Suicide Prevention
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In the story Paul's Case by Willa Cather, Paul, the main character has an inner struggle with life or death. Unfortunately however, he looses his struggle and commits suicide. His teachers and his father didn't really seem to care about Paul and/or his feelings and needs. He liked his friend Charlie, but after Paul got in more trouble, Charlie was "banned" from Paul's life.
Paul's teachers didn't like him. For example, in the story Cather described the teachers thoughts toward Paul,
"His teachers were in despair, and his drawing-master
voiced the feeling of them all when he declared there was something about the boy which none of them understood.
He added: 'I don't really believe that smile of his comes
altogether from insolence; there's something sort of haunted
about it. The boy is not strong for one thing. There is
something wrong about the fellow" (246-247).
Right here, they know Paul isn't strong and there is something wrong...