennan”, emphasising his deteriorated mental state. However, the relationship he forms with Chrissy is instrumental in his recovery as he begins to find himself again. His passionate tone in “Today I kissed Chrissy Tulake, I felt like Tom Brennan” epitomizes how this bond empowers him to assert a stronger sense of personal identity. Burke, therefore, is able to reveal how transitional

Good afternoon teachers and fellow students. Today I will be speaking about how J.C. Burke represents transitions in “The Story of Tom Brennan” that challenges characters values and attitudes. The story of Tom Brennan is about rugby, mates and family until a night of celebration changes his life forever. Tom Brennan’s world is turned upside down when his older brother Daniel is sent to jail and the family are forced to leave the small town that they have lived in their whole life, which makes it hard for Tom as he has lived in the town with his close mates in rugby forever. I have read and studied The Story of Tom Brennan by J.C. Burke, and have also read online about it to gain a better understanding of this text.

The novel describes the journey of the protagonist Tom Brennan as he struggles to overcome a car accident caused by his brother, Daniel. Which left his cousin Fin quadriplegic, killed two friends and caused Tom's family to move from Mumbilli to Coghill. Tom’s view towards certain topics are challenged as he aims to move on from the past. This mainly includes issues about his family and hobbies. Burke uses 1st person and repetition in “maybe after Daniel had done his time we could go back: maybe not “to show how such a move has affected Tom. This also shows him questioning his optimistic personality before the accident and how the change has challenged his belief that his family will be

The Story of Tom Brennan (2005) is a highly acclaimed novel written by JC Burke, about how a Tom Brennan’s life changed dramatically following a tragic road accident being the fault of his older

Looking at this this long-term impact Daniel might start showing these behavioural consequences such as smoking, substance misuse, alcohol, and maybe even start abusing others because this might be a coping mechanism for

Life has a way of throwing of throwing curveballs, but it is up to the individual to deal with it. Some people deal with their problems by drinking and partying, as a way to forget or conceal their pain current or past situations, other people tend to deal with their problems in a more passive way. Imagining an alternate reality, whatever the case may be individuals have different ways of dealing with their issues some are more similar than others. In this essay, I will explain the similarities and differences in between two characters from two established writers, Neddy Merrill from “ Neddy Merrill is an adventurous individual with a certain youth to himself as quoted from “ He might have been compared to a summer’s day, particularly the

Daniel had spent enough time with his parents to begin thinking in a similar, mutinous way as an adult, but he’d also spent enough time with the Lewins to feel their influence too. He both wants to rebel against the ideology his parent taught him and rebel against the normalcy that the Lewins tried to instill in him; he is cornered by his aching desire to be nothing and everything all at once. Living in the shadow of his parents leaves him feeling stripped of his ability to create his own identity. Naomi Morgenstern writes:

Birds usually build nests in order to maintain a family and welcome their new born birds. They both cooperate by scaring predators, searching for food and feeding the littles to bring a safe environment. This routine is made in order for the baby birds to eventually fly by themselves. This is also reflected in humans but a higher level of complexity. Although parents normally make sure to build a relationship with trust to pass it on to their children.

Throughout the novel “The Story Of Tom Brennan” Burke cleverly employs an enormous amount of changes as a result of one tragic event. The event involves

Facing transitions and dealing with dramatic change has a influencing aspect on family and personal relationships, through the text we see the dynamics of relationships and roles of family shift to meet the needs of each individual as they face the challenge of moving in to the world before them. the manner in which the various members of the Brennan family relate to each other, as well as the horrible

The loss of a sibling, a parent's sudden affliction of disease, or the elimination of a family's main source of income are all tragedies that can strike any family at any time. Tragic events like these can and will have negative effects on families and family members, be it financial problems, depression, or stress. Even though family tragedies are sure to result in some form of negative effect, it can also result in beneficial side effects. Within the passage Long Live the King, the author proves this point by giving examples of how personal tragedy has had non-adverse effects on him and his family, specifically the transition of power, discovery of one's identity, and advance into maturity. The author of Long Live the King communicates these beneficial effects that tragedy has had on him through the change of certain titles to show the discovery of identity, extended metaphors to show the transition of power within the family, and change in syntax to demonstrate the maturing of the author.

There are, however, places where Kinsella tightens his focus on how disaster is lived out in personal ways, by highlighting what a calamity can do to people, families. This technique is used to evoke affective responses in the reader – to make a connection. The crest is described to be an “undoer of families”, illustrating the effects of the accidents it can cause on them and which readers can relate to in apersonal way. There is also a type of contrast used by saying how our uncritical enjoyment of the country views we have from the road can be ended, over the crest. The rural landscape and countryside is beautiful with its natural features; hills rolling out into the distance. What lies on the other side of the crest is not beautiful at all.

Grief is a natural response to loss, but grief can also manifest itself as a powerful entity that arises from a negative relationship. Consequently, grief, acting as a negative relationship, can decimate one’s will to live. This is exhibited in Roadwork, which tells the heart wrenching story of Barton Dawes. Three years prior to the novel, Dawes’ son died, but the grief from the loss remains. The grief grows to dominate Dawes’ mind, especially when Dawes is informed of the fate of both his home and his workplace; both are to be destroyed to make room for a highway extension. Dawes, caught up in the emotion of losing his dead child’s childhood home, refuses to leave the house or find a new building for his company. His wife, learning of Dawes’ failure to find a new house, leaves Dawes, who is confronted with a new round of grief. The negative relationships between Dawes, his wife, and his deceased child, only plague Dawes’ will to live. As the time till Dawes will be evicted wanes, he formulates a plan so that he may stay in the home for as long as he lives. On the morning of Dawes’ removal from his home, the police are surprised to find an armed Dawes barricaded within the house. After a tense standoff, Dawes triggers explosives within the house, and the house, Dawes still inside, explodes. Before activating the explosives, Dawes has a short conversation with himself about his motives finally stating, “Let’s see if I get what I need” (King 405). This shows a complete failure