Maternal death

don't know. I received a telegram from the old people's home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Very sincerely yours.' That doesn't mean anything. It might have been yesterday '' This is not a normal reaction of a son to the news of his mother’s death. In the very first lines we find Mesusault’s strangeness to the normal feelings and emotions. Camus has portrayed a distance between Meursault and the readers. By this statement he has no intention to scandalize others. Camus here has portrayed…

Emily Dickinson personified death in the poem “Because I could not stop for Death” by representing death as a person. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me;” In this poem the speaker is communicating as someone who as seen both sides of life,the real life and after life. Because she could not stop for Death—“), death stops for her, hence it does what she could not do for death.. This deep thought that Death shows when it takes time for her enables her to think and gets…

This theme begins to show very early in the story, when George's flock decides to find the person responsible for their shepherd's death; to kick off the investigation, Maple and Mopple work together in order to collect questions for later - "Miss Maple started to collect questions. She told all the sheep to say what they didn't understand and what they'd like to know. She stood in…

as well as the inevitability and sadness of death, through their own experiences and nature. However their poetic styles are vastly different from one another, even though they share certain similarities such as when writing elegy poems, or poetry about the death of their fathers, which can be witnessed in “The mushroom field” and “The Butts”. Many of Heaney’s poems are about his life which is wrapped up in the past and engages with the subject of death and loss in a rather personal and…

Reflection Paper: Suttee or Sati: Victim or Victor In this article, the author firstly introduced Sati, "which is the death of a woman on her husband's funeral pyre"(p.175). The historical background is also given by the author. Sati seems to have a long history. "There have been several attempts to abolish the practice"(p.176), while it seems not successfully abolished. "Some instances still occur, even in the 1980s, and the esteem and devotion paid to the memories of women who have died in…

connection to O’Brien’s first love, Linda. He connects this concept to his past memory of his beloved Linda, who passes away at the age of nine, as he remembers her through stories to bring her back to life and be able to cope with the reality of her death. “Lying in bed at night, I made up elaborate stories to bring Linda alive in my sleep. I invented my own dreams… My dreams had become a secret meeting place, and in the weeks after she died I couldn’t wait to fall asleep at night. I began…

own destiny (Yalom, 2008), and he identified “four ultimate concerns” as the key to all human existence; death, freedom, isolation and meaningless, and stated, “The individual’s confrontation with these facts of life constitutes the content of the existential dynamic conflict” (Yalom, 1980 p. 8). Death is the central part of Yalom’s philosophy, as we are all aware death is inevitable, “death is always with us, scratching at some inner door, walking softly, barely audible, just under the…

allowed the power of these beings to be put in action” (254). We see night aiding the vampires and him being more powerful. Un-coincidently, Lord Ruthven is mostly seen during night parties. After his death he wanted his body to be “exposed to the first cold ray of the moon that rose after his death” (258). His desire to be laid in the moon light is an example of vampires getting their power from the night. It was as if the moon was able to rejuvenate his dead body so he could “live” again. We…

“Attack”, by Siegfried Sassoon, effectively represents a vivid and graphic view of the apathy of war by divulging into the minds of the soldiers, giving a more personal view to his poem. There are many such instances in which Sassoon’s clever diction. Instead of the norm of authors of his time, Sassoon did not emphasize the dramatics of war during the battle; he accentuated the pre-war stage. Firstly, Sassoon divulges into the fears of the soldiers. He does this by construing a grave scene.…

basically lost his life as he would now 'spend a few sick years in institutes' and eventually, at some point, die. We see how he is waiting for the dark in the first line. The 'dark' means death. He is too helpless to put himself in bed as he waiting for 'them' to come. The 'them' might refer to the nurses, or death. He has no choice. He is now not only physically, but also mentally…