An Analysis Of ' The Five Stages Of Grief ' By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Imagine that you were a teenage boy living a normal life, when all of a sudden your life took a huge twist and your beloved younger brother Jeffrey was diagnosed with leukemia (cancer). Because of this, Steven Alper experienced the five stages of grief from/toward his younger brother Jeffrey in the book Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie. The fives stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. In the beginning of the book Steven went through a denial stage where he kept denying that Jeffy has cancer. Then he had a lot of angry mood swings, where someone would say something and he would yell and get mad at that person. Later in the book he went into a bargaining stage, meaning he would say something like “Take me. Don’t take Jeffrey. Please, Lord. Take me.” In the middle of the book, closer to the end he had a lot of depression, like when he didn't do his homework because he kept saying “what's the point of doing this.” Near the end of the book, Steven accepted that his brother had cancer, and that was how it was going to be because he couldn't change that.

The 7 stages of grieving is an Indigenous Australian collective play co-written by Wesley Enoch and performed by Deborah Mailman. The play has the opportunity to inform, celebrate and transform Aboriginal themes and issues to aboriginal and non-aboriginal audiences a-like. It touches on themes and issues from the past, present and future in a comedic way. I have decided to use the scene “Nana’s story” as inspiration for my visual representation. In this scene, the theme of loss of culture is explored in regards to the policy of assimilation and the stolen generation.

As Keanu Reeves once said, “Grief changes shapes, but it never ends” (“Tragic”). When it comes to grief there are usually five shapes or stages that people go through: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and, finally, acceptance. The book A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness, is about a young boy who is struggling with school, bullies, friends, and family when his mother develops a terminal illness. He is visited by the monster, a massive yew tree, who comes alive to teach Conor the ways of the world. He also teaches Conor the truth in order to move past his mother’s sickness. Ness shows how people in both literature and real life tend to go through five stages of grief while dealing with a loved one who has a terminal illness because of the overwhelming lamentation it inflicts.

Wolterstorff, N. (1987). Lament of a Son. In Lament for a son. Michigan, 49505, Grand Rapids: Wm. B Eearmans Publishing 2140 Oak Industrial Drive, N.E.

The most common effect of death in a family is known as grief. When we understand it better, it makes the process a little less daunting. We have to realize as humans, we are not alone. Everyone has lost someone they loved and it's a natural thing to deal with. There is no normal way of dealing with death. It doesn't have patterns or a set way of dealing with it.

Certain events and choices in life have a huge impact on the future. In A Walk to Remember, directed by Adam Shankman, the viewer is taken on a trip with Jamie Sullivan and Landon Carter. Jamie is a sheltered pastor’s daughter, while Landon is popular at their school; a very unlikely couple. They go to the same high school, but the way the two meet is a bit unusual. Landon had gotten involved with a bad crowd, who peer pressured one of their classmates to jump off a bridge. He ends up in the hospital with injuries. Since Landon was involved in the accident he was made to volunteer in their school play and help tutor younger children. That’s where he gets to know Jamie. Landon has the lead in the play, and spends a lot of time with Jamie going over lines. He ends up falling in love with her, and defending her against bullies at their school. Later she reveals to him that she is sick with leukemia, and has no chance of recovering.

In this essay I will discuss what grief is and the kind of grief a client could experience. We will move onto attachment theory and its link as to why we grieve. I will then look at what tools are available for counsellors to support their clients through a normal or abnormal grieving process.

The stages of mourning and grief are universal and are experienced by people from all walks of life. Mourning occurs in response to an individual’s own terminal illness or to the death of a valued being, human or animal. There are five stages of normal grief that were first proposed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book “On Death and Dying.”

Death, we all hate it. Yet we try to avoid it, but it’s a natural part of life. Death is sneaky, it comes unexpected, but it is expected. We all go through a grieving process but some do not accept the fact of their loved ones dying. Some people even hallucinate their loved ones still being with them. In books like “bag of bones” death was unavoidable just like reality. People always avoid death as if it does not exist. The people that try to ignore death are the ones that have the hardest times dealing with the grieving process. The five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

This stage is when the patient first hears about his/her illness, and this is where the patient is saying "no, not me" and "it can't be me". During this time they will also ask a numerous amount that "is the results wrong", or "could you check my results again please".

At the start of the book, I was struck by the idea that God would allow one of his finest worshipers to go through tragedy and grief so that God can prove a bet with Satan. God is supposed to bring happiness and greatness to all of his followers, yet he uses Job as a pawn. I believe that God allows suffering to occur to teach his friends and the readers a lesson. Suffering will happen to good people. Regardless of how good in nature we all are, horrific things will happen. The book uses this to appeal to skeptics. People who believe that there is no God because suffering occurs. God describes in chapters 38 and 39 that he is omnipotent and omniscient. He also, is the only force that can safeguard humans from the Leviathan. This shows that God

Reading about the experiences leaves me feeling more empathic towards my clients with depression. Though I do speak about depression and suicide in my Coping with Loss group, which I facilitate, reading this book leaves me with a greater understanding of what my clients may be going through (especially when it is difficult for them to express themselves).

In this essay I will outline the main theoretical models relating to loss and grief.

The words echo in my head ‘in sickness and in health’ and I flash back to the vivid memory of the day Jim came home from the doctor’s office and said they found a mass; this was after we had been living together for 5 years. He had liver cancer and needed to start radiation and chemotherapy immediately, so he left his job and we went through his first round of chemo. It is hard for me to think about the clear hanging bags that pumped, the most important person in my life full of chemicals that I could not even pronounce. I drove him to every single chemo appointment, held his head while he puked, when he was too weak to sit up. I prayed every single day to a God I didn’t even believe in, because it killed me to watch the man I love die slowly before my eyes.

On a summer afternoon in 2013, I lay in my bed staring up at the ceiling contemplating how to cut my losses while my life spiraled out of control. I felt as though there was an anchor attached to my soul pulling me deeper into an abyss of unfathomable despair. My thoughts drifted to an existence of solitude, and for a brief moment, relief washed over me. I had already become disconnected from most of my family and friends–an unforeseen casualty of a protracted hardship. In a period of uncertainty, I considered whether or not I should also cut ties with my husband, Tom, since I desired to live out the rest of my days without the expectations of another. Furthermore, Tom never asked to be my caregiver, so letting him go seemed noble to me. Why should we both have to suffer when he could escape this nightmare?