In the book, “Out of the dust”, the characters suffer through a lot of loss and hardship, but in the end, they overcome these hardships. Billie Jo becomes not able to play piano because of her burnt hands, Billie Jo’s mom dies along with her boy in the process, and her father acts like he doesn’t love her anymore. But, she plays piano in the end. She finds that just because her mom dies, she still has ma in her heart.
To begin, Billie Jo’s father lost his wife and Billie Jo lost her mother. He loses her from a fire that started from a bottle of kerosene by the stove when she mistaken it for water. It set fire and she ran out the door to get her husband, but Billie
The moods that happen in the book and film are grief, anger and blame. Grief is a word that describes a person who is in deep sorrow also known as in lot of pain. This is shown when the accident happens and the families lose their children. The families are in pain about losing someone so close to them. Billy also shows grief when he talks about losing his wife.
The book revolves around Lisa and her family's grieving process and how they cope with Jimmy's loss. Dealing with the loss of a loved one can be a challenging experience, and also dealing with it while sticking to your roots and traditions in modern society can be difficult. When Lisa first learns about Jimmy's disappearance, she experiences a lot of emotions, which include shock, disbelief, and confusion. She could not stop thinking about their childhood, the moments they shared, and the love and laughter that filled their home. Lisamarie’s grief affected her everyday life and really took a beating on her well-being and her identity: “Everything blurred and slid together, and I shook and felt like I was going to throw up” (122).
I also agree with the opinion that suffering might never end, like the novel indicates through imagery at the very end. The author manages to combine happy moments with sad ones even though the sad ones takes the larger share. In addition, he accomplished his aim of having an audience that is glued to the book all along sine it is both engaging and informative. The author has a perception that the world is composed of more bad things than the good ones. This novel will be important to me as I explore the themes of post-apocalyptic fears and human struggles.
This helps her realize all of the caring and positive things her father has done for her, like attending night school to support the family, and risking his own life to find her during a dust storm. Billie Jo realizes that “[her] father stayed rooted, even with [her] tests and [her] temper, even with the double sorrow of his grief and [her] own, he had kept a home until [she] broke it” (269). Her encounter with this man changes Billie Jo’s perspective on her father, and causes her to head back home. When she arrives, “[her] father is waiting at the station and [she calls] him Daddy for the first time since Ma died” (273). As they walk home together, Billie Jo is “forgiving him step by step, for the pail of kerosene ...
Billie Jo is haunted by her mother. She is haunted by how much is lost because of her mother’s death. Part of mourning is sweet remembering with a pang of sadness on the end because the person knows that it can never be again. Billie Jo is experiencing that. She and her father are trying to move on, but they also need to remember and get used to that pang of sadness.
In his novel The Grapes of Wrath, author John Steinbeck suggests that similarly to how a seed needs to be buried in order to grow, something or someone has to come to an end for something better to begin. Ends come in the form of death and destruction in the novel that pave the way f Steinbeck shows the reader how the past has to be buried for something better to emerge or for a future to be possible. The Joads house had to be destroyed for them to realize that there is nothing left for them in Oklahoma. An end of an era has arrived and in order for the Joads to begin a new one they have to put an end to the memories of the past. Ma Joad burns her box of Oklahoma memories that included letters, photographs, and clippings, decimating it to dust.
Miss Maudie is almost unaffected by all of the tragedy that has just occurred and she is already making plans to rebuild her life. She doesn’t waste any time on grieving. This is my favorite part of the book because it proves how strong-willed Miss Maudie is. When faced with extreme loss, she only sees the good. It really proves how strong of a person and how adaptable she
Throughout the book, some of the characters suffer events resulting in grief and loss. Each character who must deal with these things eventually overcome their struggles by using the relationship and support of others, the value of trust in the future, hard work, and time. They form relationships and come together in unity to build each other up and get over their hardships. Throughout this essay, I will explain how Billy Joe overcomes the loss of her best friend, mother, and her beloved piano playing. Billy Joe uses all of the qualities above to overcome these faults.
Many people believe that the story should have one narrator, which will provide readers with only one perspective on the text. However, actually it is a wrong point of view. Many novels and short stories have more than one retheror. The famous author Sue William Silverman writes on this topic in her article, which describes different diverse forms of nonfiction, saying that every memoir should have “at least two "voices" to tell the story, to explore the depth of events” (4). Two voice perspective helps the author to show every aspect of the story with more emotion and detail.
It sets up a reader for thier future and what is to come: grief. The story shows how our relationships to others vary from person to person. People are caring and selfish, sympathetic and indifferent, hopeful and completely discouraged. Like any story, the readers gain their own lessons, but still explore the universal themes of loneliness, companionship, love, loss, and death. It shows us that grief can overtake us, as well as looking for an unapproachable
This week was spent focusing on grief, sadness, and reflection. Elizabeth Bishop’s The Fish provided intense imagery, and very descriptive words to allow the reader to vividly recreate the picture of the setting int their head. The Fish exhibited many examples of literal and figurative means within it. The first time I read it, I didn’t quite understand it.
These characters help Ava get back on her feet and help her realise that there is still more to life and all that they want for Ava is for her to be happy. A couple sentences from the novel that give a powerful description are ”All I can think about is how my boyfriend will soon be underground. He’ll be lying there alone in the dirt.” These couple of sentences are descriptive because it describes where Jackson's body will be shortly when they lower his casket into the dirt and bury him.
LOSS, GRIEF AND HEALING As human beings, we suffer losses of many kinds and sizes in our life time. While some of these losses are small and do not hurt much, some are big and hurt deeply. Those that are accompanied by pains that are difficult to bear include the loss of a loved one through death or divorce, cheating or unfaithfulness in a trusted relationship or loss of good health when a diagnosis of a terminal illness is made. In all these instances of loss, pain and grief are experienced and an emotional wound is created which needs healing.
