Maternal death

Thump… Thump thump… Thump… Thump thump, is this what a heart attack feels like? Thump thump… Just stay calm Piper you are fine… Thump… do not draw attention to yourself that will make things worse. “Are you okay, what's wrong”...Thump… play it cool Piper do not ruin this for her… Thump thump… “I'm fine”. I was fifteen when I had my first panic attack. I was at a music festival with my sister and her best friend; It was my first concert. My sister had surprised me with tickets because I really…

2005 at Stanford University, he explains his experience with looking death in the eyes. He makes it apparent that when you know your going to die it will clear your soul and your mind. Death is something no one wants but we all will achieve some day. Steve Jobs also makes it clear that no matter who you are, you don’t want to die, even if it is to get to heaven. The claims that steve jobs makes on the value of life and how death can change it in an instant is more than true, it's reality. When…

and Curley’s wife for her gender. While both characters have incredible dreams where they are not alienated from the rest of the world, they have drastically different deaths because Lennie is cared for by others whilst Curley’s wife does not receive any love at all. Whilst the love they receive makes a big difference in the deaths they suffer, it makes little difference in the life they lead. In fact, Lennie and Curley's…

Family is the most important thing to most people. But, what if they all died and there was no on left? It would be tragic. However, some people never know how long before seeing family will be the last time. In the book Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen, the main character Gabriela loved climbing trees. She was a girl living during the time of the Guatemalan genocide in a Mayan canton. After the war comes, everything changes for her. Gabriela loses all her family except her youngest sibling. They go…

“Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy love story of two teenagers amid the traditional feud of the Capulet and the Montague families. The play ends with the untimely demise of Romeo and Juliet and leaves the audience in doubt about the actual cause of their deaths. Throughout the play we see characters that directly and indirectly oppose Romeo and Juliet’s love. On the surface we see how a series of immature decisions made by Romeo and Juliet lead them to kill themselves, but an in-depth evaluation of…

The subject of war and the loss had deeply influenced poetry on the first half of the 20th century. Poets from all around the world had felt the direct influence of these earth-shattering wars and expressed their passionate responses towards the horrors of war. It was during the times of war in which the poems “Refugee blues” and “Disabled” were written by W.H. Auden and Wilfred Owen respectively. Considered to be some of the most remarkable pieces of literature, they were written in the times…

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” a seemingly quiet peaceful village has a hidden dark side. Once a year, on the 27th of June, the entire town assembles to partake in the lottery, however, instead of winning a tremendous prize the ‘winner’ gets stoned to death. An old black box is the vessel that holds the townspeople fate, and after decades of use, it has become worn and shabby. Every year Mr. Summers tried to convince the townspeople to build a new box, yet every year “the subject [is] allowed…

This incident shows that death and an unhappy remainder of life are inevitable for Werther regardless of whether or not he kills himself because either he will die by his own hand, so to speak, or he will watch himself turn on the person he loves and then be executed as punishment. The very inescapability of the situation further proves that the situation must be out of the control of the characters, especially those of Werther and…

In Franz Kafka’s short story, The Metamorphosis, the reader peers into the life of the Samsa family, seeing the metamorphosis of not only the hard-working son, but also of his three other family members. Over the course of the 100 years of production of The Metamorphosis, there has been many discussions on what Kafka was trying to convey in his morbid and saddening short story. Many discussions include the idea of humanity, and if Gregor still kept his humanity after transforming into a ‘vermin’…

away. The main character of the story is Evie, a catholic minister. She has been working in a prison for five years, even though she is not very comfortable with the environment of the prison. For the first time in her life, Evie has to announce a death notice to a prisoner called Victor. Victor’s grandmother died, so Evie comes to deliver the message. Evie is very confused when she tells Victor the sad news. She expected that he would cry, but he does not even shed a tear. Evie was afraid that…