The heartbreak from Susie’s tragic murder takes a massive toll on the Salmon family and tears them apart. It brings out underlying issue between them and causes them to avoid each other in fear of breaking down. In Jack and Abigail’s case it also puts a huge strain on their relationship. 1. Shock and Denial The reality of Susie’s death hasn’t yet registered in the character’s minds.
In Mabel’s mind she has nothing to live for and has no reason to continue her depressed life. Mabel can also be with her mother in a sense because spiritually Mabel is already dead. The next major symbol in the story is the pond. The pond represents death, when Lawrence describes the pond when Doctor Fergusson goes in to save Mabel, he says it is “deep”, and “dead cold”, he could ‘smell the cold rotten clay that fouled up the water.” These could also be ways to describe death. The pond is where Mabel dies but is also where things between Mabel and Dr. Fergusson change.
It's musky rank smell reminded her of things dying”(Kaplan 45). Andy is comparing the ocean to becoming a woman. The author is saying that just like being an adult in the world, the ocean is big and unexpected and that death can come at any time. Andy doesn't like the ocean because she wants to be a man. She is scared of the ocean and doesn't understand how her parents can be so comfortable in it.
The All of It opens with Father Declan who has decided to go out fishing for the day on a river beat that seems all too impossible to catch anything. As the day persists, Father Declan reflects upon his clashing ideas concerning of the story told to him by Enda Dennehy, a recent widow of Kevin Dennehy. Kevin and Enda are believed to be married by everyone they know until Enda reveals to Father Declan that Kevin and her are actually brother and sister. Her story exposes that Kevin and her had slept together once but not out of sexual ideas, but out of creation and survival. Enda explains that her father, a mindless drunk, would lock his two children up in a freezing room until on one final occasion he did not come home for almost two days.
He laughs about many things with his wife Norma on their journey through life. The last thing Norma wants to laugh about is Jimmy's cancer. Norma watches people die all through her life and does not want to watch Jimmy die, especially in a humorous way. Can You Laugh at Death of a loved one? What would you do if you found out you were dying of terminal cancer?
But at the start he got bullied and he was scared to join in with some of the boys. Coincidence and parallel incidents are used in the story to make it seem that the course is controlling everything. Stanley is able to break the family curse because he carry’s zero up the mountain and drank the water from the hole he dug and sang the song. Another coincidence is that Stanley drops the spade back down the mountain and has to waste time by going down to get it. In this story Stanley had behaved really well.
/ I thought even the bones would do (Plath 58-60)”. The narrator’s father has died, and feels as though death is the only option to relieve her pain of missing her father. Although the theme of abandonment may not be seen throughout all of Sylvia Plath’s poems, it is common in the few poems mentioned above. In the poem “The Bee Meeting” Plath writes “They are all gloved and covered, why did nobody tell me? /They are smiling and taking out veils tacked to ancient hats.
“Not Waving but Drowning”, by Stevie Smith and “The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner”, by Randall Jarrell are two poems that deal heavily with death and its’ apathy. Both poems handle and view death in two completely different ways. When I first read “Not Waving but Drowning,” I thought that the author was writing of a man drowning in cold deep water faraway from shore with his friends waving back thinking he is ok. But when I read the poem more closely and figuratively the poems meaning totally changed. Thinking about the poem literally is reading the obvious, a man drowning in water.
Pink is drowning and drowning and want to escape but he is not able to do that. Because of Pink’s mother fixation he has problems binding to a woman. In the song “Don’t Leave Me Now” he is singing about his wife and begs her not to leave him. He sings the song right after he find out that she was cheating on him. In the song he asks his wife why she as; “Why Are You Running Away?” and “How Could You Go?”.
Within Emily Dickinson’s life, many of her past friends and family past away around her on a regular basis, which could conclude to the reason why death is described as a usual and cherishable thing in ‘The last night that she lived.’ The second stanza reveals the intensity of the poet’s reaction to the death. The quote ‘We noticed the smallest things’ depicts the eeriness that is in the environment as death has caused everything to become still which makes the narrator notice the minor details. The quote also shows that after a death, people see the environment from a different perspective due to the emotions causing the smaller things to take emphasis. The third stanza discusses the poet's feelings about death. It portrays the poet's jealousy of the death Woman because she died peacefully while others has to live and face the ordeals of life.