Loss of a Best Friend Essay

Marilyn Monroe once sang, “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” This lyric about girls and their diamonds makes sense for obvious reasons. Diamonds are shiny, make women feel like princesses, and are a symbol of “love”. However, diamonds have an intimidating competitor, chocolate. No matter how big the “rock” is, some women would prefer delicious, melt in your mouth, chocolate. Their wise decision could potentially have some great upsides to it. For instance, dark chocolate has numerous health…

for giving me this chance, I was scared. In my mind, studying abroad was a really awesome experience. I could meet different friends, learn another language and enjoy a different…

depicts the five stages of loss and grief in an attempt to deal with Ginsberg’s emotional fallout from the loss of his friends. In 1969, Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler defined the five stages of loss and grief as 1.) Denial, 2.) Anger, 3.) Bargaining, 4). Depression and 5.) Acceptance (Kubler Ross & Kessler 2005). The following essay will identify specific lines in which “Howl” uses tone and imagery to portray aspects of all five stages. The first stage of loss and grief is…

auction Curly to a meat processor. The pain of loss he felt having to give up his best friend is similar to what his father felt during the loss of his wife. Jo who watched this event unfold was filled with fear for her future happiness with her beloved boyfriend Nikki. When her father said, “Oh love!,... it's better to learn to say goodbye early than late…” in line 36-37, Jo took this as a warning. Her father lost his wife, her brother lost his best friend, and now it was her turn to learn the…

party she had observed that her friend group had broken up and the group no longer existed . "There is no point in looking for my ex-friends. Our clan, the Plain Janes, has been splintered and the pieces are being absorbed by rival factions, (Anderson, 4)." They soon came to tease her and call her names, then everyone began to hate her, even the people that had not been at the party. Even her best friend Rachel had turned her back on Melinda; if they were best friends would Rachel want to hear…

Siddhartha as he searches for the best way to attain the spiritual bliss, Nirvana. Siddhartha begins his venture towards Nirvana with the notion that no one can teach him anything, he can only learn from the best tutor, himself. However, it becomes apparent that he cannot walk this journey alone. Throughout Siddhartha’s journey, he meets a multitude of unforeseen teachers. He learns from a variety of teachers stretching as far as a river and as close as his best friend. Siddhartha’s teachers the…

In “Out of the Dust” by Karen Hesse, Billie Jo’s family experiences many hardships throughout the book. Billie Jo’s father loses his beloved wife. Billie Jo loses her best friend when she moves to California to get away from the dust. Even through the loss and hardships these characters remain brave ready for the next trial. Through the roughest times during the Dust Bowl there was still a sense of hope that good times would eventually come. One of the first catastrophic events that happened was…

Gilgamesh suffers the loss of his best friend, Enkidu. A parallel experience occurs in Homer’s The Iliad with Achilles and his best friend, Patroclus. In these epics, friendship is a theme that leads to an epiphany within the protagonist. In both instances, Achilles and Gilgamesh undergo a loss that is the catalyst for a monumental shift that develops them into heroes. Gilgamesh meets his equal when Aruru creates Enkidu. Despite a rocky start, Gilgamesh and Enkidu become best friends and go on…

isolated. They tend to lose family and friends because the family and friends don't know how to handle a person who is grieving over the loss of their spouse. Family and friends also typically do not invite the widow or widower out to social gatherings because they feel uncomfortable inviting one person instead of a couple (Kail and Cavanaugh, 2010). This may be just my thought, but I think that sounds silly not to invite the widow or widower out to be with friends and family but I guess it…

The plot of Stand by Me is the emotional loss that the Gordie Lachance feels in relation to the death of his best friend, Chris Chambers, and how the friendship was strengthened then torn apart through a childhood quest. The film’s use of chronological order to tell the story moves from opening scene, to a flashback of events that then leads to the climax, and a fall of action. During the flashback, I see the train tracks as the path of order for the story and the resulting plot. The train track…