“Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies,” written by John Edgar Wideman in 1992 is a rigorous astonishing short story where the narrator starts off by expressing “They say you see your whole life pass in review the instant before you die. How would they know? If you die after the instant replay, you aren’t around to tell anybody anything.” But how can you have your life flash before your eyes if you have never had one to review? Throughout the story because there is nothing to “replay” the author instead before the time of the newborn’s death portrays such visions what her life could have been like and shares her thoughts, leaving you with examples from settings all the way to owning regrets, though her life was short, she feels as if her life was
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Early in the section called “The Floor of Facts” it is conveyed in the text of the new born being aware of birth, but also having knowledge of the day of the death which was Monday, August 12, 1991. Only to be discovered by a Housing Authority caretaker who goes by the name of Ernesto Mendez but it was too late the headlines read “Newborn is Thrown in Trash and Dies”. In addition, to the floor of facts the floor of questions soon followed and the feelings and thoughts towards her mother are newly discovered. She exclaimed how she questioned and felt how “The Floor of Facts” should’ve been the ground floor a solid start so to speak. Even though her mother did what she did, she has no ill advised feelings towards her, nor does she believe her mother despises her in any fashion, but instead she believes she has a father out there in the world who if he one day comes across this message shall feel ashamed and heartbroken. Questioning herself, she feels it is a must for her to believe in these things because what else does she have. At this point in her own opinion, she states “my death will serve no purpose. The street lights will pop on. Someone will be run over by an expensive car in a narrow street and the driver will hear a bump, but consider it of no consequence.” (Wideman,
Early in the section called “The Floor of Facts” it is conveyed in the text of the new born being aware of birth, but also having knowledge of the day of the death which was Monday, August 12, 1991. Only to be discovered by a Housing Authority caretaker who goes by the name of Ernesto Mendez but it was too late the headlines read “Newborn is Thrown in Trash and Dies”. In addition, to the floor of facts the floor of questions soon followed and the feelings and thoughts towards her mother are newly discovered. She exclaimed how she questioned and felt how “The Floor of Facts” should’ve been the ground floor a solid start so to speak. Even though her mother did what she did, she has no ill advised feelings towards her, nor does she believe her mother despises her in any fashion, but instead she believes she has a father out there in the world who if he one day comes across this message shall feel ashamed and heartbroken. Questioning herself, she feels it is a must for her to believe in these things because what else does she have. At this point in her own opinion, she states “my death will serve no purpose. The street lights will pop on. Someone will be run over by an expensive car in a narrow street and the driver will hear a bump, but consider it of no consequence.” (Wideman,