Essay on Divorced, Beheaded, Survived

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Divorced, Beheaded, Survived Sadly, during life everybody will experience loosing someone. The following effect, which the loss has on people, surely varies. It hits some harder than others – but no one can deny that it’s a com-pletely miserable feeling. The pain and sorrow, the awful mood, you get when you lose a relative or someone close to you - the feeling, which you might never get rid of. You’ll try to get rid of it, move on, forget what has happened, but you can’t throw away the feeling completely. Eventually, you have to try and accept the loss and you might gradually reduce the reaction over time. This feeling is well known to the main character in this short story. In Divorced, Beheaded, Sur-vived you’ll hear about a mother having to deal with a loss of her son’s friend, Peter, who died in a car accident. It’s not the first time the mother, whose name is Sarah, has experienced a death of a relative. The death of Mark’s friend Peter, reminded the mother of her brother, who passed away, and their childhood when they we’re together. When Sarah was younger she ran around role playing in her backyard with her brother, Terry, and their friends after school. They used to have fun acting like they beheaded the wives of Henry VIII of England. Unfortunately, Terry suddenly became sick and later on passed away at the age of 13. Now they all had to cope with losing a person important to them in reality. The following effect of the death made the main character and all the friends, ultimately, stop talking to each other. The short story starts in medias res, as you get thrown into the scene of the narrator playing with her brother and friends, right away. The story is told from the narrator’s perspective in first person. It’s also built around jumping back to the past of the Sarah’s childhood, and then 30 years forward to present time. The structure of the

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