The Other House

I want to be with her.” “She went back home.” “Back home, this is her home. Where did she go?” His tears quickly turned to anger. “Joe you have to promise me that you’ll calm down; we have to get ready to leave.” “Leave, leave where?” The kid simply didn’t understand that he wasn’t free. He didn’t understand that he was one of us now. Now that his father was dead and had died before he could finish writing his and his sister’s free papers. He laid on my arm and began to cry some more. Then he suddenly looked up and asked, “What about Grandma and Uncle Jake?” Uncle Jake, the way he said it made my stomach turn, he referred to him as uncle Jake because he simply didn’t know why he was living in the house. “We have to go away for a while, but they’ll be right here when we get back.” A little lie because god knows what grandma and Uncle Jake would do to us once they found out Rufus wasn’t coming back around. “Are you okay now?” I asked. “Yeah I guess so.” He replied, wiping the tears off of his wet face. “Alright I have to do something. Just stay with Carrie, Sarah, and my boys and do exactly what they tell you to, okay?” “Okay I will,” He said. I got up and walked out of the…

up my classes to be a bit easier in my first year of high school, as to allow some time for an adjustment period; and I do love occupational ed classes. So I decided to sign up for drama tech. Drama tech is an entire class dedicated to all technical aspects of theatre, such as building and painting the sets, advertising, running sound and lighting equipment, among other things. This class was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. The freedom and responsibility that this class gives you is…

while Cheryl attempts to embrace her heritage but she struggles with the issues of which come from this. They both had aspects of their life that were good and had they been there for each other, been upfront and honest with each other, and had the support that has only recently become so readily available, the results would not have been as devastating as they had been. April is a common representation of a Metis woman in modern day society. After growing up with parents who were far from…

He isn’t—the concept of this mirror phase is simply more applicable in other stages of life, rather than just between 6-18 months. He actually touches on this broadness, though not in the same direct manner, saying that “[i]t suffices to understand the mirror stage […] as an identification, in the full sense analysis gives to the term” (Lacan 76). He himself is defining this stage of development as a manner of identification. Mirriam-Webster defines that word as a “psychological orientation of…

depression is characteristic of the ‘self as other’, as s/he proceeds along the tightrope to a childlike truth negating immutability. This does not function the same as an ‘self for other’ uncertainty, one which causes her/him to falter along the tightrope moving away from an adult reality remonstrating certainty. The distancing of forces happening within a will turned in against itself, crystallizes a part of the ‘self as the other’, along the intersubjective axes of ‘self-talk’: ‘who I am,’…

else.’ with this quote constantly running through my mind, I personally understood what Madrid meant when he said that the Other”results in us feeling excluded, or even disdained and scorned.” As a child I always felt as if I played the role of the other. I was different in ways such as loving to learn, and being an overly outgoing person with different points of view, and as a result; I found that other children were quick to single me out of their groups. Very few ever accepted…

The Smell of Other People's Houses: No one knows yourself like you do In The Smell of Other People's Houses an old woman's tells Hanks “Nobody knows what it's like to be you. Nobody! Do you hear me? (Hitchcock 67).” This old woman was telling Hank that no one else knows what he has been through like he does. I do believe in this statement because, we have all been told to not judge someone before we walk a mile in their shoes. Everyone can learn from this, we all judge people or try not…

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a German Film Director who has worked on several short films before this movie. The Lives of Others is the first film that Donnersmarck had written, directed and won an oscar in 2006 for being the best foreign-language film. This film works in Germany, around 1984, while Germany was still split into 2 parts; East Germany and West Germany. The film depicts how the environment was like in Germany at this point of time and how one side is better than the other…

I come from a divorced family. I have hateful parents, not towards me, but towards each other. I can’t stand it, the way they look at each other, the way they talk or act towards each other just irks me. I don’t blame my mother for ditching my father, who could? He was a dirty old, good-for-nothing, scumbag. Since he has left us, he hasn’t even given my mother and I a second thought. Since the divorce, I usually go to my father’s apartment on the weekend. The only reason I visit him is because…

a cage,’ Gary, Rae’s father, said to Antonello, as the two men stood on the veranda, looking over the back garden, watching as Alex stuffed the green waste into the bin, pressing down with his hands first and then climbing into the bin and stomping and stamping on the broken twigs and branches, on the leaves and grasses, like his ancestors once stamped on grapes to make wine. There had been no contact with Jo or her mother. No card. No apology. Antonello considered going to Jo’s house and…