The struggle to survive causes tension throughout the people living in the house. Also, Ethan wanted to move to the city after one year but when he asked Zeena about it, she suddenly got sick. It gives off a dark and hopeless mood. This contributes to the theme of “Lonliness leads to bad decisions,” because he feared of being alone so he married Zeena and he still feels alone because he doesn’t love her. He then makes the bad decision to kill both himself and Mattie.
Undoubtedly, the plague causes the disintegration of families in the town. By structuring her novel as a retrospective narrative that is our protagonist, Anna Frith describes of what had happened in the book, enables the audience to adopt the sense of doom and horrors occurred during the time of the catastrophe. We are exposed to pain and grief that Anna feels when she lost her children whom she ‘loved from the moment she first reached down and touched the crowd’ of her children because of the plague, which results in her ‘(fighting) the sexton when he came to take Jamie’s body away’. Brooks clearly demonstrates and explores that the crisis such this plague can destroy
I hated myself every time I had to tell them mummy was too tired to play in the garden or to tackle the walk to the nearest park. I knew they would grow up to hate this condition as much as I did but I felt helpless to change our situation. In the year that followed the diagnosis, I allowed the endometriosis to take over my life, slowly destroying every aspect. I had previously achieved a successful career in banking. After ten years of hard work and tears, working my way up from the bottom of the career ladder with no real qualifications, juggling nurseries, schools and child minders, missing sports days and Christmas productions, I had finally achieved an incredible position and I was truly proud to be a Branch Manager.
But in hind’s sight, he wants his father to fight for his life and not give in. Emotionally, having to watch someone die is the worst thing that can happen to anyone. It is excruciating being that the person has no way to help this person while they are in pain. Although we are set to face imminent death one day, you always hold to the hope that you will continue to live as long as you can. This is what Dylan was trying to express to his father on his dying bed as he says, “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day, rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Dylan’s father was a soldier, and as his son, he saw his father as a figure that could never die.
The Holocaust ruined numerous lives, including that of Evelyn Roman, who wrote “Aftermath”: a sorrowful poem that described her feelings about the concentration camps. Wiesel and Roman both share different and insightful outlooks about their experiences in the toughest part of their lives. They still remember a great deal of details “fifty years after the fact…” that they wish could vanish in an instant (1). Wiesel and Roman wondered every minute why they endured those experiences: no human deserves the horror they survived. Knowing that someone actually lived these stories made it almost unbearable to
Bundy’s first girlfriend and true love broke up with him because she didn’t think that his live was going anywhere and he became very depressed. Bundy accepted this expectation of himself which led him to stop going to classes, drop out, and begin a horrific murder spree to help gain back his confidence. This criminological theory also says that when social bonds or relationships start going down the drain then violent behavior or deviance can begin to take place. As mentioned earlier, Bundy had a very interesting family situation that contributed to his behaviors. He was told that his grandparents were his parents and that his actual mother was his sister.
In fact, at a young age Edgar was so afraid that he would be too scared to pass cemeteries in fear that ghosts and bodies would actually come after him (Meyers). Death and dying was actually one of the most prominent themes in his works because of his fear and how affected he was with the deaths of his loved ones. This theme is shown in most, if not all, of his famous works including, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “William Wilson” and “The Pit and the Pendulum”. In “The fall of the house of Usher” and “William Wilson”, Edgar Allan Poe’s denial of death is clearly exhibited as in both nothing seems to stay buried, and characters cling to the past. In “The Pit and the Pendulum” death is shown as the narrator has been sentenced to death and is put in a prison.
Social rejection was a constant worry, so survivors kept their history a secret (Chaitin-1). Acknowledgement for the crimes committed against them was their most fervent wish (Chaitin-2). Little did they know, along with the rest of the world, an even deadlier weapon was being created just after the initial
In the poem ‘Poppies’, the mother feels very sad; “Three days before Armistice Sunday and poppies had already been placed on individual war graves” this is a reminder that war kills people which makes her sad as her son might be killed in war. She also feels very scared; “I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer” this suggests that she might be thinking of her son which wounds her emotionally as he might be wounded in war. Similarly, the mother in ‘At the Border, 1979’ also feels very emotional as they are going back to their homeland; “We are going home”, this suggests that the mother is very happy that they are back, however, the narrator doesn’t seem to understand why the adults become very emotional when the two countries looked identical. In “At the Border, 1979”, Choman Hardi uses a child perspective to view the absurdities of both adult behaviour and borders that were caused by conflicts. In this poem, the narrator doesn’t understand why crossing the border was very important to the adults when it’s physically easy to cross.
From the very beginning, the views were bombarded with horrible and tragic animations of Meryl dying, the animations were thoughts Meryl had been the result of her, constantly being exposed to deaths. When Meryl comes back from her father’s funeral, she begins to imagine how she would die, where it is a train derailing and crushing her, getting run over by a car while crossing the road or just being strangled by a stranger she just saw. These animations tell the viewer how Meryl is obsessed with imagining extremely pessimistic situations, the animations don’t always occur when Meryl experience something tragic but it’s constantly swimming through her thoughts. For example when Nick and Meryl make love, Meryl imagines she gets AIDS or end up with multiple sick and deformed babies. Meryl’s animations always revolve around her getting killed or end up in a horrible situation, which illustrates the fears and anxieties she is experiencing.