Still life

“A Summer Tragedy” authored by Arna BonTemps, was a short story about an older couple, Jeff and Jennie Patton, whose life was full of grief, many hardships and most of all despair, that ultimately led to the couple committing suicide. The setting of the story was during a time of economic depression and most Blacks were still working for white people. Jeff and Jennie were just an old black couple, with sicknesses and injuries, a lot of debt, and with a bunch of lost hope. With a distressingly…

through life is at its end. However, he refuses to simply accept his fate and expresses reluctance to go. Frost uses an extended metaphor, specific diction and parallelism to convey the speaker’s unwillingness to accept the continuity of life. Throughout the first stanza the speaker recounts a life full of travel and adventure. The terms “fields” and “woods” suggest the wilderness; “fields,” “walls,” and “highway,” reflect civilization. This juxtaposition suggests that he has led a long life…

to have children and her inability to do so. After three cycles of in vitro fertilization (IVF), Susan was still unable to become pregnant and the already strained marriage fell apart. Susan’s husband was killed not long after. Susan still wants a child and decides to use the remaining embryos created through IVF in attempts to have a baby. She believes that her ex-husband’s name could still live on through the child, but the likelihood of conceiving is low; the embryos have been frozen for some…

and was on his way to reading hospital. He would need surgery and have his leg removed. She said this was one of the hardest days of her life . All he was doing was working hard trying to make a living. In her early life she went through a unthinkable hardship. At age 8 she lost her father in a mining accident. She said this was the worst memory of her life. This day was a day she will never forget from the weather to what time she found out. In highschool she had a Science teacher named…

narcissist” (Albom, 2007). Although the interview started this way, Morrie and Ted Koppel formed a bond. Morrie always treated everyone with respect and was always ready to listen to someones problems. Morrie once said, “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in” (Albom, 2007). This qoute by Morrie shows the importance of openning up to people around you. Morrie was very open to everyone and listened to their problems with respectful ears. As more…

her to lay a trap for the Highwayman in order to murder him. To alert the Highwayman, Bess breaks free from her hold and pulls the trigger of the rifle that is tied to her. This warning was for the Highwayman and resulted in the high price of Bess’s life. He in turn hears of this fateful death of his true love and he is overwhelming succumbed by love for Bess, he recklessly rides into the enemy on the highway and is killed. The Highwayman it is a romantic poem which shows the extent of love…

outcome of the life that everybody can 't get rid of. People the "death" to give the imagination, all kinds of stories about ghosts and legends is also due to the fear of dead, and most of the poems of the description of "death" is the awful fear and ghastly, but Emily Dickinson is different. Dickinson is the United States in nineteenth Century, the famous female poet, to express the outstanding views of death. Her "Because I could not stop for Death", the poet describe a from life to death of…

reflects on the poverty in her childhood and creates feelings of sympathy and appreciation for the simple pleasures in life. Despite the speaker’s situation, she still finds the good in life. The literary device of repetition is used in the poem to convey the theme of always to focus on the good rather than the bad and to emphasize that although there is poverty in the speaker’s life, she still remains positive. Repetition, or a refrain, is seen at the end of each stanza. This repetition or…

them became ripple effects within their lives. That was where deep, emotional, or painful moments had happened. Psychologists called those moments nonnormative life events. Normative life events “are unusual occurrences that have a major impact on the individual’s life” (Santrock, 2013, p. 5). For me, I remembered my own nonnormative life event like it was yesterday. 5 years ago, my grandmother passed away without a notice. I was 16 at the time when I first heard the tragic news about my…

music artist, sang this song with great pleasure after song writers Tim Nichols and Craig Wiseman wrote it due to health scares in their families. It’s a common misconception that individuals may never be faced with near life death situations. However, at any given moment one’s life can be taken short, sometimes knowing death will come, or never expecting death will affect one. Cystic fibrosis is a one of the leading causes of death in the US. Imagine waking up every morning struggling to…