Perspective of loss 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 …show more content…
their own views and ideology to shape their writings. Throughout each of these three short stories, connections will be made on what kind of loss happened and how the mood/tone and authors' perspectives showed throughout each work of literature. “Geraldo No Last Name” has an important example of the author's perspective, showing through when Geraldo dies.
The Author uses Marin a Mexican immigrant women to be the last person Geraldo dances with and sees to show the true racism and hardships of their time (currently). Sandra Cisneros, the author writes “ I knew I was a Mexican woman,... that’s when I decided I would wire at something my classmates couldn’t write about.” This excerpt from meet the author shows that Sandra in “Geraldo No Last Name” used her own background and past experiences with racism to help sculpt and shape her own tone and voice in this short story. The Mood and Tone in this story helpless,sad, and worn out. Shown In this quote from the story “ But what difference does it make?...He wasn’t anything to her. ”(Sandra 560). Loss of a stranger, but was he a stranger? In some ways he was to Marin but in others they were the same and dealt with the same things. Throughout the story until the very end you get a sense of Marin of not even caring or wanting to deal with the police and the death until the very end when you find out that she feels bad that know one will ever know about Geraldo’s death. Sandra Cisneros, the author uses her own experiences on racism and hardships of being a Mexican immigrant to help the reader truly understand the literary …show more content…
work. Losing a best friend to a sickness is a horrible thing, but to be there every day and watch them slowly get sicker and sicker is horrible. Frank, a ten year old boy born in Ireland during the Typhoid outbreak. Patricia, a fourteen year old girl also living in Ireland during this outbreak. They both are in a Catholic hospital with the boy having typhoid and the girl having Diphtheria start to talk across rooms and become friends. These two form a close net friendship. Sharing poetry back and forth. thier friendship shows a great example of mood and tone of an author's life affecting his life,of his literary work. The mood throughout “Typhoid Fever” is sad and depressing and the tone is serious yet playful in some parts. This quote is one of franks last thoughts “ Patricia is gone and I will never know what happened to the highwayman and the bess” (McCourt 198). This quote shows Franks and patricia's connection they had and the saddest and remorse frank feels knowing he will never see his best friend again. McCourt, the author moved from Ireland when he was seventeen after his father left him and his mothers and siblings behind. When he was a kid, he was faced with starvation and neglect, but came to America for a new start . “Typhoid Fever” mood and tone and the expression of loss can be explained by the author's past been shown through his work. The power of loving someone so much you are willing to lie to that person to make them feel better or heal is powerful.
In “Night Calls” a man and a daughter of this kind of love. Not shown at first, but towards the end of the short story after the girl's mother died it brought the two closer than they were at the beginning of the story. The author, Lisa Fugard got her inspiration for this story after watching a documentary of the last two Japanese herons species and it touched her how an old man watched over them and cared for them. That caringness was brought into the story and brought out between the relationship of Marlene and her father. This carningness helps supports the sad but hopeful tone. This quote is Marlene listening and not hearing the heron, the father's last connection to his wife. “Then, one long night I didn't hear the heron’s call. The bird disappeared...I saw that my father’s eyes had gone dull like a dead animal in the morning”(Fugard 571). This quote shows how much this bird meant to the father and how Marlene was close enough to his father to tell that it really hurt him. Not only losing their mother, but their mothers prized possession was hard for both of them, but brought them closer together in the long
run. Loss is something that can’t be understood in words. It’s not something you can write down or read about . Its something you have to have experienced to truly understand or comprehend. Authors who have experienced loss or longing or death or grief can write or create the closest concept and understanding that we have on understanding loss.
In the narrative poem “Cautionary Tale of Girls and Birds of Prey” the author, Sandy Longhorn, tells the story of a young girl who is afraid of a hawk, and her inconsiderate father who doesn’t take her concerns seriously. The story shows how her father is determined to get rid of her fear of the hawk, because he thinks it is both foolish and childish. The daughter very well knows the capability of the hawk, however her father doesn’t acknowledge it until it is too late. In the poem, Longhorn uses alliteration and rhyme to help explore the theme of how being inconsiderate towards others can in the end hurt you as much as it hurts them. The poem takes place on a little farm where the girl and her father live with all of their livestock.
In “Whoever We Are, Loss Finds us and Defines Us”, by Anna Quindlen, she brings forth the discussion grief's grip on the lives of the living. Wounds of death can heal with the passing of time, but in this instance, the hurt lives on. Published in New York, New York on June 5, 1994, this is one of many Quindlen published in the New York Times, centered on death's aftermath. This article, written in response to the death of Quindlen’s sister-in-law, and is focused on an audience who has, currently is, or will experience death. Quindlen-a columnist for the New York Times and Newsweek, Pulitzer Prize winner and author-has written six bestselling novels (Every Last One, Rise and Shine, Object Lessons, One True Thing, and Black and Blue) and has been published in the New York Times and Newsweek.
Right from the first stanza, we can clearly see that the girl emphasizes her passionate feelings towards the boy by explaining how she desires to be close to her love. Moreover, she expresses the theme of love through using a narrative of how she is prepared to trap a bird. Apparently, this symbolizes how she is prepared to trap her lover’s feelings with the desire to live together all through her life. Additionally, the young lady emphasizes on her overall beauty, her beautiful hair, and clothing which is of the finest linen which she uses to attracts her lover’s attention (Hennessy & Patricia, p.
The short story, Geraldo No Last Name, comes from a collection of many stories written in the book The House on Mango Street. The narrative is about a young Puerto Rican woman named Marin. Marin enjoys dancing and tends to go out to different dance halls around the city, one night she meets a young, attractive Mexican man named Geraldo. Although they dance and talk together for hours Marin only learns two things about the young gentleman. One, he worked at the restaurant and two, his name was Geraldo. Later that night, Geraldo dies in a hit and run accident and is brought to a hospital’s emergency room. Being that Marin was the last person with Geraldo and he has no form of identification on his person, Marin has to come to the hospital to
Geraldo No Last Name, by Sandra Cisneros, is a short story about a young woman named Marin investigating the death of a Mexican man she recently met at a dance. The death of this man, named Geraldo, deeply troubles Marin. As a Mexican woman herself, the troubling news to Marin, is the fact she believes he was discriminated against. In a statement, Marin describes her frustration with the hospital where Geraldo was treated, she illustrates, “The hospital emergency room. Nobody but an intern working alone. And maybe if the surgeon would’ve come… they would know who to notify and where” (Cisneros 560). This statement, coming from the perspective of a Mexican woman, provides a message and theme to the story. Nobody should be treated differently, especially surrounding the death of a person.
The presence of death in the novel looms over the characters, making each of them reflect on the
Since its first appearance in the 1886 collection A White Heron and Other Stories, the short story A White Heron has become the most favorite and often anthologized of Sarah Orne Jewett. Like most of this regionalist writer's works, A White Heron was inspired by the people and landscapes in rural New England, where, as a little girl, she often accompanied her doctor father on his visiting patients. The story is about a nine-year-old girl who falls in love with a bird hunter but does not tell him the white heron's place because her love of nature is much greater. In this story, the author presents a conflict between femininity and masculinity by juxtaposing Sylvia, who has a peaceful life in country, to a hunter from town, which implies her discontent with the modernization?s threat to the nature. Unlike female and male, which can describe animals, femininity and masculinity are personal and human.
When death has taken someone from your life, you think of everything you said to them, your last words, memories, and the talks that happened. During this assignment, one will see the grieving process from me about a tenant that I took care of, and the impact this lady’s passing away, left me. Polan and Taylor (2015) says “Loss challenges the person’s priorities and importance of relationships.” (pg 226) When an individual loses someone that you see everyday and take care of, this effects you because, you build a relationship and get to know each other on a personal level. When my tenant was passing away it was painful. I didn’t know what to feel when I seen what was happening and knew what was taking place.
The couple in the story is a couple that has been together a long time and persevered through life together. When they first see the whooping cranes the husband says “they are rare, not many left” (196). This is the point in the story where the first connection between the couple and the cranes are made. The rarity of the cranes symbolizes the rarity of the couple’s relationship. Although they have started developing anomalies in their health, with the husband he “can’t smoke, can’t drink martinis, no coffee, no candy” (197) ¬—they are still able to laugh with each other and appreciate nature’s beauty. Their relationship is a true oddity; filled with lasting love. However this lasting love for whooping cranes has caused some problems for the species. The whooping cranes are “almost extinct”; this reveals a problem of the couple. The rare love that they have is almost extinct as well. The wife worries about her children because the “kids never write” (197). This reveals the communication gap between the two generations, as well as the different values between the generations. These different values are a factor into the extinction of true love.
“A White Heron,” a short story by Sarah Orne Jewett depicts and allows the reader to explore the loss of innocence individual’s go through both spiritually and physically. Jewett fills the story with symbolism that captures Sylvia’s lapsarian fall and her own personal discoveries about life, humanity, and goodness. This is not to be mistaken for simply a story of a girl entering into sexual awareness; it is also about the defilement of nature by man as represented by the ornithologist and Sylvia, and the moral struggles with the coming of age of a young girl.
Grief, revenge, and unsurpassed sorrow. Few authors can replicate these feelings as well as Edgar Allan Poe. “The Raven”, “Lenore”, and “Annabel Lee” all refer to an instance where the narrator is grieving over a lost loved one.
He is almost sleeping while doing this. This creates a very powerful visual image. It epitomizes how the people left to grieve act. Many people stricken by death want to be left alone and bottle themselves up. The first few lines of the poem illustrate how deeply in sorrow the man is. This image should affect everyone. It should make the reader sympathize or even empathize with the man. Another main way he uses imagery is through the black bird or the raven. The presence of the bird is a bad omen. It is supposed to be followed by maleficent things. The bird is used to symbolize death figuratively and literally. The bird only says one word the entire poem. It repeats “nevermore.” This word can be interpreted multiple ways each time it is said. It is also possible that the bird is not talking. It is possible that the bird is an image created by
How each author addresses the concept of death through word choice and structure is they both use word choice to describe the deaths of the people and a difference that they have is they talk about two different thing/objects.According to, "Night",it states,"When I awake at daybreak,I saw Juliek facing me,hunched over,dead." and according to ,"Death and Chocolate",it states,"Perhaps ten meters to my left the pale,empty-stomached girl was standing,frost-stricken."Both of those quotes show the similarities because it shows how they are both describing the perished by using work choice because it is describing and by using structure because it has very short length words which can create a sad and depressing tone.According to ,"Night",it states,"Next
The life of Edgar Allan Poe was one often colored by tragedy. These tragedies were a strong source of influence for his writings and likely contributed to his focus on the bleaker aspects of life. Born in 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, Poe’s life with his biological family was short lived. His father, David Poe, left the family only two years after his birth, and shortly after in December 1811, his mother Elizabeth Poe died from illness leaving him an orphan (Quinn 47). The death of a parent at such a young age is something that would undeniably have a profound impact on anyone’s psyche. In the case of Poe, the death of his mother and later the serious illness, and subsequent death of his wife, Virginia, could be seen as one of the strongest motivations for his focus on death and obsession over loss (Quinn 496). This unfortunate childhood was compounded by the difficult relationship Poe had with his foster parents, John and Fanny Allan (Dhahir). Poe’s ...
in the short stories a Rose for Miss Emily, the Lottery and the drama Before Breakfast there is one theme they all have in common, death. People handle death in their own way some mourn for the loss of a loved one others fear death even if it’s for the benefit of others and some even take their own lives to escape a miserable life on this earth. Only by watching people and how they react to death is the only way of knowing how certain people handle death. In these three stories the author uses diction to display the human condition, shock of death.