In the books, Sounder and Our Town, written by, William H. Armstrong and Thornton Wilder, both set off a tone of life and death. In the newbery winner, the boy lost two very important figures in his life, the dog and his father. It explained how he suffered through much pain during his lifetime, but in the end after his father and Sounder passed, he must learn to keep living life even if they won’t be there with him. Along with the play, it gave an outlook of birth, life, and death just like the other novel. It demonstrated how the Webbs suffered many deaths of their two children. Sadly it never interpreted what happened after the death of Emily and how much things have changed and how it affected the characters. During George and Emily’s wedding, …show more content…
Mr. Webb stated, “I’m giving away my daughter, George. Do you think you can take care of her?” George responded with a yes, but was never expecting that one day he would lose her. The only concept that was never exposed, was that they never introduced the way life would be to the Webb’s and the boy without both of their children and his father. Mr.
Webb was a strong man, but very old. He always knew the right thing to say, but made it very awkward with the conversations he had with George. Once before, Mr. Webb lost his son Wally once before and managed to live through it, but he never expected for his daughter Emily to pass away. The fact that he has lost both of his children is heartbreaking, but the book ended at just that. They never explained what life would be like without Emily and George. Yes, Emily did move out of the house, but it is worst to live with the fact that you know she is not living in the world anymore. Mr. Webb may be sad for a long time, but soon he will learn that it was for the best. Emily died giving birth to her second child. Almost nobody even expected her death and that is why it was so frightening. Emily herself stated ¨I can't bear it. They're so young and beautiful. Why did they ever have to grow old? Mama, I’m here. I’m grown up. I love you all, everything.-I can't look at everything hard enough.” For Emily it was hard to let her parents go, but for Mr. Webb it was easier because he had such a good heart and knew that everything happens for a …show more content…
reason. Mrs. Webb is also Emily’s mother and is married to Mr. Webb. She always bonded with Emily and also suffered the death of Wally, but at that period of time, Emily was still alive. Life without Emily would be very hard and it was not easy to get over that fact that both children have recently passed. Mrs. Webb always stared at the kitchen table remembering about when George came in on their wedding day and wanted to see Emily, but Mrs. Webb exclaimed, “George, Emily’s got to come downstairs and eat her breakfast.” She said that almost every day, until she finally moved out of the house. In the novel, Sounder, the boy bonded with his dog and was about the only person in his family that actually cared for him.
He never let anything or anyone hurt his dog and the dog never let the boy become wounded. Along with the boy’s father, they had a very special connection as well. The father taught him about manhood and how to take care of his siblings. One day, the father was arrested for theft and Sounder was shot and soon disappeared. A red faced man yelled at the boy “Get up! You wanna take a day?” The deputy did not understand what the boy was feeling, but it did not help at all, it just made it worse. Not long after this tragic event, they both passed away and left the boy alone to find a new path to take. At first, he took his father's advice and took care of his family, but knew he couldn’t do it so he decided to do what he loved most and that was
teaching. Mr. and Mrs. Webb may have experienced something not many people would want to go through, but managed to live through the pain. Emily, was the one to learn about life after she passed away. Mrs. Gibbs warned her about the dangers of going back through the past. Emily went ahead and looked at life with her parents, but came back and said, “No… I should have listened to you. That’s all human beings are! Just blind people.” The boy from the Newbery Winner, also learned that death and birth are both very different things, but yet one leads to another. Death and birth may be complete opposites, but both share one thing in common, they are frightening. You may be scared of birth because you might feel like motherhood is to challenging or being a father is nerve racking, and death is sad and you may be scared that by the time you die, you may not have actually lived. It took a matter of time for Mr. and Mrs. Webb to realize this and including the boy, but in the end, you can’t live without holding happiness and sadness.
Emily was lying in bed when all of a sudden she heard a loud knock on her door in the middle of the night. She went to go see who it was and fortunately it was her good old friend Johnny Surrat whom she hadn't seen in a long time, Johnny had said he was away on business, well he came in and he talked to her and asked how her and her mom were surviving since their slave had been set free before President Lincolns death. He gave her twenty gold pieces and said he was on an important mission and that he didn't know when he would be back. Emily lived with her mother who was dying. And she took care of her mother till the day she died. When her mother died at first she was kind of relieved that it was all over yet she really missed her mom. Before her mother had died, her mother told her whatever she did not to go live with her uncle but her uncle somehow got legal custody of her. And she was sent to go live with him. Her uncle said that he was a doctor and he had many patients that would come to his house and he would help many people and she always wondered why her mom hated him so much he seemed like a good man.
The historical information provides a background for the cultural impact. Dealing with loss is a part of the information. It is a hard thing to do, and the Welch children had to do that in their memoir. When dealing with loss, children need a stable environment because they might think what they have done caused the death ("When" 1). Children can be easily swayed, so they might formulate their own theory as to how their loved one died. Consequently, they might think of it to be their own fault; they have no one else to give the blame, so they drop it on themselves. Also, "children need help to cope with their grief when a parent dies" ("When" 1). Kids need someone to talk to about their loss. The person should have an understanding of children. Another part of this information is family. Family is necessary. Not just for the reproduction of mankind, but also for the physiological growth it develops (Lasch-Quinn 1). Being a part of today's family is more about providi...
The boy’s mother will take the easy way out for herself so that she won’t have to fight through the pain. By taking her own life, she will leave the boy in the father’s hands. The boy misses his mother everyday
Near the end of the story, after describing Miss Emily’s life, Faulkner catches up to present day where Miss Emily has died. He explains how Emily’s cousins came once they heard of her death and buried her. The cousins all walk into Miss Emily’s room which greeted them with a bitter smell.
The book Kooser shares these stories know that he is not just the only one that goes through this thing like breath of a loved one that was sick. “if you had lived we would all be miserable” and at time we think of what would have happened if our loved one were still alive, he tells his father what would have happen he tells him of how unhappy he would have been, “I miss you every day” this just changed all tone of the poem telling his daddy I still miss you and it doesn 't matter what if you were sick or not. And the last stay he uses in the book and this poem is having a good ending, here is this poem he shares him daddy best time and memory,” today lilacs are blooming in the side yards all over Iowa still welcoming
This blues poem discusses an incredibly sensitive topic: the death of Trethewey’s mother, who was murdered by her ex-husband when Trethewey was nineteen. Many of her poetry was inspired by the emotions following this event, and recounting memories made thereafter. “Graveyard Blues” details the funeral for Trethewey’s mother, a somber scene. The flowing words and repetition in the poem allow the reader to move quickly, the three-line stanzas grouping together moments. The poem begins with heavy lament, and the immediate movement of the dead away from the living, “Death stops the body’s work, the soul’s a journeyman [author emphasis]” (Tretheway 8, line 6). Like the epitaph from Wayfaring Stranger, Trethewey indicates that the dead depart the world of the living to some place mysterious, undefined. The living remain, and undertake a different journey, “The road going home was pocked with holes,/ That home-going road’s always full of holes” (Trethewey 8, line 10-11). Trethewey indicates that the mourning is incredibly difficult or “full of holes”, as she leaves the funeral and her mother to return home. ‘Home’ in this poem has become indicative of that which is not Trethewey’s mother, or that which is familiar and comfortable, in vast contrast to the definition of home implied in the
Spending time with each other, having strong morals and giving a lot of love are a few of the things that give families hope and happiness. In the novel A Death in the Family (1938) by James Agee, a family has to use these advantages in order to make it through a very difficult time. During the middle of one night in 1915, the husband, Jay, and his wife, Mary, receive a phone call saying that Jay's father is dying. Ralph, the person who called, is Jay's brother, and he happens to be drunk. Jay doesn't know if he can trust Ralph in saying that their father is dying, but he doesn't want to take the chance of never seeing his father again, so he decides to go see his father. He kisses his wife goodbye and tells her he might be back for dinner the next day, but not to wait up for him. Dinner comes and goes, but he never arrives. That night, Mary gets awakened by a caller saying that Jay has been in a serious auto accident. She later finds out that he died. The rest of the novel is about Mary and her family's reactions to the death. This experience for Mary and her family is something that changes their lives forever, but it doesn't ruin them. If someone has a close person to them decease, he or she feel as if they cannot go on, but because of the close family ties that Mary, Jay, and their children shared, they know that they will be able to continue on after Jays death.
The children have not been exposed to the outside world where in such places, death was not taken lightly because it was not accepted as a norm. Also in the larger more connected city centers, there were places to go and people to speak to about how they were feeling. The children soon realize that the teacher which has been sent to them cares about their wellbeing and grief process, where the three previous may not have put so much regard into the topic. As the children and the teacher reach Yolandes grave, the teacher feels the isolation in a literal sense, “We came to a wooden cabin standing in isolation among the little trees.” the teacher saw how many of the children lived and realized how detached the children really are.
Emily had a servant so that she did not have to leave the house, where she could remain in solitary. The front door was never opened to the house, and the servant came in through the side door. Even her servant would not talk to anyone or share information about Miss Emily. When visitors did come to Emily’s door, she became frantic and nervous as if she did not know what business was. The death of Emily’s father brought about no signs of grief, and she told the community that he was not dead. She would not accept the fact that she had been abandoned because of her overwhelming fear. Emily’s future husband deserted her shortly after her father’s death. These two tragic events propelled her fear of abandonment forward, as she hired her servant and did not leave the house again shortly after. She also worked from home so that she never had a reason to leave. Emily did not have any family in the area to console in because her father had run them off after a falling out previously. She also cut her hair short to remind her of a time when she was younger and had not been deserted. Even though people did not live for miles of Emily Grierson, citizens began
Cummings uses the seasons, bells, his unique composition and the repetition of “Women and men” and “anyone” to create and emphasize the unfortunate cycle of life. The use of the seasons in lines three,eleven, and thirty-four emphasise the passing of time and the unchanging ways of the townspeople. “Women and men”, in lines five and thirty-three,are used to remind us of Cummings definition of “most people” and how people tend to blend in and follow. The bells in lines two and twenty-four are used to indicate a change in the character 's, the first bell is before love and the second bell is rang before death. These significant life transitions show how love and death are final.
As time went on pieces from Emily started to drift away and also the home that she confined herself to. The town grew a great deal of sympathy towards Emily, although she never hears it. She was slightly aware of the faint whispers that began when her presence was near. Gossip and whispers may have been the cause of her hideous behavior. The town couldn’t wait to pity Ms. Emily because of the way she looked down on people because she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and she never thought she would be alone the way her father left her.
He was the only man in her life, and after his death, her behavior became even more unnatural. However, her father's death cannot be seen as the only cause of Miss Emily's insanity. Miss Emily's behavior was also influenced by her own expectations of herself, the townspeople's lack of authority over her, and her neighbor's infatuation with her. The narrator tells us the Griersons had always thought too highly of themselves and no doubt Emily shared this opinion with her belated family. After her father's death, she was the last of the Griersons.
comes near his daughter. After living like this for so many years, Emily is left with
Emily’s isolation is evident because after the men that cared about her deserted her, either by death or simply leaving her, she hid from society and didn’t allow anyone to get close to her. Miss Emily is afraid to confront reality. She seems to live in a sort of fantasy world where death has no meaning. Emily refuses to accept or recognize the death of her father, and the fact that the world around her is changing.
When her father passed away, it was a devastating loss for Miss Emily. The lines from the story 'She told them her father was not dead. She did that for three days,' (Charter 171) conveys the message that she tried to hold on to him, even after his death. Even though, this was a sad moment for Emily, but she was liberated from the control of her father. Instead of going on with her life, her life halted after death of her father. Miss Emily found love in a guy named Homer Barron, who came as a contractor for paving the sidewalks in town. Miss Emily was seen in buggy on Sunday afternoons with Homer Barron. The whole town thought they would get married. One could know this by the sentences in the story ?She will marry him,? ?She will persuade him yet,? (Charter 173).