Diction Of Syntax In If I Were You By Arundhati Roy

This notion is particularly evident in the realisation of the persona “years cannot move nor deaths disorienting scale distort those lamp lit presences” reiterating the immortality of memory as a constant, surpassing the boundaries of time and places we go.

Life, the existence of an individual human being. All humans have the desire to “exist” as one would say, to become influential in this world. But is it not possible to exist once one is gone? Famous film director Alfred Hitchcock argues that characters are more important dead than alive. In this life, in order to become important or even cared about, one must die. Death has become the key to success because everyone misses those who are gone. Literary work such as Macbeth, A Lesson Before Dying, Are You Worth More Dead Than Alive? and, How the King of Pop Made 1.5 Million, have proven that not only characters but humans hold more value once they are dead.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The individual will have given a meaning to their life and will be able to share their experiences, offering a kind of mentorship to younger generations.

The third section of the excerpt focuses on the mother and her reaction to her children’s “furious tenacity.” Her head begins to ache as the children argue over what happened on the cliff. She blames their behavior on “the perilous world” and the “intransigence” of the children. The rivalry between the children has overwhelmed her; furthermore, she is embarrassed by their behavior. She loves her children, but their constant bickering has exhausted

Many authors use storytelling as a vehicle to convey the immortality of past selves and those who have passed to not only in their piece of literature but in their life as an author. In Tim O’Brien’s work of fiction The Things They Carried, through his final chapter “The Lives of the Dead,” O 'Brien conveys that writing is a matter of survival since, the powers of storytelling can ensure the immortality of all those who were significant in his life. Through their immortality, O’Brien has the ability to save himself with a simple story. Through snippets of main plot event of other chapters, O’Brien speaks to the fact the dead have not actually left; they are gone physically, but not spiritually or emotionally. They live on in memories as Linda lives on in the memories of O’Brien and as many of his war buddies live on through his stories. He can revive them and bring them back to the world through his writings and through these emotions or events he experienced with them and with their deaths can make them immortal. Through the reminiscent stories of Linda and O’Brien’s war companions and himself, O’Brien conveys that storytelling allows people to reanimate others who have died and past selves to create an immortality of humans.

In the speech, “Fall Forward” By Denzel Washington, one of the things that really got to me was when he talked about deathbeds. He said, “ Imagine your on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are ghosts. Representing your unfulfilled potential.” Saying that maybe people you know, or maybe people that were in your family. And when you are in your deathbed, you don't want to have to think about the things you didn't do correctly. The people that are know there thinking “Wow you really didn't do it, you didn't fulfill your complet potential.” Or when there's people that relied on you, and you weren't always there for them, and know. Now there waiting, waiting for you at your deathbed. You knowing that you didn't reach the full potential that you wanted to get, you didn't get to the point and time. You didn't reach the best. If you haven't failed, then you really haven't tried. And give up know, your going to have more to do later in the future and it's going to just be a lot of more work for you, your hurting yourself not anyone else. And knowing this, this would be very good advice from an elder, an it is definitely good advice from an elder. He was a good person to get advice from.

I believe this passage is important as Georgia warns Aminata that her child might be stolen from her by Robinson Applebee. Aminata doesn’t believe it will happen, because of the other mothers who still have their babies. But Aminata was openly rebellious towards Applebee, ‘balk-talking’ when told not to. (253)

Joan Chittister’s The Gift of Years, Growing Older Gracefully in the chapter titled Legacy, starts off by saying a quote from Roman Stoic Philosopher Seneca the Younger “nothing is more dishonorable than the old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of having lived long, other than years” what the author is try to convey here is that every life should serve a purpose and should leave a mark on if not history then within the generations within his or hers families. One of the sorrowful things that could every happen in humanity is the death of an unknown person, because that unknown death has a story left behind with no one to tell it. Many societies, especially American, feel that a legacy is what can be physically left behind in the form of money, property, and in a lot of cases status. I can honestly relate to this, because I am guilty of this same mind set. I come from a background of very little.

Hope is essentially saying “legacies deserve it more because they understand it more, and they understand it more because they are legacies.

Throughout human history, people often tend to contemplate what their purpose in life is. While some people live life oblivious, others feel as if they need to make a difference in society during their lifetime. Those who want to make a difference want to leave a legacy in which they will be remembered throughout history. Only a few have been able to leave a legacy, which last for more than hundreds of years such as Plato or William Shakespeare. As the world spins and times passes by, everything that once had lived slowly turns into dust. Basically the only thing that remains are the memories and the impact you had towards others. In the novel of The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe, Nikki who is the main character in the novel, feels that

The speaker also talks of Nell, his ex-wife. Though there were things that annoyed him about her, he still speaks fondly of her. For instance, he remarks, "That's why Nell was good to have ‘round. She could be a pain in the ass, you know, like making me hang those stupid bells, but mostly she knew what to do." This allows the reader to see that the loss of his family has had a deep impact on him. He misses his wife and son and speaks of how families should be together, though his never will be again. This is what provokes him to do what he did next.

The author was saying that old age shouldn’t stop you from pursuing things in life, that you should fight against death. In your final days you should enjoy life and “burn and rave”, because before you know it, your life could be gone.

These short phrases are scattered about the poem, with the most notable uses found in the second stanza in lines six through nine. Here, the parenthesis are used to create an image of the situation, where the group is shouting at each other, communicating to each other while walking to the old place. This adds a sense of levity to the poem and gives the reader a sense of comradery between the men. This helps offset the darker undertones that the acronym suggests. This levity is strengthened in the third stanza, on lines thirteen and fourteen, with the words “It’s heaven!”

There are many ways that I want to be remembered and many lives that I hope to affect in my life. There are also many goals I have that I hope I accomplish during my lifetime. Many people leave a legacy, which is a way that someone is remembered.