A Time To Die Analysis

The grieving that individuals experience with death is unique, but the main stages are universal across cultures (Axelrod, 2017). There are five stages of grief. Nicolas Wolterstorff’s story, Lament for a Son, addresses these five stages as he tries to find joy after the loss of his son. The meaning and significance of death in light of the Christian narrative is also addressed in the story. Having a hope of the resurrection can help comfort individuals in situations similar to Wolterstorff (Wolterstorff, 1978).

Death is one of the most avoided topics because of the finality that comes with it and the fear of the unknown after death. However, there are quite a number of authors such as AtulGawande, Elisabeth Kubler-ross and Ira Byock who have attempted to go ahead and deal with death as a topic and other connected topics.Each of these authors have delved into one of the most revered topics that is death including related topics that come with it such as the dying process itself. Ira Byock’s Dying well: Peace and possibilities at the end of life is a book that looks at the moment prior to death when an individual is terminally sick and is at the point of death. A

The theme of this novel is to look at the good you do in life and how it carries over after your death. The moral of the book is; "People can make changes in their lives whenever they really want to, even right up to the end."

“The Book Thief” presented a story filled with various themes that comprised a powerful plot line. Although there were many themes in the story, there was one that stood out to me more than others. In the process of reading the book, the theme of suffering affected me the most. The definition of the word suffer is to experience or be subjected to something bad or unpleasant. Different characters within the story are subjected to dreadful feelings and are therefore suffering. Through my analyzation, I observed the three different types of suffering that the characters experienced: guilt, feelings of emptiness, and anxiety. The characters of “The Book Thief” experience these three types of suffering in different ways.

Firstly, this book got straight into the action, which I loved. Sometimes it works when authors build up the story before the action starts trickling in, but other times, it 's nice to be plunged straight in the

Even though people have been dying since the start of life, we can never get use to the idea of leaving our loved ones behind. Therefore humans choose to disregard death and get pleasure from life, and consequently we tend to stray away from righteousness. Two works; Everyman by an unknown author, and The Pardoner’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer have been written to preach humans toward Christianity-the right way of living. These authors utilize plot to reveal the role of death in understanding life. This is achieve by drawing on the foolishness of mankind, their response to the inevitable death and the effect of death on protagonists which altogether helps the readers understand worldly treasures are temporary.

This summer, one of the books I read was Death, Be Not Proud, by John Gunther. This is a nonfiction book, about a boy named Johnny who had a brain tumor that eventually killed him, at the young age of 17. But, this book isn’t a book of grievance and sadness; though it may seem like it. This is a book about the ways that Johnny Gunther persevered through the trials and tribulations in his short life; how he became a light to all those who entered his life, and how understood that his life was a gift, whether it seemed like it or not. This book had many, many lessons that came with it for sure, about life, and accepting what you have been given. Because even if life doesn’t seem like a gift from God; it is still a gift, one that we don’t deserve but were still given.

Since the beginning of time, people have many different ways of going about the idea of death and what the afterlife may hold for them, whether they’ll be reunited with family and friends or if they’ll be reincarnated or, maybe nothing at all. This is true for writers, poets and artists. William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”, Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind” and Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” they all center their idea death, but approach it differently and conveys their points differently. One glorifies death, one says life is meaningless and the other glorifies life.

Another important thread in the book is the topic of death.  "Everybody knows they're going to die," Morrie said, "but nobody believes it.  If we did, we would do things differently." He later added "Do what the Buddhists do.  Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?'"  He hammers home the point by saying "learn how to die, and you learn how to live." (pg 62-73)

Reading this work offers readers a front row seat to the very personal, experiences, and self-reflections of Julia during her journey. As she struggles to understand

It was refreshing to go out into the world after staying in the house with Jean for so long. The gentle caress of the rain was calming. The rain whispered sweet nothings to me as I watched him drive away in his Volkswagen to her.The pure rain water mixed with my salty tears this was not alarming nor surprising, I expected such. It's hard to watch past lovers thrive while you're struggling, isn't it? Even though I am struggling, I have yet to give up. For I am still left with one thing he has yet to even fathom. Mercy and Memories. Jean and I had grown up together, he had pushed me around in the red wheelbarrow, oh how I loved that rusted old toy. When my night terrors would strike in fierce blows against my young mind, he was there to read me a story and calm me down.

Although the twins were silent, their minds weren’t interlocked. They were working hard, preparing for the arrival of one of the Caregivers. 164XY was focused on the book they’d left for him. In truth, he’d no real interest in the novel. The language was too difficult yet he continued to trudge through, studying every word. The encouragement of the Caregivers wasn’t what inspired his sparked absorption in the book, but instead the opportunities that may occur from reading.

Doe time and death relate? I think it does because it don’t matter what time it is at a point you will die. These 3 symbols: clock, black room, and colored rooms symbolized. The was black and it was on the western, and it represent time and death. Everyone was afraid of it.

While reading this, I had a specific line of a specific popular song stuck in my head that completely described my feelings toward this book. You might have heard of it. Sugar by Maroon 5? It goes like this: "*My broken pieces, You pick them up. Don't leave me hanging, hanging." My feelings were all over the place. I simultaneously cursed and blessed Leslye Walton for breaking my heart, mending it, and breaking it all over again.

He honestly starts with owning up a murder made by him. In my opinion, if the text is checked with trying to understand his background, it can be construct as admit of his own rambunctiously life. ”I killed a man. Put a gun against his head. Pulled my trigger. Now he is dead.” As a broad interpretation it explains his sickness, made with the wild life what he lived. He tells with the metaphor that he went too far, he just killed himself with a gun. He realizes that his life is dangerously approaching to its end that he has just started now. He is feeling the weight of his words. He starts to apologize for what he disbosom. He feels that this self-revelation is too factual. He says “my time has come”, like he resigned his fate. There is a big hesitation from the author. He just making paradoxes with stating first that he is desperate and second that he is absolutely resigned his fate. The big confused feeling is growing. He closes the second part with another paradoxical state. He unmask his fear from death, he do not want to die. Vice versa at the last sentence of this second part he says “I sometimes wish I’d never born at all.” He chooses literarily the death, but without living