As I Lay Dying

Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communication of the Dying” by Maggie Callan and Patricia Kelley is all about Hospice care nurses. They tell many stories about their dying patients and their families reactions to the death process. Most of the stories show how to better listen to someone who is dying, how to react to certain situations not just initially react but truly analyze the situation, how to make both the dying and the people around them that more comfortable and also…

often give us a peek into the overall message that a book is trying to get across. This is is especially obvious between the parents and children in As I Lay Dying. This dynamic is mirrored through the implicit parental relationship between Janie and Pheoby in Their Eyes Were Watching God. The decaying relationship between Addie and Darl in As I Lay Dying represents the deterioration of the Bundren family as well as the pessimistic nature of the book, while the fulfilling relationship between…

Sam and Life in the book of My Brother Sam is Dead argue a lot , but I think it is because they are so much alike. Whenever Sam comes home from Yale he tells his family about an attack which makes his father mad. Later that day Sam told Tim that he was going to have to take their family gun the Brown Bess. Sam and his father had a argument about the Brown Bess and after the fight that was the first time Tim had seen his dad cry. Later Sam took the gun and went to the war. Tim and Life went on a…

Vali lays dying, he gives Hanuman to Rama and declares that Hanuman and Sugreeva will stand as his allies: “But here is Hanuman who will do it at your command, and also obey you in all matters. Let him serve you. Sugreeva and he will be your invaluable allies” (The Ramayana 104). We can determine through this quote that because Hanuman “will do it at your command” and Sugreeva and him will remain Rama’s “invaluable allies” Hanuman, a loyal character, becomes loyal to Rama as his old ruler lays…

1954 and The Reiver written in 1962 won Faulkner the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Sound and the Fury written in 1929 was ranked number six on the Modern Library’s 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century list that also included As I Lay Dying and Light in August.…

Elizabeth and Reverend Clark both ask him to remove the veil. He refuses by saying, "Creator, loathsomely,treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived and die! I look around me,and lo! on every visage a Black veil!" (Hawthorne 284). Mister Hooper has changed throughout his years of wearing the veil that caused much turmoil and heartbreak. Through his struggles with the veil, it has turned him into…

him. The dark form of humor in this story was not appropriate because loving a corpse who you killed is disgusting. Despite being inappropriate, the humor was effective because it matched well with the dark tone of the story. In Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" a family attempts to fulfill their mother's wish by moving her corpse far away from the town she lived in. The dark humor in this story…

The events portrayed in Stephen Crain’s “The Mystery of Heroism” show that Fred Collins is indeed not a hero. Crain implies this when he writes: “‘I can’t!’ he screamed, and in his reply was a full description of his quaking apprehension.” (Crain n.pag.). Here Collins walks away from a dying soldier in a moment of hesitation. Heroes do not walk away, they always help people in need which directly contrasts with Collins’ actions. Crain further proves that Collins is not a hero when he writes:…

thorn and didn’t put any iodine on it, after a while it festered and became infected. Harry continues not to show any sign of hope “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now”(53). Almost as if harry has given up, Helen calls him a coward maybe provoking his nonchalant attitude towards dying, he feels that it would be easier and more soothing for him to just lay in one place and perish then wait around for help, that he believes may never arrive. The topic of rescue is never stated as a sure thing but…

struggled more? Greasers or Socs? I believe that the Greasers struggled more than the Socs did. They have no money which is hard for living because they can’t buy food but it also gets rougher on them with the Socs always looking for fights. The Greasers are poor and they live in the hood and have gangs and like to get into fights. The Socs are the rich kids who live in nice houses and who hate the Greasers. The two groups always get into fights. I am on the Greasers side. I believe that they…