When a life is lost, it does not mean the end. Death normally is associated with the termination of a person as well as their spirit. To contrary belief, A Separate Peace and To Kill a Mockingbird show how death impacts those close to someone who has passed and can affect their lives permanently. Although both A Separate Peace and To Kill A Mockingbird both feature the element of death, the main character of A Separate Peace, Gene received a sense of peace from death. Whereas, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem learned a valuable lesson after the passing of his neighbor.
To begin, in A Separate Peace, a young boy with the name of Finny passed due to a piece of bone from his leg traveling to his heart. His dear friend Gene appeared to be undisturbed …show more content…
The woman, Mrs. Dubose, was highly outspoken and was not afraid to speak her mind. Her words to Jem were extremely rude and offensive causing him to act out. Jem destroyed the one thing Mrs. Dubose loved and tried so hard to keep nice, her garden. As a consequence, Jem was required to read to Mrs. Dubose everyday after school for a month. During Jem’s service, he was never aware that the lady was a morphine addict who went through withdrawal. Her withdrawal caused her to be quite feisty. She was a courageous woman who suffered from withdrawal as a result of not wanting to let morphine murder her. Jem’s blindness to her issue explains why he was glad for the month to be over and frustrated when Jem received a box from her since he wanted absolutely nothing to do with her.“Jem opened the box. Inside, surrounded by wads of damp cotton, was a white, waxy, perfect camellia…’Old hell devil, old hell devil!’ he screamed, flinging it down. ‘Why can’t she leave me alone?’” (128). Shortly after this incident, Jem was told of her addiction, including that she had passed away from it. He realized that not everyone lives a lavish lifestyle like him, everyone has their own struggles they deal with each and every day. Shortly after, “Jem picked up the candy box and threw it in the fire. He picked up the camellia, and when I went off to bed I saw him fingering the wide pedals” …show more content…
They leave a significant legacy that lingers and follows us around each and every day. Even though A Separate Peace and To Kill a Mockingbird inherited the element of death, characters in the novels had a different experience with the aftermath of death. The narrator of A Separate Peace, gained a sense of relaxation once his best friend was gone, on the other hand, Jem from To Kill A Mockingbird learned a valuable lesson from his neighbor’s passing and was able to become a mature adult. Therefore, the idea of what people considered death is not accurate all the time, for some death is correlated with a positive turn of
To begin, in A Separate Peace, a young boy with the name of Finny passed due to a piece of bone from his leg traveling to his heart. His dear friend Gene appeared to be undisturbed …show more content…
The woman, Mrs. Dubose, was highly outspoken and was not afraid to speak her mind. Her words to Jem were extremely rude and offensive causing him to act out. Jem destroyed the one thing Mrs. Dubose loved and tried so hard to keep nice, her garden. As a consequence, Jem was required to read to Mrs. Dubose everyday after school for a month. During Jem’s service, he was never aware that the lady was a morphine addict who went through withdrawal. Her withdrawal caused her to be quite feisty. She was a courageous woman who suffered from withdrawal as a result of not wanting to let morphine murder her. Jem’s blindness to her issue explains why he was glad for the month to be over and frustrated when Jem received a box from her since he wanted absolutely nothing to do with her.“Jem opened the box. Inside, surrounded by wads of damp cotton, was a white, waxy, perfect camellia…’Old hell devil, old hell devil!’ he screamed, flinging it down. ‘Why can’t she leave me alone?’” (128). Shortly after this incident, Jem was told of her addiction, including that she had passed away from it. He realized that not everyone lives a lavish lifestyle like him, everyone has their own struggles they deal with each and every day. Shortly after, “Jem picked up the candy box and threw it in the fire. He picked up the camellia, and when I went off to bed I saw him fingering the wide pedals” …show more content…
They leave a significant legacy that lingers and follows us around each and every day. Even though A Separate Peace and To Kill a Mockingbird inherited the element of death, characters in the novels had a different experience with the aftermath of death. The narrator of A Separate Peace, gained a sense of relaxation once his best friend was gone, on the other hand, Jem from To Kill A Mockingbird learned a valuable lesson from his neighbor’s passing and was able to become a mature adult. Therefore, the idea of what people considered death is not accurate all the time, for some death is correlated with a positive turn of