The grief over Susie’s tragic death takes a massive toll on the Salmon family and tears them apart. It brings out underlying issues between them and causes them to avoid each other in fear of breaking down. In Jack and Abigail’s case, it also destroys their relationship. The grief and guilt that results from Susie’s death infects her whole family. Analyse the theme of grief and how it impacts on at least 4 of the major characters.
The themes that occur every day and in the novel “Destroying Avalon” and the film “The Colour Purple” are death/loss, bullying and relationships. Death/loss is something that occurs every day in society and people must overcome it to move on with their lives. Death is an equaliser to mankind regardless of our social structure, we all view death as a sadness because it is the end of our physical relationships. However the death of a young person is what creates the most despair for those who are left behind. For example in “Destroying Avalon” Avalon had to face the death of her best friend Marshall who took his own life because of being bullied for so many years and not letting anyone to support him through his tough times.
There's racial discrimination toward them, Sanaubar leaving, Hassan's harelip, and the soldiers' taunting of Hassan. We soon learn, however, that Amir has anything but a charmed existence. Amir's mother died giving birth to him. It's clear he feels a great lack in his life, and he throws himself into poetry and writing, we think, partly as a tribute to her. In addition, Amir feels an enormous amount of responsibility for his mother's death – as if he not only caused it but, more sinisterly, was responsible for it.
Linda Hogan’s memoir, The Woman Who Watches Over The World, is a beautiful narration of her life, filled with internal struggles and conflicting pasts. In attempts of surviving a difficult childhood, she found herself in a “broken” world, filled with illness and pain. The fight through pain, present not only in her body but also her spirit, helped her reunite with her native past. Her native past become her refuge, guiding her through life and its struggles. The book showcases how Hogan in her struggle through illness and healing finds love in pain and a spiritual refuge in her ancestral past.
Wide reading assignment: change/changing perspective The little prince Plot- this classic tale is about a pilot who is flying alone across the Sahara dessert. When his plane crashes it is badly damaged and leaves him with little means of food or water and slim chance of survival. One night the man is awoken by a very serious little blonde boy who asks the man to draw him a sheep. Slightly puzzled by the boy’s request, nevertheless he obliges, and the narrator slowly gets to know the little prince, the pilot learns that the little prince comes from a tiny planet or rather an asteroid that is scarcely bigger than himself. The little prince took great care of his planet, preventing any bad seeds from growing and making sure it is not over run but the nasty baobab trees.
The very first example of this is when Tom leaves town without a word while Daisy is suffering immense pain and loneliness due to the birth of their first daughter. He is “God knows where” when Daisy needs him the most, and she feels “abandoned” in the hospital without him (Fitzgerald 16-17). This is one of the many disappointments during Tom and Daisy’s marriage, yet Daisy does not leave him. It is in this way that Tom Buchanan is abusive to his wife, and in this particular situation, Daisy suffers emotional abuse. Physical abuse, as well as emotional abuse, is evident in many scenes of the novel.
Likewise, the hardships Tom had to endure as a child toughened his soul and sharpened his mind. Abandoned by his alcoholic father, Tom lived in “a miserable tworoom tenement” (Anderson 650) with his mom and siblings. The situation went from bad to worse when his mother passed away, leaving her little children uncared for. Tom, who was just 10 years old at that time, forced himself to overcome grief and to hold himself together for the sake of his siblings. He even shoved his father off in the funeral of his mother and worked arduously to fend for his family.
Analysis of “The Wall” When humans go through a very hard time we can have problems showing our feelings. Instead we lock them up in our self, and create a place inside us filled with hate, anger and guilt. This is also what happens to the main character in the film “The Wall”, Pink. Pink has felt a lot of pain in his life. He lost his father in war, his wife was him unfaithful, he had controlling teachers in school, and he had to deal with a very overprotective mother.
In the beginning of the story, Frost places the wife standing at the top of the stairs and grieving while her husband is at the bottom of the stairs emotionally inferior and indifferent towards the death of their only son. In this sense, the house is flawed and in order to correct this flaw, the man begins to climb the stairs. Once the man and wife are both on the same level, the wife runs to the bottom of the stairs and threatens to leave the house entirely because of the man’s indifferent emotions. The husband wants his wife to stay home, because he feels she is overreacting. However the wife leaves, confining the husband to his home alone.
That the marriage is crashing down on her life and she feels dead inside and the tigers are the only one keeping her will to be happy again. “When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie, still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.” (9-10) Aunt Jennifer is terrified of her husband and that she did not live a joyful, happiness marriage instead a terrifying, sorrow and misery underneath