The Grave Digger

Liesel is a nine year old girl that is torn after losing her brother on a train. Her brother died shortly after coughing. While she dug her brother with the help of her mother she finds her first book, The Grave Diggers Handbook. They were on the way to meet their new foster parents. When they arrived Liesel was quite scared until she realized how kind Hans Hubbermann was towards her. He taught her how to roll cigarettes and that 's were their strong relationship started. Rosa, her foster mom was the same way except she had a different way of showing her love. She would call her "Saumensch" meaning: to plane humiliate a female. Every night for the first few months was nightmares of her brother. Hans would always be there to comfort her through…

Russel was a terribly timid man, so fearful that the villagers labelled him “Russel the Spineless”, yelling various insults as he walked around their little village each day. They did so without fear of retaliation, as they knew he was not brave enough to try anything. Out of all his tormentors, the most profound was the grave digger, who had hated Russel ever since he learnt that Russel was too scared to consider even crossing the cemetery. This man never missed an opportunity to mock him. It…

Upon visiting Grove Cemetery, the first cemetery I have actually taken the time to stop and wander through, I was struck by how the arrangements of the dead make an intense effort to resemble those of the living. The cemetery incorporates the pavement of a central road that diverts off into separate streets, each with their own typical middle-American name. Walking down one of these ‘neighborhoods’ you notice the fenced gates of family burial plots, with an obelisk containing all the names and…

specialization of burials Brown separates the burials into three main categories, disarticulated, partly disarticulated, and articulated. Once these are broken down and each burial’s specializations measured, he concluded that the partly disarticuated remains and the articulated remains are on average unspecualized (Brown, 1971, p. 98). This charcteristic shows less manipulation of the body after death for those in burials with less protected and elaborate burials. To even further the evidence…

surroundings, which prompts her to recall certain things which eventually lead her to recall the time Mariana took Zulema and the narrator to see Isabella’s grave for the first time, with the narrator mentioning how she had felt anxious which prompted her to wonder if Zulema had felt the same way. This is a telling part of the story as it gives more indication as to how close the narrator was to her aunt that she was able to share such an intimate moment with them, and prompted the narrator to…

the cemeteries is that they are able to memorialize individuals so the identity of the deceased is enshrined within the site. To do so, the gravesite must be divided by roads and paths and each grave must have its own ‘address”, giving the families a sense of control over that particular part of land where the grave is present. In the past cemeteries offered families rights over burial plots so the remains of the deceased would never be removed. Additionally, apart from the certain physical…

black trees looked as if they were touching the sky. Every movement in the quiet forest by the cemetery was a yell in the silence. Johnny and his friends were playing in woods by the cemetery and heard a bell ringing. Being curious the boys went to investigate the sound. They peered out of the trees to the side of the cemetery. What they saw were graves and grave markers looking as eerie as ever in the moonlight. What drew their attention to the new grave none of them ever knew but as they…

What was it like to be depressed and all alone at the boundary waters? For Shiloh it would be one of the last days for her. Cork and William are in trouble while trying to find his disappearing daughter, Shiloh. They have trouble finding her but they find her in a hidden cabin all alone. Shiloh is either in trouble or she has committed suicide while she was at her cabin. I am predicting that Shiloh, William Raye’s daughter commit suicide while she was in the wilderness of the boundary waters. I…

Popular belief was that the soul could rest only when the body has been laid in a proper grave. The period from the fifth to the tenth century the sarcophagi fell out of use and became very limited to the wealthy and prominent Christians in Roman society. By the Middle Ages sarcophagi were rarely used and were beyond the reach of the majority of Christian members. Likewise, catacombs and underground burial places were out of date during the eighth and ninth centuries, despite the importance of…

About one hundred and fifty-five years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave “The Gettysburg Address” on a blood soaked battlefield in Pennsylvania (Brown). “The Gettysburg Address” was first verbalized months after the battle of Gettysburg at a service to dedicate the opening of the national cemetery (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Lincoln’s Address was spoken to the citizens and soldiers of the union in the wake of the second invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee (The Battle of Gettysburg Facts…