hw 30

i decided to focus on alienation while sick and how when people are in the hospital or they are dying, they are left alone with no family.

a resource that i had was my own life and how my family alienates others until that person is on very ill and in the hospital. Another source i looked at was the movie that we saw called near death. The part that struck me the most was the part when the elderly woman passed away in the hospital bed while her family was on their way to see her.

on the internet i researched alienation and it was always something about p.a.s which was parental alienation. I then saw something about karl Marx's theory and it spoke about how alienation is when we separate ourselves from the things that matter.

The way i carried out this project was that i went to go visit the member of my family that we alienate the most which was my aunt. The reason why we alienate her is unknown but it definitely has something to do with the fact that she is ill and so is her husband. It makes me think that we alienate them because theyare sick and we dont want to have that site around us but my family isnt like that. i guess i really don't know why we leave them out of family events. I actually enjoyed seeing her but it was very awkward for me because i was just sitting in her living room not really doing much. i did realize though that she didnt have any new things in her house and she still smiled. i wondered did her lack of knowledge on all the new things our family has gone through made her happier. She seems at peace witht he situation that she is in. she calls my grandma alot and it seems that she doesnt mind being alone. it gives her more time to be with her husbandand to relax. I think being alienated really isnt so bad afterall. MAybe she prefers it. I use to feel so bad for her and the fact that we dont visit her ad i still do feel bad but she seems to not mind.

i relaized and i learned from visitng my aunt that maybe alienation to some may be the worse feeling for some people but alienation may also bring some benefits as well such as tranquility and happiness. I feel tha being alienated is in some cases very positive and the best part of the day for people. on the other hand i learned that younger people do not like the feelin of alienation. One person i spoke to hated being alone and that person would always be sad and depressed. I realized that people who are alienated at younger ages seem to hate it and become depressed. As for older people they don't mind it because their whole life was spent having social interactions with others and this was their moment to enjoy being alone and just relaxed. So being alienated isn't a bad feeling.

This shows that when people are ill and elderly, they usually like to be alone. They also become more joyous and they learn to love life more.

this matters because it is imporant to realize that sometimes people need to be alone and it is not a bad thing. Also the reasons why we may alienate someone is because we feel ashamed or afraid to reconnect with someone. alienation can lead to happiness though because it can make someone do things that they want to do.

hw 27

nobody in my family was sick durin this break and I was happy about that because I really hate the way my family gets when someone is sick. I did find out that my aunts husband who is about 70 years old has colon cancer, on top of the fact that he lost his sight a year ago. I remember seeing him so happy and smiling and seeing us in his house. this is the same person who lost all 4 sons and now my aunt has he husband with her and he cannot even function properly anymore. Iris so sad to see someone suffer like that. My uncle now has to go get chemotherapy now. It reminds me of when my mom ha cancer and lost her hair. she was really sick and luckily my brothers an I had family that helped out. Now that he is sick, my aunt is really hurting. If she were to lose him she would be all alone.

one thing that I feel relates to the situation was that he was like Morrie. everytime I saw him he got worse an worse. it sucked to see it but it's like everyone in my family i going to go through a situation like that. I don't think he will ever smile or laugh again. he cannot even see his own wife and it is so sad but she Is really strong because she manages to still be happy everyday and she reminded me of the guest speaker that we had. I mean it wa sad that she lost her husband but she seemed to cope with the loss. I think that my aunt is going to be ok though because in my family, deaths are very common

I remember when he came to my house maybe around the summer time. He wasn't really sick then. He was blind and had a cane and didn't know who anyone was because he couldn't see us. I felt so ba because all he did was sit in a corner and when I went to say hi to him he didn't know who I was and he didn't smile. It's like he gave up on life. No matter how he is, my family refuses to call him or invite him places, even though we can all easily pick them up or bring them over since they live 6 blocks away. I find it upsetting because my family won't realize that him and my aunt are family too. I felt really upset and couldn't believe what happened to him in a matter of a year and a half. I think ever since his last son passed away he started to deteriorate.