Analysis Of Whispers From The Grave By Katia Bachko

In the book “The Memory Keeper's Daughter” by Kim Edwards a doctor and his wife have twins and the first child is a healthy boy but then the second child that comes out is a little girl with the signs of down syndrome and he asks his Nurse to take the baby away to an institution while he tells his wife the baby girl died. Through out the entire book it is a struggle for Dr. Henry's wife Norah to have closure with the fact that her baby girl is said to be dead and she never saw her, held her, or cared for her. Kim Edwards shows through the whole book that we are only human, the themes that life is beyond our control and through the connection between suffering and joy.

When referring to writing, tone is described as the writer’s attitude toward their subject matter and audience. To analyze any literary essay, recognizing tone is vital to understanding how the writer feels about the subject he has written about but also the underlying message he is trying to convey. In the essay written by the investigative reporter Jessica Mitford entitled, “To Bid the World Farewell” Tone is very pronounced and effective in getting the main point of the essay across. The author uses many different tones, from which I have selected three to analyze. All three off them use the good principles of writing a convincing and informative essay. Her ability to sarcastically familiarize the general public with the ‘dark arts’ of the embalming industry is both suggestive and engaging. She also uses an abundance of euphemisms, hiding the disturbing truth under a string of organized connotations. Her last method of tone is to inform the reader of the embalming methods by explaining with the wordy and often misunderstood colloqialisms of an actual ‘dermasurgeon’, in which she provides multiple quotes to further convince the reader.

The Forgotten Dead takes in an account in US History that the problem of lynching did not only occurred in the US Southern states with African-Americans, but it also occurred in the US southwest with the Mexican-Americans.

On September 11th 2001, 70 years old Rita Laser lost her brother. Along with Kelly, Colleen, David, Eva, and Amber who as well lost someone special to them in the attack. Many of the victims families hid in silence after the attack, full of sadness, the government was trying to get revenge for the victims that were lost in the attack. However Rita Laser had a different outlook, she and others did not want revenge by killing other, her, Kelly, Colleen, David, Eva, and Amber were all trying to install peace into the world not start a war. In Sue Halpern’s “A Peaceful Mourning” describes that in the aftermath of the attack they have all devoted their lives into advocating peace throughout the world, in their lost one’s name.

In “A Sorrowful Woman,” written by Gail Godwin the marriage for the unnamed woman is a torment. The whole time, she suffers from grief and sadness. Meanwhile, the husband is a great man. He shows her compassion, patience, forgiveness, and understanding. He adjusts his life around her episodes to accommodate her needs. She is imprisoned in her mind with this disorder which eventually leads to her suicide. Bipolar Disorder is the psychiatric illness characterized by both manic and depressive episodes or manic ones only. In the short story “A Sorrowful Woman” mom has Bipolar Disorder and has significant difficulty associating with her husband and son. It is disconcerting how a mother cannot connect or deal with her child.

WAKE” by Amanda Hocking is a fictional-detective novel about a sixteen year old girl named Gemma, who’s obsession about one day living in the ocean becomes her worst nightmare. St. Martin’s Press of New York, New York published the 309-page novel. When placing an audience to this novel, I would say that the author intended the material to attract young adult women. However, the book was a lot more complex then I would have thought, having multiple twist in the story line. Thus, turning an innocent love story that I presumed it to be, into a mystical mystery that it proved itself to be.

Anne Sexton was known for using poetry to make sense of her perspective. In her elegiac poem, “The Truth the Dead Know”, published in 1962, she shines a light on her feelings towards the death of her parents.

‘The Grave’ by Katherine Anne Porter is a story that illustrates the initiation of a child from innocence to experience. The underlying theme behind the central idea of innocence to experience is the cycle of life and death and rebirth. This theme is illustrated in the young protagonist, Miranda, and her epiphany on the concept of the cycle of life and rebirth. The dominant tone in ‘The Grave’ is melancholic, and that tone is created through the language elements of symbolism, diction, and imagery. The story’s tone is also supported by the fiction element character.

The book, Lament For a Son, written by Nicholas Wolterstorff talks about his pain and grief after losing his 25-year-old son (Joy, 2009). His son died while on a mountain-climbing expedition. Dr. Wolterstorff has several books published during his career as a philosophical theology professor in Yale Divinity. However, he wrote Lament for a Son with a different journal style since it is a personal thing for him. The book is similar to a journal as he narrates the events that happened before and after his son’s death. The emotions expressed in the book are common among people who lose close relatives. What matters is how a person handles the issue. Kubler-Ross invented the five stages of grief; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptancethat explain the escalation of grief when stricken by bad news (Axelrod, 2004). The paper looks into the book and its relation to the five stages of grief.

This summer, I read the book The Dead by Charlie Higson is a novel about a large group of kids, left to live by themselves without guidance from their parents. In this run-down setting of London, England, people who are over the age of 16 turn into kid hunting, flesh-eating zombies. The younger kids are forced to live on their own, fighting for life against the wrath of the Adults. The message Higson showed in his book is: after people are forced to rely on themselves without experience, their lack of experience and knowledge will lead them to failure.

Knowledge is the information in which we perceive to be the truth of the world around us. However, all knowledge is susceptible to change depending of the bias of the character. Gabriel García Márquez demonstrates this issue in the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold by exploiting the understanding of knowledge through fabula and syuzhet.

In The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer, Alex is left in charge of his sisters. While Alex’s mom is at the hospital, his dad is in Puerto Rico, and his older brother, Chris, is in the army. So, it’s just him and his two younger sisters when the moon gets pushed closer to the Earth and throws everything off. People begin to panic. The electricity doesn’t work, and neither does the house phone. In the middle of the night, his uncle Jimmy comes to him needing help packing up all the food in his bodega before the people come and steal it all. Alex figures they will need it, so they all go to help his uncle. Benny, another guy helping Alex’s uncle, is carrying a gun, just in case, but Alex does not think this is that serious.

The article “Whispers From The Grave” by Katia Bachko, it talks about ghost whisperers or people who talk to ghosts, it also talks about why people are so interested in ghost stories. One example to show that people are interested in ghost stories is they are spooky. The article states “Sarah Winchester starred in terror at Adam Coons, trying to comprehend the chilling words he had just uttered” (Bachko 4). Sarah was the wife to the man who owns the company of the Winchester rifle, this shows how the ghost story is spooky because, it makes the reader spooked of what could come next. If someone didn’t know what going to happen next they would wonder and question what would happen and generally people like stories when they have to guess what

At the time the book was written it was the late 19th century, Victorian era; and at the time Victorians were fascinated by ghosts - a perfect reason to write a psychological ghost story.

Psychological factors can be seen as the reason people believe in ghost. It could be because their minds have the concept of ghost wired into them because of genetics or because of intuition and the thought of ghost. People could also have psychological tendencies, such as depression and dissociation, which make them think they have seen ghost. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, The main character hamlet is struggling with the belief in ghost. In the beginning of the play Hamlet talks to his father’s ghost. The ghost tells him to take revenge on his death. (act 1, scene 5). After this, Hamlet struggles with weather it was the ghost of his father wanting him to take revenge or a demon trying to trick him into doing evil.