Thoughts in regards to suicide often include empathy for the dead, and wonder as to what drove the person to end their life. All too often, people ignore a rather important consideration: the thoughts and feelings of those left behind. The loved ones are left with the remorse, despondence, and grieving, while the dead are absolved of their worldly anguish. In “The Grieving Never Ends”, Roxanne Roberts employs a variety of rhetorical tactics including metaphors, imagery, tone, and syntax to illustrate the indelible effects of suicide on the surviving loved ones. Roberts effectively uses metaphors to express the complex, abstract concepts around suicide and human emotion in general.
The mother affirms grief after conversing about her husband with tears running down her face. In the following quote: “Your father always acted like he was the roughest, strongest man on earth. And everybody took him to be like that. But if he hadn’t had me there to see his tears!” (Baldwin 42), further presents the emotional commitment she dealt with for years.
Throughout the novel, mood changes drastically with the plot. At the onset of the text, a serious, yet sad feeling emerges from the toughness of Liesel and her struggles. Beside the minor conflicts, the middle of the novel leaves the reader with a cheery mood through the playfulness of Hans and Rudy and Death’s creative narrations. At the closure of story, a sadness is emitted from the tragedy of the bombing, but hope is soon brought back once the reader learns Liesel and Max live on. As mentioned much before, mood is set though the anger and envy that Gene feels in A Separate Peace.
Although they lead different lifestyles, Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley both deal differently with death in Before the Birth of One of Her Children and To a Gentleman… the latter in a way that is more optimistic than the former. Many similarities are present throughout the writings of the two poets when it comes to the way they speak of death and how to cope with it. Both poets acknowledge their christian beliefs in saying that God holds all power when it comes to death and we, humans, are powerless in that domain. When talking about the fragile subject of death, Bradstreet says, “No ties so strong, no friends so dear and sweet,/ But with death’s parting blow is sure to meet./ The sentence past is most irrevocable,/
When Bloom was a small child, he never talked back to his parents or any of his elders. Once his parents told him to do something, he did it without hesitation. For example, his mother said, “‘about time you go off to school, isn’t it Edward?’ He then replied with ‘I guess it is,’” (11). Which shows how obedient he is towards his mother.
It emphasizes the guiltiness and shame that the narrator is feeling now as he knows deep down that he has become heartless and uncompassionate enough to have no more care for family, letting his father die without any notice. It shows how
In this scene, the man recalls the final conversation he had with his wife, the boy’s mother. She expresses her plans to commit suicide, while the man begs her to stay alive. To begin, the woman’s discussion of dreams definitively establishes a mood of despair. In the
This shows how his environment has changed him, and even when it came to his father's death, he didn't even shed a tear, he was just emotionally incapable, and he even was relieved that his father had
I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case” (Knowles 105). Because of Gene’s treachery, he suffers through the realization that his own selfish desires had crushed his best friend’s dreams and ultimately killed Gene emotionally and Phineas physically. Throughout this novel, we watch as Gene suffers the fallout of betraying his best friend. We follow Gene as he utterly destroys his own emotional life, annihilates everyone’s trust in him, and is forced to watch his best friend suffer and die because of his own perfidious actions.
When people are traumatized by an event they are pushed to experience the five stages of grief. The “Gospel”, by Philip Levine and “the boy detective loses love”, by Sam Sax both use characters that are going through one of the stages of grief. Levine and Sax both explain the thoughts and process of what a person thinks when they go through these stages with imagery. Levine uses symbolism, a sad tone, and a set setting in “Gospel” to illustrate that grieving takes you into a depth of thoughts. Sax uses anaphoras, an aggressive tone, and an ambiguous setting to convey that grieving takes you into a tunnel of anger and rage.
From the text From A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, portrays his work by setting a tone of sarcasm and humor as he describes and highlights the main themes in his narrative. By using sarcasm and humor he somewhat hides all his struggles and sufferings that life has thrown at him and instead of outright asking for empathy and compassion from his readers he entertains them by setting the tone of sarcasm and comicality throughout his memoir. In addition, Eggers’ central idea references to the misfortunes and hardships that he has had in his life such as losing both parents to cancer and not being able to finish college; yet, it is through his suffering and personal burden that has led Eggers’ succeed in sharing his memoir
An unfortunate common theme for this section of “The Warmth of Other Sons”, was loss. There were many individuals who suffered loss of a loved one in this section which concluded to some losing a part of themselves. I believe that Robert suffered the most loss. Robert’s love for Alice was very evident. It was specifically shown when he described their anniversary and the roses Robert would arrange for Alice every year.
In enduring these complex emotions, this section was the most remarkable part. One of the first apparent emotions the boy experiences with the death of his father is loneliness to make this section memorable. The boy expresses this sentiment when he stays with his father described as, “When he came back he knelt beside his father and held his cold hand and said his name over and over again,” (McCarthy 281). The definition of loneliness is, “sadness because one has no friends or company.”
For example, “grief and fear again overcame me” (52), which portrays the highly frail condition of Frankenstein. Even though he is the most visible and brightest example of misery, the whole family is suffering of the loss, in a more profound way, as Ernest describes, how in such a joyful event such as the reunion of Frankenstein and his family, “’tears instead of smiles will be your welcome’” (55). The loss of innocent William has had such an impact on the family, that now anything cheerful in life turns into
This quote shows the negative aspects of society because Roderick is so attached to Madeline that he doesn’t want to bury her. Roderick’s isolation from society has given him little interaction with humans. This foreshadowing is showing that Roderick and the narrator have buried Madeline alive. Poe’s use of this foreshadowing shows how Roderick cannot bare to part with Madeline and does not want to live with her dying, which expresses the idea that society has negative impacts on an individual. In his novel, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer uses foreshadowing to illustrate the death of Alex.
