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Sons of Anarchy: Samlin's story Chapter 2

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The story explores previously unknown chapter of the motorcycle club, Samlin. It follows the story of Clint Lancet the son of Samlin’s previous president, Roger Lancet. After a stint in jail his father turned away from a life of crime. Years later after a fight with cancer his kindey fails and his dying wish is for his second son to attend college and escape the small crime-ridden town. However as Clint is dragged into the raging War between the Mayans and the Sons, he soon finds myself drawn into the life of Mayhem. Eventually he must choose between a fate he seems destined to follow or a chance at freedom he never believed possible.

Chapter 2

Only one bullet is needed. It pierces straight through the Mayan’s skull, splattering the wall behind with droplets of red and lumps of brain matter. The sight of it sends Clint on his hands and knees, heaving and gasping until he thinks his lungs will give out. The silver lining of household funds being so scarce is that this morning’s cereal and Honeywell's cupcake are the only things to come up, it’s hard to see the benefits at present.

His brother, wincing, takes a couple of steps back and waits for Clint to catch his breath before offering out a calloused hand. It’s a show of brotherly love that seems foreign after the months of growing apart. Being pulled to his shaking legs snags a memory from the back of Clint’s mind, of him seven years old sprinting after Duke on the way to school. It had been a pointless exercise, at that time Duke was twice his size and strong considering the only four-year age gap, predictably it ended with Clint sliding across the pavement, scrapping a layer of skin off his scrawny knees. With his more compassionate mother at home and his deadbeat dad rarely in state he hadn’t yet grown a tough exterior and as he tumbled to the ground, he’d let salty tears freely run down his face. Instead of mockery Duke had rushed back and routed through his tattered school bag, eventually pulling out a screwed-up piece of math homework to mop up the blood with. He wouldn’t have done it in school, they both knew Clint was the timid little brother, not to be acknowledged when Duke was with his pig-headed friends but as his brother pulled him to his feet it ceased to matter.

They weren’t children in a school yard now, Clint’s mind is pulled back to the present when the clubhouse looms into view. Duke had one hand grasping onto his shoulder on the walk but let go as they walk through the clubhouse doors. Looking at the interior, it’s exactly what Clint expected, a bar stands full and proud on one half of the room, the rest of the room contains an arrangement of old but comfortable leather seating and a dance floor, pole taking pride in place. On the wall hangs pictures of all active and previous club members, Clint nearly does a double take on spotting his father, the fierce young man portrayed is a world away from the frail old man dozing in the lawn chair back home.

It’s exactly what he expected from the clubhouse, the only deviation is the few people in the middle of it. Beatrice is there, crouched down beside a man who must be Wheels. He’s clearly old, a dark hair can’t be spotted amongst his greasy white locks. The hair isn’t long enough to be pulled back into a biker’s trademark ponytail but it still looks like a couple of barber appointments were unfortunately missed. His skin that may have once tightly covered bulging muscles has sagged with age and has a similar colour palette to spoiled milk, although Clint is guessing that’s caused by the bullet holes in his stomach, still leaking out blood despite the towels Beatrice is pressing into the wound. Another young woman is stood there, pale blonde hair up in a ponytail, a plastic case is in front of her giving her an aura of importance, probably a student fixing up bikers to get herself through medical school.

Duke pushes him towards the group and he takes over holding the towel to the wound. The doctor leans over him to check the injury, when she speaks it takes a moment for him to realise the words are being directed at him, ‘’Move the towel.’’ She hums in response when her order is followed, ‘’It’s not as bad as it looks. ’’ Clint will admit to never having spent a day in med school, but looking at the injury he can’t help but doubt her.

Appearing to sense the doubt she glances at him again, her gaze is sharp, cutting into him, Clint doesn’t think he could look away if he wanted to, he’s reluctant to even blink. Her eyes are a piercing pale blue, despite their uniqueness Clint thinks they hold a familiarity. ‘’He’ll live.’’ Her tone’s matter of fact, it’s without emotion or concern, he wonders for a moment who she is, not a normal student surely. It takes years to build up her demeanour of apathy in the face of a dying man. Taking a last glance at him she turns back to route through the med bag.

Looking around he sees Duke on the opposite side of the room, a phone pressed to his ear and his lips in a thin line. Twenty minutes later, when Wheels has been stitched up and Beatrice has pushed a cold beer into Clint’s hand, they arrive. Recognisable from their authoritative stance and from the reaper printed on their backs, Sons. Tig’s at the front of the group, his easy-going attitude from the morning gone leaving professional gangster in its place.

Whilst a couple of the Sons walk over to Wheels and the doctor, Tig stays in the middle of the room surveying the surrounding scene for damage. His gaze locks onto a spot near the door’s archway, bullet holes litter it, his steady gaze glides along the door’s damaged framework until they land upon Clint sat at the nearby bar. They stare at each other for a moment, like a hungry fox that’s caught sight of a trembling rabbit, until Clint breaks the contest, eyes move downwards to the wooden floor. His heart jumps when he catches sight of a track of bloody footsteps, starting at Wheels and ending below his stool.

Tearing his eyes away he notices Tig, now next to him. He’d moved as quiet as a mouse to the neighbouring stool, with a flick of a wrist Beatrice is summoned to them, setting a glass of something strong down. Clint doesn't acknowledge him but he feels his gaze burning into his back. Maybe a mouse wasn’t a good metaphor. Tig seems more like a panther, dark and dangerous, unpredictable at the best of times.

‘’I appreciate what you did today kid, for the club. It took balls. You’d make a damn good Son. Just like your old man.’’

At the mention of his father Clint warily turns to the older man, a slight scoff falling from his mouth. ‘’I don’t think he’d approve.’’

‘’Yeah, I heard there might be some hard feelings towards ol’ Roger and the guys. Still it can’t be that bad if he let Duke follow in his footsteps.’’ Clint doesn’t bother to correct him. A sense of panic has ignited in his chest, burning through all reason. It’s like the events of the night have just hit in. He’s in the Sons’ clubhouse, Tig freakin’ Trager by his side and his hands drenched in another man’s blood.

Looking straight at Tig, he finally recognises why the Doc had seemed so familiar, they had the same eyes, piercing with a blue hue to them, eyes that promised danger if their owners’ orders weren’t obeyed. In a last-ditch attempt at changing the topic Clint blurts out ‘’Who’s she?’’ nodding towards the blonde.

‘’Just my niece, Sammy. She’s got a good head on her shoulders that one. Though if you’re looking for some action, I’ve got to point you towards one of the Croweaters.’’ Tig’s grin takes on a manic edge to it. ‘’That’ll be safer for you.’’ Clint doesn’t doubt that for a second, he can practically feel Tig’s metaphorical claws embedding themselves into his chest.

‘’So back to the Sons.’’ Clearly, he’s not easily distracted. ‘’You’re good with a gun, a savant with Bikes and the Prez here was just saying they needed an extra set of hands. Plus, they have pretty good set up here, don't yer think?’’ Not pausing for an answer Tig takes a swig of his drink before indicating the pole in the middle of the floor, ‘’Samlin parties are legendary for a good reason.’’ In his speech he fails to mention the overhanging issue of the clubhouse being pelted with bullets at any given time.

Eventually noticing his companion's silence Tig takes the hint, ‘’I’ll let you think about it.’’ As he moves towards the other Sons, he calls over his shoulder ''Bowman is going to want to talk. Don’t go anywhere.’’ Clint nods, not daring to ask who that is.

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Psycho thrillers: five movies that educate us how the attention cultivate

Power, savagery, fatality and reality the movies can educate us plenty about lifes large-scale concerns. From the Godfather to Groundhog Day, five psychologists pick the cinemas that tell us what realizes humen tick

Ten days ago in London, the Hungarian director Lszl Nemes hosted a preview screening of his film, Son of Saul. He explained that if beings didnt want to stay for the Q& A afterwards, that was fine; he wouldnt take personal offence. The gathering chuckled politely. Thats the last laugh youll have for a while, he told them.

Son of Saul Photograph: Rex/ Shutterstock

He was right: Son of Saul out in the UK on Friday is what you might call a taxing watch. Set in Auschwitz in 1944, it presents a era in living conditions of a Sonderkommando, a Jewish captive forced to work in the gas chambers, disposing of the deaths organizations. Almost every frame is filled by the beyond brutalised face of a mortal fated to die and already living in hell.

The film armies you to grapple with “the worlds largest” frightening moral selections imaginable. Should you delude your fellow prisoners into thinking theyre just going for a shower? Can you square a duty to truth-telling with a responsibility not to justification farther damage? Son of Saul requests topics few dare to pose about the human condition. Numerous movies from the sacred to the debase do the same. Here, five leading psychologists look at the classic movies that explore how human beings work.

Groundhog Day by Philippa Perry

Freud caused his patients the chance to re-edit their narrations

Andie MacDowell and Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. Image: Allstar/ Columbia

In Groundhog Day, weatherman Phil Connors lives the same day over and over again. At one point, he has a schmooze in a forbid with two drinks: What would you do if you were stuck in one region and every day was exactly the same and good-for-nothing you did mattered? That simply summing-ups it up for me, replies the wino. Summarizes it up for a lot of us.

Freud inspired patients to tell their narratives and got them to free-associate around their narrative to find out how they thought and experienced about themselves. This rendered his patients the chance to relive, re-examine and maybe re-edit their narrations in terms of the room they impart themselves in the present. Our earliest context has a profound impact upon the americans and anatomies, to a great extent, how we watch and interact with the world.

When we firstly satisfied Connors, played by Bill Murray, whatever happened to him in his past has shaped him grumpy, contemptuous, disruptive and insulting. He is trapped in the narcissistic defence of assuming he is superior to everyone else and we consider parties being circumspect around him and not enjoying his company. In psychotherapy, we often talking here self-fulfilling revelation if you expect everyone not to like you, you behave defensively and, hey presto, your prophecy starts true-life. Being caught in the same day is a metaphor for how he is stuck in this pattern.

Groundhog day also illustrates object relations belief: the hypothesi of how we find bad objects( a negative influence from our past) in objectives that are around us in the present. To find our bad object we search for and find negative characteristics even when, in other peoples sees, there used to be none. For precedent, at the Groundhog Day gala that Phil reports on from the small town of Punxsutawney, he can only determine hypocrisy and satire, whereas the TV creator, Rita( Andie MacDowell ), discovers the grace of institution and the delight it brings to the people. In object relations theory, the relevant recommendations is that the psychoanalyst was becoming good object for the patient, and with the psychoanalysts facilitation individual patients learns good objects where hitherto they could not. Rita is Phils good object and the catalyst in Phils transformation. Her influence begins to rub off. He detects the joy of educating himself in literature, art and music. He acquires out about beings, assisting them and befriending them rather than writing them off and finds out that this has its own reward.

The tradition of Punxsutawney is that if the groundhog, too called Phil, can see its shadow on Groundhog Day, the town will get six more weeks of winter. It takes Phil the weatherman quite a long time to see his darknes more, but when at last he does, the working day miraculously moves on. In Jungian assumption, the darknes refers to negative various aspects of your own personality that you reject and project on to others. There are also positive aspects to the darknes that is still conceal from consciousness. Jung said that everyone carries a shadow and that the less it is embodied in the individuals awareness life, the darker and more destructive it has the potential to be.

Although we dont have the indulgence of living in the same day for as long as it is also necessary in order to recognise how we sabotage ourselves, our missteps do have a garb of happening often enough for us to become aware of them. What remains of our lifespan is hour enough to do something about it.

Philippa Perry is a psychotherapist and the author of the graphic tale Couch Fiction .

The Godfather by Steven Pinker

It explains why the impulse for savagery derived to be a selective programme

James Caan and Marlon Brando in The Godfather Photograph: Moviestore/ Rex/ Shutterstock

The Godfather is not an obvious choice for a mental movie, but its stylised, witticised savagery alleges often about human nature.

Except in war zones, beings are extraordinarily unlikely to die from savagery. Yet from the Iliad through video games, our species has always apportioned time and resources to destroying simulations of violence.The brain seems to run on the adage: If you want quietnes, prepare for conflict. We are mesmerized by the logic of promontory and menace, the psychology of alliance and sellout, the vulnerabilities of their own bodies and how they can be employed or shielded. A likely interpretation is that in our evolutionary record, brutality be a major enough threat to fitness that everyone had to understand how it works.

Among the many subgenres of violent presentation, one with perennial appeal to brows both high and low is the Hobbesian thriller a storey set in a circumscribed zone of chao that saves the familiar trappings of our times, but in which the exponents must live beyond the reach of the modern leviathan( the police and judiciary ), with its monopoly on the legitimate use of force. Examples include westerns, spy thrillers, battlefield dramas, zombie holocausts, seat tale and movies about organised criminal. In a smuggled economy, you cant sue your rivals or call the police, so the credible menace( and occasional expend) of violence is your one protection.

The godfather of Mafia movies is, of course, Francis Ford Coppolas The Godfather trilogy. The screenplays are a goldmine for remarks on the human condition in a state of nature, beyond such constraints of modern institutions. Four wrinkles stand out: in the opening stage, Vito Corleone, having promised to mete out some bumpy justice on behalf of a victimised undertaker “whove been” abandoned by the American leviathan, demonstrates how reciprocity provides as the plaster of traditional societies: Some era, and that day may never return, Ill call upon “youve got to” do a service for me. But until the working day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughters wedding day.

The opening panorama of The Godfather

Following the tragic death of his eldest son, Vito addresses the heads of the rival violation households and shows the tactical rationality of evident irrationality: Im a superstitious male. And if some unlucky coincidence should befall my son, if my son is struck by a bolt of lightning, I will accuse some of the people here. Elsewhere, he elaborates: Coincidences dont happen to people who plow collisions as a personal insult.

A foot soldier of one of these adversaries explains why the inclination for savagery advanced to be a select programme , not an indiscriminate bloodlust or a hydraulic pressing: I dont like violence, Tom. Im a businessman. Blood is a big expense.

And for all our hotheaded counsels, Michael explains the knowledge of ensure your ardours: Never hate your foes. It feigns your judgment.

Steven Pinker is Johnstone family professor of psychology at Harvard .

Rushmore by Dacher Keltner

It shows us that to consolidate in dominance, we must unite others

Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore. Photo: Rex Shutterstock

All art, French social theoretician Pierre Bourdieu debates, is an expression of social class, from the music you experience to the trinkets you put on your walls. Few cinemas, though, have undertaken the class subdivide between the haves and have-nots as imaginatively as Wes Andersons 1998 cinema Rushmore.

The film reveals at Rushmore Academy, a prep school in Houston, Texas, and tells the story of the friendship between schoolboy Max Fischer( Jason Schwartzman ), the son of a barber, and rich industrialist Herman Blume( Bill Murray ). They both fall for a lately bereaved teacher at the school( Olivia Williams ), and resort to misguided tactics to triumph her affection. As this timeless strife undoes, the film illustrates various following principles class and dominance uncovered in psychological science.

The first that affluence is rising unethical and socially detached action is on display at a birthday defendant for Blumes sons, who attend Rushmore Academy with Max. The two sons greedily shred through a collection of presents( and are most enjoyed by a crossbow ). Nearby, Blumes wife flirts blatantly with a young man, while Blume sits far away from the mayhem, languidly convulsing golf balls into his dirty pool.

The puddle vistum in Rushmore

This scene captivates recent considers showing that upper-class individuals are more disposed to impulsive and socially aloof behaviour, including misconstruing others ardours, swearing, lying in recreations to win prizes and flouting the regulation of the road.

Navigating power structure, such as prep schools, is the cause of stress for lower-class individuals, and can heighten levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol. To adapt to such social emphasizes, people from lower-class backgrounds reach out and is attached to others a second principle of class and influence. Studies find that it is parties from lower-class backgrounds who share more, collaborate, attend to others carefully and do acts that unite others, a intend by which they can rise in strength when paucity the advantages of lineage. With brilliant detail, Anderson accompanies this principle to life in Maxs defining social inclination: forming sororities. Max is at the head of every imaginable guild, including the beekeepers culture, the kung fu golf-club and the astronomy squad all touching, quaint acts that discover a deeper principle at participate: to increase in dominance, we must unite others in common cause.

Dacher Keltner is a prof of psychology at University of California, Berkeley .

Altered Nation by Sue Blackmore

It plays with the question of what we mean by reality

William Hurt in Altered Regime. Image: Moviestore/ Rex/ Shutterstock

Ken Russells Altered Position is based on a wild time in the 1970 s, when a whole lot of professors took hallucinogenic drugs. One of them, John Lilly, started working with isolation containers where you swim in saltwater in total stillnes, resulting in absolute sensory deprivation with resultant vivid imagery and bizarre sensations.

The films hero is a scientist called Eddie( William Hurt) who starts experimenting with psychedelic drugs to explore other countries of consciousness and our notions of actuality. At one point he emerges from his isolation tank having been transformed into an parrot but Im not so interested in this kind of hopeless fantasy. What interests me is how the cinema manages the altered commonwealths of consciousness. We know that when you take hallucinogenic drugs of this kind, a very early hallucinations are simple, colorful, geometric decorations. Passages and spirals are common, as they are in out-of-body and near-death knowledge. The movie has batch of passageways, and a wonderful maelstrom near the end, where Eddie is being sucked away into oblivion. That is all extravagant cinema material, but the maelstrom leaves a good suffer of hallucinatory know-hows, and is rather well done.

Lilly was trying to understand the nature of actuality, and thats what this movie gamblings with. What do we make by world, regardless? You might say that what we know, and what Eddie in the film presupposed, is that there is a physical actuality and our intelligence interprets it, and that hallucinations are not real. But if you make a hallucinogenic drug into most peoples mentalities, they get remarkably similar experiences.

A lovely detail in the film is where Eddie starts for a formality with an indigenous tribe in Mexico. He is given a tonic, goes into an extreme adjusted territory and considers flows of idols coming out of his body. The hotshots are not real in the sense that there are no white-hot lights flowing from us, but lots of people who take those same doses appreciate the same thing so there is a kind of reality here, a kind of shared experience.

In consciousness analyzes, we struggle with the hard question of consciousness. It is a deep riddle how do subjective know-hows arise from objective intelligence task? We dont know. Numerous people, myself included, say there isnt actually a hard problem. We become dualists in childhood we think that recollection and psyche are divide and thats why we have a problem: how can the knowledge arise from the intelligence? Somehow, we have to see how the two are the same circumstance. Many people have these hallucinatory suffers, or go through intense customs, and claim to have achieved non-duality. We dont get that explanation in this film, but it would be amazing if we did.

Sue Blackmore is a writer, professor and visiting professor at Plymouth University .

The Seventh Seal by Susan Greenfield

Its about the psychology of parties the hope you are going to be better

Ingmar Bergmans film is so striking and implacable, unlike most movies nowadays. A knight, returning from the Crusades to plague-ridden Sweden, is visited by Death, a pale-faced, black-cloaked attribute. They play out a chess coincide which, if the cavalier triumphs, will stave off his demise.

The Seventh Seal

The fact The Seventh Seal is in black and white and was reached in the 1950 s is evidence of its staying appeal, in the same way Greek misfortune weathers it is something that speaks of eternal appraises, folks hopes and anxieties, and is not dependent on current culture. It has been satirised, most famously by Monty Pythons The Meaning of Life, in a sketch in which Death transforms up at a middle-class dinner party. Its funny, but it doesnt detract from the original, where everyone is fated at the end. It is the opposite of the joyous stops of movies we have now.

The film has a very dark, nihilistic feel to it in an age when people are soft and easy. There is one panorama where one of the specific characteristics, an actor, is up a tree, and Death comes to looked through it. He expects him who he is, and Death says he has come for him. The man adds its not his time, he has his performance to do. Death enunciates: Its cancelled. Because of death. All the fantasies and hopes you have are annulled because of death.

Im not recognizing also that Bergman was inevitably expounding any particular mental assumption, but he does talks about the silence of God, which perhaps for many parties echoes true. I think it is about the psychology of beings the hope that you are going to be better and different, to think that you can get away with things.

The knight goes to confession and starts to tell the priest about the chess move he is going make and, of course, the clergyman is Death. You cant overcome fatality and all of us are playing chess with demise, in a way hoping well be the one who wont get cancer, wont have a heart attack, that this happens to other people , not us. I think there is that mentality in numerous parties, and this film brings it home to you. I am an rosy party, and it clears me appreciate life because of its highly transient and arbitrary nature.

Susan Greenfield is a scientist, scribe, broadcaster and a member of the House of Lords .

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Psycho thrillers: five movies that educate us how the attention cultivate

Son of Saul Photograph: Rex/ Shutterstock

Groundhog Day by Philippa Perry

Freud caused his patients the chance to re-edit their narrations

Andie MacDowell and Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. Image: Allstar/ Columbia

Philippa Perry is a psychotherapist and the author of the graphic tale Couch Fiction .

The Godfather by Steven Pinker

It explains why the impulse for savagery derived to be a selective programme

James Caan and Marlon Brando in The Godfather Photograph: Moviestore/ Rex/ Shutterstock

The Godfather is not an obvious choice for a mental movie, but its stylised, witticised savagery alleges often about human nature.

The opening panorama of The Godfather

And for all our hotheaded counsels, Michael explains the knowledge of ensure your ardours: Never hate your foes. It feigns your judgment.

Steven Pinker is Johnstone family professor of psychology at Harvard .

Rushmore by Dacher Keltner

It shows us that to consolidate in dominance, we must unite others

Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore. Photo: Rex Shutterstock

The puddle vistum in Rushmore

Dacher Keltner is a prof of psychology at University of California, Berkeley .

Altered Nation by Sue Blackmore

It plays with the question of what we mean by reality

William Hurt in Altered Regime. Image: Moviestore/ Rex/ Shutterstock

Sue Blackmore is a writer, professor and visiting professor at Plymouth University .

The Seventh Seal by Susan Greenfield

Its about the psychology of parties the hope you are going to be better

The Seventh Seal

Susan Greenfield is a scientist, scribe, broadcaster and a member of the House of Lords .

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Psycho thrillers: five movies that educate us how the attention cultivate

Son of Saul Photograph: Rex/ Shutterstock

Groundhog Day by Philippa Perry

Freud caused his patients the chance to re-edit their narrations

Andie MacDowell and Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. Image: Allstar/ Columbia

Philippa Perry is a psychotherapist and the author of the graphic tale Couch Fiction .

The Godfather by Steven Pinker

It explains why the impulse for savagery derived to be a selective programme

James Caan and Marlon Brando in The Godfather Photograph: Moviestore/ Rex/ Shutterstock

The Godfather is not an obvious choice for a mental movie, but its stylised, witticised savagery alleges often about human nature.

The opening panorama of The Godfather

And for all our hotheaded counsels, Michael explains the knowledge of ensure your ardours: Never hate your foes. It feigns your judgment.

Steven Pinker is Johnstone family professor of psychology at Harvard .

Rushmore by Dacher Keltner

It shows us that to consolidate in dominance, we must unite others

Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore. Photo: Rex Shutterstock

The puddle vistum in Rushmore

Dacher Keltner is a prof of psychology at University of California, Berkeley .

Altered Nation by Sue Blackmore

It plays with the question of what we mean by reality

William Hurt in Altered Regime. Image: Moviestore/ Rex/ Shutterstock

Sue Blackmore is a writer, professor and visiting professor at Plymouth University .

The Seventh Seal by Susan Greenfield

Its about the psychology of parties the hope you are going to be better

The Seventh Seal

Susan Greenfield is a scientist, scribe, broadcaster and a member of the House of Lords .

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