They feel guilty for the deaths of men in their platoon, for the deaths of Vietnamese, and for their own inadequacies. This leads each individual’s guilt to develop in a different manner and force the individual to cope with the guilt in the best way they see fit. After the war, the psychological burdens the men carry during the war continue to define them. Years after the end of the war, Jimmy Cross goes to visit Tim O’Brien at his home and together they look at old photographs and reminisce. “We paused over a snapshot of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death.
He is overcome with grief as he vividly recalls the flashbacks that he faces when visiting the Memorial for the first time. He is confronted by raw emotion and is determined not let his thoughts consume him. He fights back the tears, “I said I wouldn’t, dammit: No Tears (Komunyakaa 3,4)” that he promised himself not to allow anyone to see. While a simple goal it was not one that is easy to achieve. Although he was a Veteran of the Vietnam War, his grief and pain are reminiscent of most war veterans.
Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick Silver Linings Playbook is about a young man named Pat a former history teacher who tries to get his life back together and reunite with his wife Nikki after spending several months in a neurology hospital. He comes back home to live with his mother and father until he can get by on his own. Pat’s father loves watching football when the Eagles play At home Pat is determined to improve mentally and physically so when he finally reunites with his wife Nikki, she would see that he is a changed man. He works out in the basement most of the day, goes for a run and starts’ reading some novels that Nikki loves the most. Every Friday he would have therapy sessions with Dr. Patel who Pat thought was great because he was so different from other doctors because he was open, positive and he could talk to him about any problems he had.
The father fell behind a little. Eliezer thought that maybe his son thought his father growing weaker. So his son got rid of him. This was one of many instances in Night of a son behaving cruelly toward his father. Eliezer prayed that he will never behave as Rabbi Eliahu’s son behaves.
"When the undertakers came to wheel my father's lifeless body out to the hearse, it was like they were taking my childhood with them." (PG 28). In this case Charlie is mourning over his father’s death. With no real father figure in Charlie’s life, it causes him a huge amount of grief especially when he is hurt, when he is looking for inspiration and especially when there is no income coming in. With none of these things he becomes a very unhappy and with no income, he becomes a very poor boy.
Cathedral Raymond Carver’s story “Cathedral” is a story full of moral lessons based on one man’s prejudice toward another. Set in the New York home of a nameless narrator and his wife, the story is about a blind man, Robert, who comes to visit the couple, and the conflict that each character faces in the midst of his visit. “His wife had died. So he was visiting the dead wife’s relatives in Connecticut,” the narrator states (19). The narrator’s obvious bitterness toward Robert is clearly conveyed in this statement by the lack of sensitivity in his use of the term “dead wife”.
He feels weak and knows he is going to die. This also changes the way he looks on life and his childhood. He uses a very famous saying in his diary “happiness only real when shared” It tells us that he died knowing that he had to go back in order to be happy. He writes a note just before he is about to die it says “I’ve had a happy life and thank the lord. Goodbye and may god bless
Later on into the end of the story, it is revealed that Abundio’s wife dies and he becomes depressed, and his way of solving his problems is to go to the bar and drink away his sorrows. Abundio then asks Damiana Cisneros for money so he can bury his dead wife. Damiana gets startled and screams. Abundio then stabs his father Pedro Paramo, the man and the father Juan Preciado was in search for throughout the book. Now with some minor background information on Abundio from the beginning of the novel to the end he has changed from the trustworthy good man the reader thought he was to the potential man that could have killed his father Pedro Paramo.
Explore the ways poets present their feelings about relationships Both of these poems (Remembrance and 04/01/07) are both about death and loss in relationship, in 04/01/07 the loss is a mans mother and in Remembrance the loss is about a women’s lover who has died quite a long time ago whereas in 04/01/07 the man has just received a phone call from his brother informing him of his mother’s death therefore for the brothers just finding must then mean that the death has happened very recently compared to Remembrance because your first and automatic emotions towards a death are different to the ones after it sinks in for a while. For example one of the first emotions you will feel when you know of a death of someone near to you would be something like shock or a sudden rush of sadness but as time goes on the feelings change more over to the side of grieving and just missing the person in general. Firstly Ian McMillian presents his feelings from the get go of a very strong and emotionally tight relationship with his mother, we can clearly see this because as soon as he hears the bad news from his brother it immediately affects him and also quite strongly. “And I feel the tears slap my torn face.” This shows that he was very fond of his mother hence this sudden and strong reaction to the news of her death you would expect this from her son but this would not happen in all cases in which maybe the mother and son did not get on, he would still be sad that his mother had died but he may not of necessarily cried. In Remembrance however the way this poet (Emily Brontë) presented her feelings about relationships slightly differently due partly to the story told in her poem and the way that it’s written portrays different feelings.
Holden shows symptoms of depression by giving up when life confronts him with a problem. There are two examples that express’ Holden’s feelings towards death that are exhibited in this novel. A major conflict in this story is when Holden and his roommate get into a dispute. Holden mourns while looking out the window and says “I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead” (page 48, chapter 7).