The Theme Of Death In As I Lay Dying

Many people like never really contemplate the idea of death, and will actively try to avoid it at all costs but eventually everyone dies. Many people look at death as an omniscient thing but the Bible looks at in a very different way, it says “ Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me”(Psalms 23:4). In numerous stories the characters are surrounded by death but they try their best to avoid it, and act like death was not even present. Death is a very real thing that happens in the world, and it has a very strong trait of inescapableness, shown by five different works. The five works are “As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner, “Rosencrantz and

The rest of the community grabs stones, and stones the person to death. Each family in the community has a slip of paper in the box, the winner of the family then puts all their family members in the box. Then every family member goes up, draws a slip, and one family member will be the winner. In the story the winning family is the Hutchison’s, and their mom is eventually the final winner. The story says at the end, “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her”. She was pleading for her life but no one cared because this tradition was natural to them. At the beginning all the children were making piles of stones which we had no clue what it was for until the end when we found out. Everyone has to participate in the Lottery showing the theme of inescapable death because no one can get out of it. They don’t think much about it because a tradition will just naturally become ordinary for you after time but the symbol of death is surrounding them, and they seem ti never notice, because the thought is so natural to them. Even if they do not get drawn in the lottery eventually they will all die because that is