Deborah's Parents example essay topic

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden The cold tone of this story starts out right in the beginning and her mother and father are quite distraught because of the daughter's illness and the fact that they must trust the doctors; they seem to not trust anyone. They even told their own family that Deborah is at convalescent school, not a mental institution. Of course the time period of the book is much earlier than now so it is more understandable why they were upset. Hopefully parents now are less ignorant and would try and be proud of their child to willingly get help. It would be too harsh however to say that Deborah's parents did not do the best that they could, they just did not even realize that their daughter was mentally sick.

They didn't even know that her peeing herself was the result of a tumor. I can say that the way that they treated her for that was wrong. At least they feel bad or that it is their fault. I think that much more of the blame needs to be placed on the parents, contrary of what Dr. Fried stated. It is the responsibility of the parents to protect and nurture their children, not to physically punish what it not right. Dr. Fried is a nice women.

It is interesting that she was in Nazi Germany. Deborah and her family are Jewish and I feel that this is an important tie. Dr. Fried in able to make progress with Deborah and gain her trust. Dr. Robson has to treat Deborah for awhile when D. Fried is away. He is a much colder person and seems more concerned with proving Deborah wrong than actually getting into her personality and mind frame the way Dr. Fried did.

Most of the other people who work in the hospital seem like they are just there to do their job. Dr. Fried, however, seems to be genuinely concerned about her patients. For some reason, there end up being a few folks that inmates or patients constantly torment: Hobbs, who commits suicide, and Ellis, who replaces Hobbs. Deborah tells one of the orderlies that Hobbs and Ellis are just like the patients and that it were all the harassing comes from. MacPherson sets her straight by telling her that some people cannot afford to get help for their problems. I found the other patients very intriguing.

They were constantly changing, new one coming in, some getting well and leaving only to return later on. Deborah and another girl even escaped but they just walked around and went back. At least they did not receive a punishment or lose privileges. That must be the worst thing with being in a mental hospital, especially in the Disturbed Ward were there are no visitors allowed. It is strange how they interact with each other; they want any human contact, yet they are almost all afraid of it. Miss Coral was a favorite of mine in the story because she is one of the toughest and fierce.

She also takes the time to teach Deborah two different languages: Latin and Greek. It is also interesting how the arrival and departure of various patients affects all of the others. When someone makes it, they have hope. But, when someone returns, like Doris Rivera, it makes someone question the hope that they had when the person left in the first place. After a while, Deborah becomes an out patient and lives in a room with Mrs. King. She is one of the few people in the town that did not look down on or fear the patients from the hospital.

The imaginary world of Yr is the most interesting part of this book. This girl has serious hallucinations and delusions. The intense and strange world of Yr is Deborah's escape from the cruel real world. Yr is not very forgiving either.

It was a nice and beautiful place in the beginning, but as she grew more dependant, Yr changed. The "Censor" came to protect Yr from being exposed after Deborah wrote Jan uce on one of her school papers. The Gods of Yr were constantly belittling and trying to scare Deborah into staying there. The Gods made threats of "insanity" because she was not one of them (meaning a person from earth).

Deborah was scared of them but she had some realizations that allowed her to persevere. One of the big realizations was when she finds out that Dr, Fried could not have killed her baby sister. The good doctor tells her that she would have been much to small to have been holding Suzi in the basinet outside of a window. This helps her see that she is not nearly a threat to people as she once was, believing that she was poisoned and poisonous as well.

Another big thing she finds is a book with a picture of Anterrabae. Seeing this makes her realize that he was not a creation of hers, just something she remembered. Deborah's is a story of overcoming adversity. She had the tumor at a young age.

Even after the tumor was removed and she stopped wetting herself, her father seemed to resent her as damaged goods. He believed that she attracted the wrong kind of men: perverts. On top of everything, she is ridiculed by her peers for being Jewish. Many actions and events caused this girl a lot of hardship, which influenced the retreating into her own imaginary world to protect herself from the real world. Nothing was mentioned in the end as to if she makes a full recovery. I was proud of her when she began to realize that she could help herself.

She decided to stop burning herself and she began reaching out and having feelings towards the other patients. She even began to know when the "punishment" would be coming from Yr and asked for the restraints to be prepared for her because another episode was coming. Deborah's internal will and her great perceptiveness was most likely the main reason she started to succeed. Dr. Fried's relationship with her also played a large role in Deborah's recovery.

Living in the real world at Mrs. Kings and studying to pass the GED may seem like typical thing for most, but this was a huge accomplishment for Deborah. After the last psychotic episode, She wakes up and begins to study. She tells the gods of Yr that she is giving up Yr for good. They remind her of all of the pain that exists because of the "real world."Full weight", she said.

I think that Deborah is a smart person with a powerful imagination, who makes it through some very real problems. I feel that some of the blame should be directed towards the parents, but I also realize that they have their own problems. Also, this story takes place during a very different time than that we live in today. Hopefully, our society is educated to understand that sometimes there are situations above our own control. We then must look to the medical profession to provide answers to the questions we have.