Mortality In Mark Halliday's Chicken Sald

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Mortality, the subject of death, has been a curious topic to scholars, writers, and the common man. Each with their own opinion and beliefs. My personal belief is that one should accept mortality for what it is and not go against it. In the poem “Chicken Salad” by Mark Halliday, the narrator, who is the author, is remembering his final moments before his father's death. This poem corresponds to my belief in mortality, because the son didn't encourage his father to go against one of life’s demeanors. Instead, he went out and got a simple chicken salad knowing it would mean the world to his father. “He remembered a kind of chicken salad he liked weeks ago when living was more possible and he said, ‘Maybe that chicken salad..,’”(876). Though

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