Love letters to the Dead is a novel written by Ava DeLaria and I also found this book to be very helpful in everyday life. I learned from reading this book that you should always watch your surroundings. You should always know who your around, where you’re going and you should always tell somebody where you’re going. I also learned that family is very important and that we should never take them for granted.
In this book the narrator and main character is Laurel. She is 15 and she is a freshman in high school. And she is fresh in grief, because her older sister who loved excitement and being herself that just died recently in April. Her mom divorced her dad, and went to chase her dreams of becoming an actress in California.
All through the times of the intense expectation, overwhelming sadness, and inspiring hope in this novel comes a feeling of relief in knowing that this family will make it through the wearisome times with triumph in their faces. The relationships that the mother shares with her children and parents are what save her from despair and ruin, and these relationships are the key to any and all families emerging from the depths of darkness into the fresh air of hope and happiness.
Throughout the novel, crucial family members and friends of the girl that died are meticulously reshaped by her absence. Lindsey, the sister, outgrows her timidity and develops a brave, fearless demeanor, while at the same time she glows with independence. Abigail, the mother, frees herself from the barbed wire that protected her loved ones yet caused her great pain, as well as learns that withdrawing oneself from their role in society may be the most favorable choice. Ruth, the remote friend from school, determines her career that will last a lifetime. and escapes from the dark place that she was drowning in before. Thus, next time one is overcome with grief, they must remember that constructive change is guaranteed to
... loss of loved ones like Junior in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Andi in Revolution or faced your own inevitable passing like Hazel Grace in The Fault in Our Stars, you are not alone. In confronting and facing death, these characters learn that death is merely a small part of living. It is an element of the human experience. To return to the wise words of the late Steve Jobs, “Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important…There is no reason not to follow your heart.” Living is the adventure. In facing their fears and sadness, these characters learn how to be courageous, how to hope, how to love, and how to live. Join them on their journeys by checking out one of the spotlighted books at your local library.
“Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson presents Melinda’s (a teenage girl) life as she drifts through her adolescent years, where she struggles to overcome internal depression, as well as typical issues, involving her social life. Melinda’s life in an obscure world, where enigmatic challenges constantly clog her path towards a normal and healthy life, she feels lost and betrayed. Likewise, the boy that raped her attends the same school as her, causing her to have constant memories of the event. Thus, Melinda’s defective life compromising of rape, lack of communication, and depression mirrors the lives of many teens around the world. In addition, this book revolves around the dominant theme of adolescence, resulting to an effect of a realistic- fiction novel.
Over the course of the novel, Celie, became a confident, independent, strong woman. The novel begins with fourteen year old, Celie, As the novel progresses
Pure Love in Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood, through a series of different situations, depicts the lives of typical people facing various obstacles in her short story “Happy Endings”. Despite their individual differences, the stories of each of the characters ultimately end in the same way. In her writing she clearly makes a point of commenting on how everybody dies in the same manner, regardless of their life experiences. Behind the obvious meaning of these seemingly pointless stories lies a deeper and more profound meaning. Love plays a central role in each story, and thus it seems that love is the ultimate goal in life.
Dealing with the problem of learning difficulties in children's books, Theresa Breslin's excellent book “Whispers in the Graveyard (1994)” is chosen to represent children's dyslexia while “The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (1977)” written by Gene Kemp is the other selection related to a late developer. Based on the research, there are some features often identified in children with learning difficulties: being teased or bullied, misbehaviours, and the lack of self-confidence (Prater, 2003: 58). These three elements can be found in both cases, indicating these features are general situations that happen in children’s school times.
The coming of age novel, Atonement by Ian McEwan, discusses guilt, forgiveness, and the complicated nature of love through the struggles of growing up. The novel begins in England during World War II, where 13-year-old Briony Tallis is part of a family with dysfunctional dynamics. Her older sister, Cecilia, experiences true love with the family’s gardener, who is the son of their housekeeper, but their relationship is riddled with many obstacles. Most troubling is that Briony naively imagines their intimacy as something more aggressive towards her sister. Her innocence and shielded view of the world causes an unfortunate series of events that tears the family apart and alters the course of the rest of Briony’s life. In Atonement, McEwan demonstrates the maturation of love and how prosperous, yet destructive love can be between lovers and family alike.
As the last story of James Joyce's short story collection, The Dubliners, "The Dead" is about a young Dubliner's one day of attending his aunts' party and his emotional changes after the party ends. In the paralyzed city the young man feels the atmosphere of death everywhere. And he often has misunderstandings with people, especially women including his wife. From the main character Gabriel's experience, we can see his personal life is in a strained circumstances. This difficult situation is probably caused by his failure to deal with the relationship with the female characters. Many events happen in the story prove that he can not get a real freedom until he understands the value of woman to improve the mutual relationship.
“Real friends never let go” this was undoubtedly the situation for Brynna Chase, not even her dead best friend Erica Shaw wanted to let her go. After moving to a whole new town Brynna and her family thought that she might be able to move on from that fateful night and that stupid dare which caused her best friend to become lost at sea. But when Brynna receives a tweet from Erica’s old account she is sure that Erica wants revenge, or does she? Hannah Jayne’s The Dare follows Brynna’s journey after losing her best friend. She’s influenced along the way by many
At the age of ten, most children are dependent on their parents for everything in their lives needing a great deal of attention and care. However, Ellen, the main character and protagonist of the novel Ellen Foster, exemplifies a substantial amount of independence and mature, rational thought as a ten-year-old girl. The recent death of her mother sends her on a quest for the ideal family, or anywhere her father, who had shown apathy to both she and her fragile mother, was not. Kaye Gibbons’ use of simple diction, unmarked dialogue, and a unique story structure in her first novel, Ellen Foster, allows the reader to explore the emotions and thoughts of this heroic, ten-year-old girl modeled after Gibbons’ own experiences as a young girl.
This story takes place in 2010-2016, where society and personal images had started to change. The story was mainly around the 2010 era when she was in High school, which is said to be the hardest time for girls and their lack of love for their self image. This really tend to show around the era and Stacies story really tends to show us how it all changes. It shows from Stacies years of the age 17 to the age
From the beginning of time two literary themes have emerged: love and death. Both of these elements serve as a building block for literature, they also serve as building blocks for each other. The concept of love and the happiness it could potentially bring is not as joyous when death remains a factor. In both Pale Horse, Pale Rider and The Dead the idea of death before one’s time changes the remaining character’s view of love. Throughout literature the two concepts have always been delicately intertwined.
After seventeen years of the totalitarian regime of General Augusto Pinochet, Chile has re-established itself as a democratic country. After the regime, a commission was established to investigate human rights violations of the dictatorship. The play, Death and the Maiden, confronts the issues of justice and reconciliation. The main character Paulina’s silence has prevented her ability to heal and in order for her to move forward, she needs to know the full truth because the commission will not investigate her case because they will only investigate human rights violations that led to death or presumption of death. When her husband Geraldo Escobar gets a flat tire, he is helped by a Doctor name Roberto Miranda who takes him home.
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Derived from the Danse Macabre, an artistic genre of Late Medieval allegory on the universality of death, the Death and the Maiden motif has been inspiration for works of Art from painting and sculpture to plays and musical compositions. Though this concept has been utilised many times over the centuries, little has been said concerning its allegorical meaning or its psychological impact. Death and the Maiden is a common motif in Renaissance art, especially in painting, and music.