... Divorced, Beheaded, Survived

She was staring at his chest, blindly, not knowing what to think, not thinking at all. He lifter her chin, gently. “Look at me Faye.” She did, but his face was a blur. “Faye, we’re in this together—you and I. Don’t you see that? It’s not just your problem, it’s ours.” In “A Sorrowful Woman”, I found the husband’s nurturing ways most appealing. He completely rearranged his life to make sure that his wife was as comfortable as possible. The passage that most signifies this is found on page 41. With great care he rearranged his life. He got up hours early, did the shopping, cooked the breakfast, took the boy to nursery school. “We will manage,” he said, “until you’re better, however long that is.” He did his work, collected the boy from the school, came home and made the supper, washed the dishes, got the child to bed. He managed everything. One evening, just as she was on the verge of swallowing her draught, there was a timid knock on her door. The little boy came in wearing his pajamas. “Daddy has fallen asleep on my bed and I can’t get in. There’s not room.” In “A Sorrowful Woman” what I found most unappealing was that even though the husband clearly loved her, instead of getting her the help she clearly needed, he let her sickness overcome her.

Mortality is the constant concept of death and suffering, which is occurring in the novel by Anne Frank and the day-to-day real world. The innocent people’s life and beliefs being yanked ultimately causes bloodshed war. This theme is well-known in Anne’s time, our time, and the future world as it is universal and clarified in the diary entry Friday, October 9, 1942. Society still believes that morality is relevant to today because at the end everyone is subjected to death, and it is an involuntary process that is permanently continuous whether it’s liked or not. The entry points out that although Anne and her family are safe for now, they still feel miserable and acknowledge the Jewish people who have nowhere to go. Yet they sleep on beds,

It shows how sad and full of sorrow he was and how he was crushed by her death. It says he could not endure the loneliness anymore, this is when he starts hallucinating over her death. She was the love of his life and he could not bare to lose her

Throughout her time of hiding, Anne had a diary where she could express her thoughts and feelings about the situation. She wrote down what was happening, how she feels about what's happening, and her opinions on the people she is living with. Her opinion of her mother changed as they were there. For what I can tell before hiding, Anne loved and cared for her mother as much as anyone else in her family. As time went on, her mother was unbearable to Anne. Anne wrote, "Mother is unbearable. She insists on treating me like a baby." Anne says this because she believes that she is able to

In this reading, the narrator talks about the reaction of Mrs. Millard who had heart problems, when she notices of her husband´s death. Louise Mallard is at home with her sister Josephine, when they hear of a rain accident; then Josephine tells Louise that her husband has been killed it in the accident.

When Mrs. Mallard was informed of her husband’s death she reacted in a way that any wife was expected to act after the passing of their loved one. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms (pg.395)”. She grieved on for awhile but then realized that life goes on with or without the love of your life. However many expect one to come to terms with someone’s death some point in life, they don’t expect it to be sudden as Mrs. Mallard’s epiphany.

The irony of Mrs. Mallard’s response to the news of her husband’s death lies in the fact that her reaction did not constitute what a common reaction to death entails: extreme disbelief, prolonged heartache, and violent hysterics. When her sister Josephine breaks the news to Mrs.

In the story, the narrator, who is the author, struggles with knowing that his son died. He finds no joy and no consolation (Wolterstorff, 1987). He must fly across the ocean in order to claim his son’s body in order to bury him (Wolterstorff, 1987). No parent should bury their child is something the author heartily believes. He draws parallels of placing his son in a cradle as he places him in the coffin (Wolterstorff, 1987). This is hard for him because he only sees the darkness and cannot find God in such darkness.

The mother is an important character because she gives up her life so the kids could live through the alien invasion. The mother symbols courage. If Merrill was not at the house the bat that killed the alien to save Morgan would have not been there if he was not in the house. Merrill being in the house helped protect them from what was happening in when the alien came. The mother figured that it would be the best for her to give up her life so the kids could live a longer life even if she wanted to see them grow. The mother being dead shows that the director thinks the family needed a soldier in the family to save them. The director thought the best idea was that Merrill moved into the house so that he can come help when the aliens come and try to take over. The only reason Merrill moved in is because the mother dead. Merrill symbols the person that just cares for everyone and will do anything that has to be done to help

It is left up to (understanding/ explanation) by the reader and keeps them engaged with what is happening around them. One way I carefully studied this piece was I saw it as the wife saying that even if she is floating, her husband does not pay attention to her and just wants things that he wants before herself. This has a very lasting effect on a person and can make them think of impossible to imagine things. He gets angry at her because she is not coming with reality that their baby had died. Possibly the wife thought of it as being her fault and that is why she does not want to believe that her baby has died. Going around and not talking about the subject or thinking about it. Another way the wife showed that she was not being treated fairly by her husband was that she created an infant child in her

McCarthy displays this theme when the father remembers his wife’s death. This memory occurs to the man after his son says, “I wish I was with my mom” (McCarthy, 55). From the text, it is inferred that the wife had a strong dislike towards her son, the boy, and the world she was living in. McCarthy displays her hatred through the quote, “Sooner or later they will catch us and kill us. They will rape me. They’ll rape him. They are going to find us. They are going to rape us and kill us and eat us and you won’t face it” (McCarthy, 56). The quote uses a polysyndeton, as McCarthy repeats the idea of being killed and raped, and creates a dark setting and harsh tone as the wife tells the man of the bad things to come if they stay in this world any longer. From this quote, McCarthy states that the wife would kill herself rather than face these dangers and that she chooses death over the man and her child. McCarthy explains this through the quote, “I’ve taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot” (McCarthy, 57). McCarthy uses personification to show that this “new lover” is death and what

The mood of the story is bitter and the tone is calm. The author specially emphasizes the mood at the end of the story by describing his father’s death. His father died in the sea, and “the white-green stubble” (MacLeod, 12) of his father’s whiskers “had continue to grow in death, like the grass on graves” (Macleod, 12). The use of simile helps the author to create a bitter and sad mood that his father died miserably. And the narrator’s mother “lives alone” (MacLeod, 12) which is also sad. However, the narrator tells the story in a peaceful tone because he accepts the fact, his father’s death and starts a new life to become a teacher at a Midwestern university.

As her husband came home, it is no wonder that she had a heart attack. It was stated that she already had heart problems. It is ironic that she begins these plans in her head for a life without her husband, when she in reality is the one who dies and whose life is cut short.

Where is the sympathy for his loss? Where is the emotion for losing someone who should be considered so dear to a husband. Losing a wife is not something to forget or even act like it never happened? There are no tears shed, there are no sad passages in this novel, despite his mother’s death. The only thing significant about this woman is that she, in fact,

This story is about a wife named Louise Mallard who has heart trouble, so she must be informed carefully about her husband’s death. Her sister, Josephine, is unfortunately the one who has to break the news to newly widowed wife. One of her husband’s friends, Richard, learned about her husband’s death when he was reading the newspaper and heard about the crashing of a train that Brently was on. Louise is devastated when she learns of her husband’s death and runs upstairs to be alone. Louise sits down and ponders about life while looking out the window and hears a vendor yelling what he is selling. Still crying, she looks into the distance wondering what’s next. She is nervous for her life ahead and doesn’t know what she is going to do without her husband. She starts to think about what life is going to be like without having anyone telling her what to do, when to do it, or how to do it. She starts to feel warm inside knowing she is finally free. Louise knows she will become overcome with emotions when she is forced to see Brently’s body. She imagines the years