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Dr. John Howland Character Analysis. Alice ’s husband and father of Anna, Tom, and Lydia. Like Alice, John is also a tenured professor at Harvard, but he studies biology and spends many more hours working in a lab than Alice does in her office. Because of this and Alice’s hectic speaking schedule, Alice and John have grown pretty distant ...
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Still Alice Summary. Dr. Alice Howland is a distinguished...
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Charles Thomas. Alice ’s grandson and Anna ’s son. Alice...
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Still Alice. Still Alice is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland and based on the 2007 novel by Lisa Genova. It stars Julianne Moore as Alice Howland, a linguistics professor diagnosed with familial Alzheimer's disease shortly after her 50th birthday. Alec Baldwin plays her husband, John, and ...
Mar 8, 2016 · Based on the novel by Lisa Genova. 1–2: ALICE HOWLAND celebrates her birthday in an upscale New York restaurant with her husband, JOHN, daughter ANNA, and son-in-law CHARLIE. Alice’s son, TOM, an ER doctor arrives late without her gift which he has forgotten. Alice easily forgives and asks after his girlfriend.
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Synopsis. It's Alice's (Julianne Moore) 50th birthday party at a fancy restaurant. She is there with her husband (Alec Baldwin) and children. Her daughter Lydia is unable to come due to an audition. Alice is waiting to be introduced at UCLA as a guest speaker in a Linguistics class. She is world renowned in her field.
Lisa Genova employs various literary devices in Still Alice, including foreshadowing, flashbacks, symbolism, metaphor, simile, personification, irony, allusion, stream of consciousness, and motifs. These devices enrich the narrative, deepen the thematic complexity, and enhance the reader’s empathy and understanding of Alzheimer’s disease.
