A Difficult Life

that this tragedy would yield to her. In the scene where Louise is alone in the room, Chopin utilizes symbolism and imagery to illustrate how Louise is forever chained to her old life, and will never truly be free. Upon entering the room, Louise allows herself to rest easy in the comfort of a roomy armchair. Just like her life before the news, the armchair is something that will always be there relax her. However, since…

Salesman, Willy Loman goes through many losses that affect his state of mind. The lack of stability in his life caused him to often be on edge. In order to escape the chaotic world around him, where nothing ever seemed to go right, his mind would wander. He would daydream of the things he wished to be reality. He dreamed that the people and opportunities that he no longer had in his life were still there. Soon the lines between dreams and reality blurred, making Willy a loon. The loss of…

I had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Mark, an 87-year-old Caucasian male, living in a nursing home in Ontario, California. This man seemed full of life and definitely made it clear that love is what has played a huge factor in the person is today. This man was born a nuclear home in Chicago in 1929. He was surrounded with loving from his parents and an older brother. However, during his high school years, he and his family moved to Arizona due to the drastic weather in Chicago and his father…

decision like this as well as when experiencing a death. When we think of children, we do not usually think about death. The article “When Living Is a Fate Worse than Death” by Christine Mitchell argues that doctor’s should have the control over deciding life or death for a patient. The author’s argument is ineffective because the text lacks in facts, is one-sided, and gives a negative tone. I believe that both the parents and doctors should be the ones who determine if the patient should live…

For as long I as I could remember, the idea of death never had an personal affect on me. Death to me was the end of a person's life and that was it. When I attended funerals as a child I could see the sorrow in other children's eyes as the men in the family would carry out their grandparents casket from the church. Their tears flowed like a never-ending waterfall of grief. I would hold on to my mother’s arm as tightly as I could while everyone else mourned for their loss. I would whisper into my…

Dysfunctions of the Loman Family Every family is unique and complex, each having their own difficulties. What one family may consider wrong, may not be true for another. Although it is difficult to recognize the dysfunctions within an individual's own family, it is far easier to pick out the abnormalities in another's family. Throughout “Death of a salesman”, the Loman family displays an abundance of dysfunctions in their lifestyle, which is aided by Willy and Lindas co-dependence. To begin…

could have saved his life. John Krakauer wrote a book about Chris called Into the Wild. In this story, Chris McCandless goes on a long, never ending journey to reinvent himself. He gave his college money to charity, burned the money in his wallet, abandoned his car, and buried his possessions in hopes of being able to be fully in touch with nature. He spent two years hiking through North America and Mexico, where he got lost…

Death is inevitable. Every life has a story, and in most cases, the conclusion is death. Some special people live a life where their story continues to be told and in a way they continue to live on while dead. When you die you always leave something behind. Some people leave a loved one, most people leave family, and everyone leaves a trail. There are many different ways death occurs. An individual could die of old age, naturally in their sleep, in a traumatic accident, suicide, disease,…

Most people say that once you have raised a teenager and they turned out to be good and successful people, you can basically conquer anything. That is because raising a teenager is considered to be one of the most difficult jobs in the world, and unfortunately, there is no way that you could quit because their lives are at stake because they need your guidance but at the same time, they also need your full attention and respect. Most parents believe that it is just impossible to raise a teen, it…

the universal struggle between life and death in "The Death of the Moth". Observing the moth, Woolf sees that is trying to accomplish something unattainable by going into and out of a windowpane to get outside. Virginia Woolf sees the moth in another context that recognizes the moth not as insignificant and in demand of pity, but as a small creature of the world. The moth symbolizes the wonder of life and death by being used as an example of the simplicity of life, the need to accept the…