Loss In Gwilan's Harp And The Last Leaf

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She had overdosed on pills while he was away. This passage is significant and shows how cheap the life of people have become in this society. You can see how little they care about the people dying because to the handymen, bringing a M.D. to help the woman was considered to much of a hassle. This passage also showcases just how common suicide is in the society when one of the handymen mentions that people commiting suicide had become so frequent that they had made machines so that the process would be easier and more convenient. In this passage the handyman also tells Montag that they get calls about people attempting suicide around nine to ten times every night and that the reason they had to go so abruptly was because there was another person who attempted suicide just ten blocks away from Montag’s house.

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The characters in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones are faced with the difficult task of overcoming the loss of Susie, their daughter and sister. Jack, Abigail, Buckley, and Lindsey each deal with the loss differently. However, it is Susie who has the most difficulty accepting the loss of her own life. Several psychologists separate the grieving process into two main categories: intuitive and instrumental grievers. Intuitive grievers communicate their emotional distress and “experience, express, and adapt to grief on a very affective level” (Doka, par. 27). Instrumental grievers focus their attention towards an activity, whether it is into work or into a hobby, usually relating to the loss (Doka par. 28). Although each character deals with

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Phillip and William begin to search the island and the house with still no sight of Armstrong. William decides to go back into the house to go get food while Vera and Phillip continue to stand outside in search for Armstrong. The two hear a crash from outside and go to see that a statue has been pushed out of the second-story of the house crashing down onto William and killing him. Next, Phillip and Vera run to the beach where they find Dr. Armstrongs body on the beach dead due to him being drowned or drowning himself. Vera begins to come convinced that Phillip is the killer and grabs his gun and shoots him. Vera returns back to her room where she finds a noose on her bed. Although she is happy to have survived this far, she starts to feel a strange obligation to complete the last part of the nursery rhyme causing her to hang

In the short story “Sea Oak,” George Saunders presents a family that is struggling with life in the poor neighborhood of Sea Oak. The narrator works as a male stripper in Joysticks, run by Mr. Frendt. The story also revolves around Auntie Bernie, who dies, resurrects, and dies again after advising the narrator, his sister Min, and their cousin Jade to adopt unorthodox and immoral means of making it in life. Two main themes that emerge in Saunders’ work are grief and loss that people suffer in life, and how the society teaches to deal with them, including the loss of a fruitful life, lack of wealth and success, as well as death.

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This very distinct sentence demonstrates her frustration with Phil, Ellen portrays this by purposely repeating the statement three times throughout the story, emphasizing Phil’s death. Goodman primarily writes of Phil’s death and disregards incorporating pleasant emotion towards him, but rather demonstrates him as an ordinary, obese man who is chained to his desk at all times. This image of creates a more composed, grim tone which generates less sympathy from the readers on the behalf of Phil. Goodman is also powerful when it comes to incorporating vivid and immense detail into the passage by her diction and use of rhetoric. The section involving Phil’s wife and children add emotion to the passage as well as having an effect which further engages the readers. It shows that his work came first before his family and the family suffered from his choices. This is exemplified when Phil’s “dearly beloved” eldest son goes to his neighbors to ask what his own father

Finally, the reader is introduced to the character around whom the story is centered, the accursed murderess, Mrs. Wright. She is depicted to be a person of great life and vitality in her younger years, yet her life as Mrs. Wright is portrayed as one of grim sameness, maintaining a humorless daily grind, devoid of life as one regards it in a normal social sense. Although it is clear to the reader that Mrs. Wright is indeed the culprit, she is portrayed sympathetically because of that very lack of normalcy in her daily routine. Where she was once a girl of fun and laughter, it is clear that over the years she has been forced into a reclusive shell by a marriage to a man who has been singularly oppressive. It is equally clear that she finally was brought to her personal breaking point, dealing with her situation in a manner that was at once final and yet inconclusive, depending on the outcome of the legal investigation. It is notable that regardless of the outcome, Mrs. Wright had finally realized a state of peace within herself, a state which had been denied her for the duration of her relationship with the deceased.

Two artists called Sue and Johnsy share an apartment in a community for artists, which gets invaded by a deadly and vindictive disease that spreads and kills many of the members in their community. Johnsy gets infected, gives up any hope of survival, and pins her destiny to one remaining leaf on a vine. A physician tells Sue, Johnsy’s best friend, that her best friend’s chance of survival is slim to none unless she can find something to hope for. After a violent storm, Johnsy looks out and sees the last leaf still intact on the vine. Johnsy decides she still wants to live, and she figures there must be a reason that the leaf she pinned her destiny on did not drop off, even during a storm. Johnsy later finds out that a kind old man called Mr.

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