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Funerals In Faulkner's Waiting For White Horses

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Grant’s white horses finally arrive for him and he become more aware and gathers insight about how to learn and cope with tragedies in his life. Waiting for white horses is the theme by how people will become able to receive intuition about the journey of their life. There is an idea expressed towards the end of the book that describes Grant’s dad’s funeral. It is the idea of a funeral being sad that I refute with. I disagree with the books thoughts and believe that funerals should not be mournful, but in fact they should celebrate and reflect someone’s life and also celebrate the beginning of one.
I militate to the way the book, Waiting for White Horses, creates a certain persona of funerals. It makes it seem that funerals are sad and they …show more content…

I don’t like that the book describes the funeral by how they reflected on his life but they didn’t celebrate his life and they weren’t able to handle him going away to look at the good aspects of his life. We should celebrate the deceased time on earth but we should also look back on his or her life: “Should we celebrate a life at the time of death? Absolutely. But a Christian funeral also should retell the Gospel story, should affirm that we died with Christ in our baptism and will be raised with Christ” (Funerals). There can be crying and sorrow at a funeral but it should be for the right purpose. People should be crying because of the great memories they have made with you and not just that the person is gone. Instead of contemplating about how you will live without that person you should be seeing it as an opportunity for that person. You should learn from your loved ones death and grow not crumple up in a ball and cry. Recollect on the individuals past and learn from the advice you may just now notice is helpful. Instead of becoming gloomy with you thoughts embrace the fact that they are gone and know that they will always be by your side and you may not know it at the particular moment. You should be there to celebrate your loved ones death instead of creating a burden for

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