1st+Individual+Example

 =1st Individual Example =

//Wild Roses-Deb Caletti //
“After writing his Principia, Sir Isaac Newton collapsed in a nervous breakdown. Abraham Lincoln had several breakdowns, and was obsessed with thoughts of premature death and of going mad. F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, were the dysfunctional couple of the century. He was wracked by alcoholism, and she died in a fire at a mental hospital. So much painful living, even for the seemingly most chirpy-Dolly Parton (depression), Charles Schultz (anxiety), Dick Clark (depression), Donny and Marie Osmond, for God’s sake (anxiety and depression, respectively).”

===The overall purpose in this passage is to show how even great minds have breakdowns. People we never expect such as leaders, writers, musicians, philosophers, etc, have many kinds of breakdowns which tie them back into humanity. Thus showing that even though they are well known, they are like the rest of us in many ways. The author Deb Caletti uses Sir Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda and others to demonstrate that even great minds such as theirs have breakdowns. So their should be no doubt that a great musician such as Dino Cavalli could have a mental breakdown. It furthers her purpose by showing that Dino was just like everyone else, he was no one special. That even though some saw him as the god of music, that same music he made was the reason he was going crazy. ===

Works Cited Caletti, Deb. __Wild Roses__. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Corporation, Microsoft. "Isaac Newton's Life." __Isaac Newton's Life__. 1998. 5 Feb. 2009 .

__Abraham Lincoln__. 29 Dec. 1996. 5 Feb. 2009 .

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