Grandpa's Funeral In The Carmichael Show

Grandpa’s Funeral In creating this episode of The Carmichael Show, the writer combines a sense of vulnerability and objectivity of death from each character on the recent death of Joe’s father. Due to the various methods of grieving, society has begun to take a turn and rely on suppressing the natural emotional bond that brings us together in times like these, to residing in getting comfort from social media. We tend to decimate the fact humans don’t use funerals as mourning the death of a loved one or to celebrate their life. It has been transformed to the fact of how we don’t actually know what to do, or how to actually deal with the idea of ourselves dying so we conform together and lie to be accepted when it is time for us to move on. Joe makes the announcement that his father died. The family tries to comfort him thinking he his tremendously sad but he states he already grieved enough from explaining his day running errands and going to Wendy’s multiple times. This statement lightens the mood of death in a way that provides comfort for everyone and places it in a position to talk about. The mom states “Death is not always about grieving, sometimes it’s a celebration, and we believe that when you pass, you go to a better place.” (00:28-1:18). Many people in society agree to this knowledge of …show more content…
Social media’s “take over” of how we respond to natural human transgressions will continue to evolve. With each new model, life will evolve and the more we are susceptible to rely on technology doing the work for us. Not facing the fact we are losing our natural self. From funerals, to simply expressing any emotion, the internet has made us dependent on the forever long fact we have traveled too far into the idea of emotion correctly being brought back to its natural