Roxanne Roberts, the author of The Grieving Never Ends, coveys the psychological scarring event of her father's suicide with her powerful use of imagery. She effectively evokes sorrowful emotion with her structure of the similes and metaphors added throughout the article. Robert's introduction consists of the simile, “The blood was like Jell-O. That is what the blood gets like after you die, before they tidy up"(1). The author's decision to open her narrative with a graphic description leaves an impact on the audience. In addition, the metaphors used in the article makes the reader comprehend the grief that Roberts had and still has to experience. The excerpt, "Think of your life as a can of white paint. Each significant experience adds a tiny
The book I choose for the book talk is “Dead and gone” written by Norah McClintock, this book talks about a murder mystery of Tricey Howard. The main character of the story is Mike, an orphan whose parents got killed in a car crash. He lives with his foster father named John Riel, who was once a police officer. During a swim meet, Mike see Mr.Henderson is staring at a girl name Emily without stopping. Then he informs Emily about what happened in the community center. However, as return Emily blackmails Mike to investigate Mr. Henderson. During the investigation, Mike finds nothing suspicious, but realize Emily is the daughter of Tricey Howard. Tricey Howard was murdered years ago, but the police still haven’t find the real killer. At the meantime,
The author initially uses words with negative connotation, such “wild,” “storm of grief,” and “sank into her soul” (1), to suggest a normal reaction to the death of a loved one.
"The Mother," by Gwendolyn Brooks, is about a mother who has experienced a number of abortions and now has remorse. You can feel the remorse she is going through when reading the poem. She is regretful, yet explains that she had no other choice. It is a heartfelt poem where she talks bout how she will not be able to do certain things for the children that she aborted. This poem may be a reflection of what many other women are dealing with.
In Amy Hempels’ Short Story “Going,” our journey with the narrator travels through loss, coping, memory, experience, and the duality of life. Throughout the story is the narrator’s struggle to cope with the passing of his mother, and how he transitions from a mixture of depression, denial, and anger, into a kind of acceptance and revelation. The narrator has lost his mother in a fire three states away, and proceeds on a reckless journey through the desert, when he crashes his car and finds himself hospitalized. Only his thoughts and the occasional nurse to keep him company. The narrator soon gains a level of discovery and realizations that lead to a higher understanding of the duality of life and death, and all of the experiences that come with being alive.
The emotional appeal can be felt on every sentence of the essay. Form this we can see the suffering faced by the writer. Even the first sentence of the article grabs the reader’s attention. It says,” The blood was like Jell-O. That is what blood gets like, after you die, before they tidy up” (Roberts). The words, blood, suicide, death are themselves filled with emotion which grabs reader’s attention to read the essay. Life is precious. We don’t have a second chance to live. We just live our life once and nobody sacrifices one’s life uselessly. Roberts effectively makes appeals to pathos throughout her essay. Her essay is full of emotionally charged words and phrases like death, suicide, motorcycle accident, abandonment and so on which create a sympathetic image. “Second-guessing is the devil’s game, for there are no answers and infinite questions. But it is an inevitable, inescapable refrain, like a bad song you can’t get out of your mind” (Roberts). This statement clearly supports her appeal to pathos because by the death of a loved one, we have all kinds of difficult emotions and it may feel like the pain and sadness will never go away. Her goal is to make reader feel sympathy for her by writing her personal experience of
Imagine that the person you love most in the world dies. How would you cope with the loss? Death and grieving is an agonizing and inevitable part of life. No one is immune from death’s insidious and frigid grip. Individuals vary in their emotional reactions to loss. There is no right or wrong way to grieve (Huffman, 2012, p.183), it is a melancholy ordeal, but a necessary one (Johnson, 2007). In the following: the five stages of grief, the symptoms of grief, coping with grief, and unusual customs of mourning with particular emphasis on mourning at its most extravagant, during the Victorian era, will all be discussed in this essay (Smith, 2014).
Death is an inevitable process that every being must in endure in their lifetime. The loss of a family member or close friend can shower the survivors with numerous emotions. Despite the emotions, grieving the loved one is a natural process in which helps with coping and healing. The short story “By-and-By”, by Amy Bloom uses symbolism and imagery to demonstrate how a person navigates through the fluctuating, short-term, or long-lasting stages of grief. The nonlinear chronology of the story complicates the reader’s comprehension of the narrator’s grieving process.
Every author has their own version of of loss and their own way of looking at it. Characters from each of these three short stories; “Night Calls”, “Typhoid Fever”, “Geraldo No Last Name” have to deal with a type of loss. Whether that person lost a family member like in “Night calls” or a complete stranger like in “Geraldo No Last Name” even a best friend like in “Typhoid fever” they all have to deal with some kind of form of death. The authors perspective’s in each story can change their own views on how they looked at each perspective of losing someone that impacted them somehow in their lives. The mood and tone of each story also have to do with the author's own perspectives showing through his or her work. Using
Death is a difficult reality to face, especially when it concerns a loved one, and the way in which individuals approach their grief can critically affect how they move through the healing process. In James Baldwin’s Notes of A Native Son, Baldwin’s father dies and Baldwin approaches this loss through a multitude of complex emotional reactions. Like Baldwin, many individuals deal with the loss of someone close to them through a variety of coping mechanisms, such as ignoring the reality of the situation, clinging to emotional responses like devastation or outrage, and eventually experiencing relief and emotional rest.
Loss. Grief. Mourning. Anger. Disbelief. Emotions are in abundance when a loved one passes away. People need to find a way to cope with the situations and often need to express themselves by writing their feelings down in order to get them out. This is exactly what Paul Monette does in his book of poetry title “Love Alone” in remembrance of his companion Rog. Through writing his poetry Monette describes his emotions and the events that occurred during Rog’s battle with AIDS. By Monette’s transitioning through different emotions, the reader begins to understand the pain the author is dealt. Touching upon Kubler-Ross’ five stages of death including denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, Monette transitions to Rog’s decline in health. Using different fonts and no punctuation, the lines are interpreted by the reader using instincts to know when to begin and end a sentence. Evident in the poems “The Very Same”, “The Half-life”, and “Current Status”, Monette gives a description of loss that makes the reader tingle.
The theme of grief exists as a significant theme in Edgar Allan Poe’s narrative poem, The Raven. The source of grief comes from the narrator’s emotions toward the death of his loved one. The dark and creepy atmosphere enhances the theme of grief and helps the audience to feel the narrator’s grief. The poem starts “upon a midnight dreary” (Poe, The Raven 456), and the narrator already feels “weak and weary” (Poe, The Raven 456). This sets
Grief is pain of the mind often on account of something someone have experienced in the past or something someone are presently experiencing. The message and feelings of grief are often conveyed through poems, books and films. The novel ‘Two weeks with the Queen’ written by Morris Gleitzman displays the emotional journey that Colin takes coming to terms with his younger brother’s terminal illness. Robert Redford’s Film ‘The Horse Whisperer’ shows the break up in a family when grace the only child experiences great sadness and loss after losing her best friend in a tragic horse riding accident. The poem ‘Mid Term Break’ written by Seamus Heaney shows how a young boy’s life is turned upside down with the death of his younger brother.
Amanda Stevenson Dr. Sigler EN 102: Composition and Literature 11 September 2015 The Effects of Cryptically Oppressive Men on Women Although A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin and A Secret Sorrow by Karen van der Zee illustrate the predicaments of two very different women, both stories have similar, male driven undertones. The stories’ intertwining themes suggest that as women attempt to attain freedom by not succumbing to the standards of typical life, they ultimately fail because of oppressive male society. Ironically, the differences in each story highlight the similarities, such as the role of children and the method of separation of the women, each with relation to the male characters.
Grief can force a cocktail of emotions and feelings upon a person that has to experience it. This is very true for Joe in “always a motive” by Dan Ross and in Eric Clapton’s song “Tears in heaven” both of the protagonists have experienced tremendous loss. Joe has the feeling of denial and tries to escape the idea of his son’s death by driving away from it. Eric Clapton is in the phase of depression at the start of his son and then changes it to a more acceptance tone and stating that he must be “strong”. The story and the song both show how helpless both protagonists
As I view my loss line diagram, I can see that I have faced many challenges throughout my life. These losses I experienced made me realize that I had no control over them. My childhood losses taught me that I can control how I react to them. I have carried this lesson with me on my journey into adulthood. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how my loss line has impacted the person I am today, how the losses still affects my life, and how my experience will affect my work with grief clients. In reflecting on these aspects will show that I have healed and matured enough to assist the bereaved.