But I missed school to watch my best friend be laid to rest. Shortly before they laid him in his grave a man gave a message. His last line was, “Let your spirit sore through the air” as they let out three white doves. I started balling my eyes out. He has been gone now for five and a half years.
Oh sure! I get you.” This makes the reader know that candy really loved his dog and everyone knew it so they feel bad for him. Steinbeck describes candy speaking “more confidently “ to George which insinuates that he is usually quite shy and closed off from the other men as they don’t value his opinions due to his age. This indicates to the readers that candy has probably felt degraded in the past due to experiences with other men. I think Steinbeck perhaps wanted the readers to feel some sympathy towards him, as they can tell he is a good natured person.
She talked about what a smart and out spoken man her father was, and a person that her family had always looked up to, she saw the life and the goodness that her father had in him starting to fade away at the end. It got to a point where he could not read or even do something that he likes doing and that was cross word puzzles. Susan went threw a lot of medical treatment that with her father that I would have done to. That is one out of a million people that stuck by her father the way she did. In 2002 her father was diagnosed with metastic head and neck cancer.
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
For Matt and Ruth, this couple have to cope with the loss of their youngest son Frank, who was gunned down in cold blood by Richard Strout, the husband of Frank’s girlfriend Mary Ann. For Matt and Ruth, they suffered on multiple levels. They had to cope and heal from the loss of their beloved son, who had a beautiful future ahead of him, but also experience other injustices such as seeing Richard Strout walking around town, flaunting his freedom, while their son was dead. Matt, in a conversation with his close friend Willis Trottier, remarked, “Every day since he got out. (he was asked how often he thought about Strout since the murder) I didn’t think about bail.
She thought of someone, her father. Michael is a barrister so Josie decides to call him to get her out of the mess. He succeeds and they decide from there to start getting to know one another. Later on when Josie arrives at school she is met by the school captain, Ivy Lloyd, who is crying. “John Barton killed himself.” Josie breaks down completely and feels awful just as her HSC exams are starting for the year.
From the start he was hesitant, but agreed with a ‘sure’. Simon had decided many years ago that PNG was a place he ‘never wanted to visit’. His grandfather had died at 33 in a plane crash, his body was never found. In 1976, Simon was 14, his father moved to PNG after splitting with his mother. A week before Simon was due to visit, he found out over the phone that his father had died of a heart attack after drinking a
Superficially, all seems well because his family lives a comfortable existence. Emotionally, however, his family has missed his emotional support for years. His wife, Helen, gave up “trying to compete with his work years ago.” All of his children grew up in a so-called normal family with a father and mother. At his funeral, though, they do not have enough memories about him to say a proper eulogy. Phil himself was “overweight” and unhealthy, obsessed with work and negligent with his personal life.
There, in front of a dingy motel, Father waited. His face seemed to express relief.my heart sank. After years of my useless prayers, I knew it had finally happened-my parents were separated. I closed my fists so tightly I thought my fingers would tear into the palms of my hands.” (150-151) At the end of the plot David feels helpless he had lost faith that any good was going to come to him. The only person he had trusted and thought that he was going to get him out of his misery was
Sally loves her husband, Ed, because he is beautiful, blond and dumb. She is in fact dominating, manipulating, and her relationship to her husband seems to be that of a mother to an