Denise Dragiewicz

The People Could Fly (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"They enjoy the power high school gives to their fourteen-year-old lives. Blonde hair, blue eyes, and deep matching dimples on the lower parts of both of his cheeks, Josh is the picture of the perfect ninth grade boy. Paul is tall and skinny and has a slight acne-tainted complexion. They push themselves higher as cool, tough, popular guys as they push me down. I sit in front of them in homeroom. There are only three minutes before the bell. They throw insulting notes in paper dripping with saliva in front of my face. I sit there, scared, nervous, sweating. I can feel the September heat swell in my body; it makes my breathing quick and my stomach sick."

When two boys bully Lisa in high school, she withdraws from people who care about her and thinks more and more about suicide. Though she tries to turn to the adults in her life, they are unable to offer any resolution. In winter of her sophomore year, the bullying reaches a climax, and Lisa decides to take her own life. When the attempt fails, she is brought to a psychiatric institution where she meets other girls who have been experiencing emotional trauma. It is here where she comes face-to-face with the demons she has been masking.

Desiring to fly away from worldly misery is a common motif. In the movie Forest Gump, we hear little Jenny pray that God make her a bird so she could "fly, far, far away" from her abusive father. In addition to Lisa, the six characters that struggle with suicidal thoughts feel a similar need to escape from a worldly existence that has been traumatizing. As a result, we hear references throughout the novel that depict the idea of flying as freedom, even though, in their perspectives, this freedom can only be obtained through their deaths.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nature Mandala Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201559199
• Artikelnr.: 63094451

Autorenporträt

DENISE DRAGIEWICZ is the president of Eyes of the World Films, Inc., a nonprofit 501c3 organization, aiming to protect our global ecosystems through education, media training, and global outreach campaigns. In 2013-2014, she documented environmental turmoil and community conservation in East Africa with the goal of showcasing these films at environmental film festivals: NDZOU CAMP, telling the story of a Mozambican community determined to protect their elephant population was the runner-up Yale e360 Video Contest 2015 winner and won Best Ethnographic Film at the Vaasa Wildlife Film Festival in Finland. Her hour-length educational documentary about conservation efforts in Madagascar, ANDASIBE, played at several international film festivals. Denise is the 2016 runner-up winner of the Yale e360 Video Contest for the short film CHOCOLATE IN THE JUNGLE: THE BATTLE TO SAVE A DISAPPEARING RAINFOREST, depicting the plight of Ecuadorian cacao farmers in the midst of massive deforestation in the Choco Rainforest. She won first place in the Yale e360 Video Contest 2017 for THE BURNING OF BORNEO'S PEAT SWAMP FOREST, a short documentary about the degradation of Indonesian forestland, specifically focused on the area surrounding Sabangau National Forest, home to the largest breading population of orangutans. Denise was awarded two production grants to begin her current feature project IN THE LAND OF PALM OIL about the efforts of a young female Dayak activist to bring global attention to the environmental catastrophe occurring on Indonesian Borneo, spurred on by excessive logging, mining, and palm oil plantations. In pre-production is her first feature narrative, In the Dark, set in South Africa, about the global epidemic of sexual violence against women and children in which she is writer and director. Also released in 2016 was her debut novel, The People Could Fly, which focuses on teenage depression and the consideration of suicide in young American women. Her films are currently being distributed by Facts on File: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.