As my childhood went on, there was a secret that my family wasn't telling me. As a little kid, visiting my uncle Dave's house, I noticed that their was something wrong with his eye. When I asked my parents about this discovery, they insisted that he had been in a motorcycle accident several years before. I took this statement as the truth, as he did have a motorcycle at the time, and it was an answer that seemed to fit the situation. The summer before the start of my sophomore year of high school, I received the truth about Dave's eye. My parent sat me down, and began to tell me the story of how my uncle Dave tried to commit suicide. The story goes back to Dave's first marriage, and the moments after his divorce, in times of depression, he tried to take his own life. He took his pistol, which he owned to protect himself from burglars, and shot himself in the side of his face. Luckily, the bullet went through his right eye, which is the main reason why he is still alive today. I now understand why my parents lied to me about this experience, as this would been a very hard thing to understand as a young child. I would have asking questions every minute I saw him, to try and understand the full process behind it. This was a huge moment of my life, as I was informed of the full truth behind a close relative in my family. This story closely relates to the lie told in the Ocean at the End of the Lane, as the narrator goes through the lie of his father eating burnt toast. While my story is about a serious matter in life compared to the narrator's, both stories share the common theme, a lie told from someone close to us. After finally hearing the truth behind this story, I feel our relationship has grown to new levels, as I feel more appreciative for his presence in this world.
At the beginning of the film, two individuals, a older man, and a teenage girl enter an elevator. Once in the elevator, the teenage girl begins listening to music off her cellphone aloud. The older man notices the music and decides to listen to his own music off his phone aloud. Once stopping at a floor, a women enters and begins listening to her own music off her phone, as the individuals did before her. The process continues until the whole elevator is about full. Towards the end of the film, a man enters the elevator with a boom box, and begins setting up his box to play music. All of the individuals stop their music, as the man looks around wanting them to stop the playing of their music. The man then inserts a headphone and begins listening to his music. The people in result are shocked and few even laugh to notice they can't hear the man's music. The author's purpose of the article, to inform everyone on their decisions of respect. It's rude to listen to musi...
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