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My Mother and Father always tell me to not fear death because at some point it will come. They say I can not avoid it. I find it ironic that people fear the one thing in life that is going to happen no matter what. The fear of death is what pushes the two stories that will be compared in this essay. The irony in both deal with death and what people will do to keep from dying or to protect others from this inevitable occurrence.
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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.
In society, many individuals struggle with difficulties in their lives including a loss of a loved one, mental illness or anything that can cause a drastic change. When they don’t face their issues, it may result in sadness or complete isolation from the outer world. In the apostrophic poem “Unwritten Letter”, the poet, Dorothy Livesay is addressing an absent listener who seems to have had some struggles and is now
Parenting a teenager can be compared to rock climbing, each handhold being the most effective way to parent when faced with unexpected mood swings and outbursts. The short story "Saturday Climbing" by WD Valgardson describes a single father struggling to maintain a good relationship with his teenage daughter. Barry has good intentions when it comes to parenting but fails to bring them to life through positive actions. He ignores the fact that his daughter is growing up and continues to treat her like a child, coming off as overbearing. Barry "was acutely aware of how tenuous her life was, of how much he would suffer if he lost her" (56), leading him to become controlling and stubborn when it comes to Moira taking on any responsibility.
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In the following passage from the novel We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates laments that even though most everything in one’s surrounding is dying, not everyone has managed to find the adequate amount of maturity to accept the fact that they are not immortal, even though the idea of death is difficult to come to terms with. Oates conveys this universal idea and characterizes the narrator through the usage of a depressing tone and dismal imagery. The tone set in the passage is fairly dark and depressing. An “eleven or maybe twelve,” year old child should not be fixated on the idea that “every heart beat is past and gone.”
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