Stone Carvers Report Summary

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Mikhail Julius C. Navarro ENG3U Mrs. Young The Stone Carvers Report Summary Man desires to leave a mark on the world. Everyone aspires to be known and to leave a legacy behind. We want to be remembered, but so are those people who have lost their love ones in war. They wish their love ones to be remembered, to be known, and to be an example for others. Leaving our legacies is what we aspire as human beings for we do not wish to be forgotten, or to be ignored. The novel Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart and other secondary sources provides contextual evidences of why man needs to memorialize lost. The story revolves around Klara a spinster who endured the suffering of lost. Man memorializes the dead because of personal attachment, their desire to give meaning for the sacrifices of the dead and to set them as an example for generations to come. Man memorializes the dead because of personal attachment. We have seen in countless memorials that there is a sense of attachment to them. These attachments are engraved in every individual and to those linked to them. Our character Klara shows examples of these particular attachments to the dead. One such evidence is when she says “He would have only the traces of a waistcoat as a memorial. She folded to the floor, her hands near the spot where his heart might have been,” (Urquhart, 161). This quote emphasizes on peoples personal attachments to material objects that links the dead to them. The traces of a waistcoat on the floor are the material objects that link Klara to her dead lover Eamon. With this quote we find that personal mementos of the dead become our personalize memorials to them. According to Freud’s report“…people never willingly abandon a libidinal position…,” (Freud, 244). In this quote it emphasizes peoples unwillingness to let go of their dearly departed; in fact they become personally attached to them and

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