Are We Alone?

In a world with 6.97 billion people, how is it possible to be alone? We may know a lot of people who care for us and love us, but at the end of the day we stand alone. People are greedy and selfish; they think about themselves and how they might benefit from something. No one thinks about the other, and even if they do they are not always here on earth forever. We are born into this world to fight and fend our own battles.

At times it may seem as though a person is trustworthy and he or she is going to be with you throughout the roller coaster of your life. We humans like to hope for something bigger and better; we are taught to see the best in people. When we realize that the nature of people is to be nasty and selfish we also learn not to trust them. We learn to live by ourselves without depending on anyone.

People in our lives are like clothes they come and go. We cannot trust a person to stay by our side throughout our life, because their life may not be as long as ours. We learn from our mistakes on our own, and eventually we also learn to live and stand on our own. We may trust a person, but sooner or later he or she goes far away; away from you, away from your problems. We might say to a friend do not worry we will talk on skype every night, but how long does the promise really last? Eventually the distant becomes bigger and bigger, making it impossible for the two to trust or be there for each other. We come into this world alone and soon learn that we are going to be alone.

Title :Landlord finds mentally disabled people locked in basement; 3 arrested

By: Sarah Hoye

Published: October 17, 2011 accessed October 18, 2011

Four mentally disabled people were held captive in a basement of an apartment building. Gozleveli the building janitor found the four in a room with human waste surrounding them. In the room there were blankets, pillows and a jug of juice, however, the four did not know where it all came from. He said that they looked malnourished and acted childlike. The three suspects were accused of stealing the victims social security checks and putting the mentally ill in the basement. The four suspects have a history of being involved in criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment. The seven, the victims and the suspects were traveling together, but did not know for how long. When the four mentally ill were found in the basement they were taken to the hospital. The FBI and other authorities are still working to get to the bottom of this case.

Vocab:

Tenants- he thought one of his tenants was attempting to conceal a dog,

Definition/origin -From old french word literally meaning holding comes from the latin word tenere

A person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord

- When the tenants were asked to pay their rent for the month , they simply refused.

Sinister- Turgut Gozleveli found somthing much more sinister

Definition/origin-comes from the latin word sinistre which means left

giving the impressions that something harmful or evil is happening or has happened

- There is something sinister about teachers in school overloading their students with homework during the weekend.

Disheveled- The four were in a room roughly 10 feet by 15 feet, Gozleveli said, and looked malnourished and disheveled.

Definition/Origin- From old French word descheveler to disarrange hair

hanging loosely or in disorder

-Most of my mornings are destroyed when I look at my by the look of my disheveled hair.

Connection to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest the mental patients live in the ward, under the supervision of Nurse Ractchet. Though the four mentally in the article are disabled they not live in a ward they are in captive, like the metal patients in the ward. Some of the patients are committed life McMurphy others have a choice of leaving but do not leave. The patients in the basement are like the patients in the ward who are committed, they do not have a choice to leave, they have to just hope and have to wait for someone to rescue them. McMurphy who is considered a Christ figure in the novel saves the lives of the patients; just like the janitor who comes and rescues the mentally ill in Philadelphia. The four mentally ill in the article are described as acting childlike. This is similar to the chronics in the ward who need help to get from place to place and are in wheel chairs; they get fed by an aide, like a child gets fed by his mother.