Eulogy For Me

Josie’s family from Looking For Alibrandi are remarkably close to her and shape who she feels she is and how others perceive her. Josie takes others

I chose to read and respond to Deirdre Sullivan’s essay, Always Go to the Funeral. In her writing, Sullivan spoke about her experiences with death, and how her father shaped her life by insisting that she always attend funerals. She went on to explain how this developed into a personal philosophy, about getting over small inconveniences; because doing the things you really don’t want to and probably don’t even have to, could mean the world to someone else.

Lola is twenty-year-old female who is has a bit of difficulty identifying her place in life. She describes her family as a loving doting father she feels warmly for. She sees her Mother as a cool personality but describes her as pretty, and she only acknowledges her sister in passing. She states that as children they moved around a lot and that she was a lonely child. This trend of being lonely continued as she grew up and she finds friendships hard to start and even harder to maintain. There was not a feeling of family togetherness and they did not have many gatherings out outings.

I had never given much thought into how I would die. There’s something about being young that causes us to believe we’re invincible. It’s not like dying young is uncommon, it’s just that there’s something extra despairing about a life ending before it had really begun. Over the past 18 years, I’ve never thought twice about my mortality. I mean, it wasn’t anything special to me. I knew that I would eventually die, but eventuallies aren’t always as far as you think. Here I am, only 18 years old, my cold body

Adam and Eve are alive. They were walking down the street looking scared. I asked if they need help and they said yes and they asked where there home was and where the Garden of Eden was. I asked who they were they said Adam and Eve. Then I asked form the Bible they said yes. So I answer their questions. I told them what happen after they died the world flooded and God would never flood it again. And Jesus died on the cross for us. They asked where they were I told them that they were in a city and I told them how much the world changed and explained what technology is. After I was done they seemed a lot more calm and happy.

Throughout the book, Nadia’s experiences showed how she identifies herself and who she is as a person. In chapter two, Nadia was talking about what

In reading the novel As I Lay Dying, many questions arose in my mind. However, the one that plagued me was the question that I could not pin down. All of the characters in the book have a personality and play a certain role in the tale. However, the one character who fascinated me, yet I could not explain was Cash. Is Cash a bigger player in the novel than it appears on the surface? I believe he is. Cash is the cog in the family that keeps the others from spinning away. Cash becomes, throughout the course of the novel, the patriarchal figure in the novel. He is thrust in to this position through his words, actions, and Anse's total lack of leadership. Cash becomes that patriarch. Diligence. Definition: " Close

As I Lay Dying is an archetypal novel where the journey the characters embark on is a model for others. Little Miss Sunshine, a movie rather than a novel, takes the basics of As I Lay Dying and alters them to form a more modern version with a slightly different storyline. Little Miss Sunshine successfully interprets the journey in As I Lay Dying because aspects of both the characters and their trek emulate that of the novel As I Lay Dying.

One of my heroes is Earl Schamehorn. He was my fifth grade teacher and is now one of my dearest friends. Earl is the closest thing to a father figure that I have in my life. This is why I chose him to be the person I interviewed. I not only find him interesting, but wanted to know why he decided to get involved in my life. I thought this would be a good opportunity to ask him question that I have had for a while.

Brooke, it’s not that hard, you can do it.” That is the deep and stern brotherly voice I hear when I’m trying to accomplish whatever is assigned to me. Hunter has always inspired me, even though we may seem like we hate each other all the time, he is the type of person who is dedicated to helping people. He’s the type of person that will put everything he has into the farming and livestock that he raises, because that is what he loves to do, it’s his way of life. Also, him and I both enjoy learning about agriculture, because there is still so much that we don’t know. That is where him and I are so much alike when it comes to the agricultural aspect of things, we both have our hearts filled with agriculture.

William Faulkner uses language in a unique way in his novel As I Lay Dying. Language is a form of expression to show thoughts and emotions. Faulkner uses it to convey the individual characters’ thoughts and feelings. He also uses it to draw a line between language and true expression. He shows the limitations of language and the difference between language and words.

William Faulkner’s use of interior monologue in as As I Lay Dying allows the reader to experience the story from more then one persons perspective. Through the thoughts of Darl Bundren the reader comes to understand what is going on within the family. On the other hand Anse Bundren allows the reader to get a different perspective on the family. The reader gets the perspective of an outsider through Cora Tull’s narration. The make up of these characters as well as others allows the reader to see all sides of the story.

Marcila mentions, about her life back home which she used to be very social and active in her daily life. For example, she used to play basketball and know a lot of people she grew up

The article, “Mother’s Love: Death without Weeping” by Nancy Scheper-Hughes is about mothers in the Alto do Cruzeiro and how the mothers take the death of an infant. The mothers have been thought not to morn for their babies and to not become attached. They do this because the high rate of mortality because the infants are left at home while the mother is at work. No one is there to tend for the babies and the mother cannot take the babies to work with them. No funerals are done with the death of these babies some of the babies never even got a name because the mothers are thought not to get attached to the child until they know the child will survive. This is all due to the malnourishment in the children because the mothers are in poverty

I'll tell you how I died It's a funny story, really. Should I start at the beginning? Or the end?