Shahad Al-Khawaji
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Mrs. Nejwa Al-Ghoraibi
Research Methods –Lane 331
8, April, 2012
The Effects Of Grief in For One More Day
This paper studied the character Charles (Chick) Benetto in For One More Day by Mitch Albom and the effects of losing a loved one on people as Mr. Benetto lost his mother. The author showed through this character the importance of the relationship with our families and the mother’s love. This research holds more than one theme in the novel such as grief, love, perfection, regrets and forgiveness. In life, everyone have to face this kind of situation, but it has a different influence on each person.
As humans we all need the love of mother 's. It could never be compared to any kind of other
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The novel has a little bit of imagination when Mr. Benetto sees the ghost of his mother after she died as how it mentioned in the book. The researcher looked at it from another perspective that it is something realistic and not imaginary, sometimes people go through a lot in their lives and that put them in hard times that could cause a mental illness or high depression that cause hallucinations, “in grief there is no 'normal '” (Smith 9). Losing someone is very hard specially one of the family members, no matter how good or bad the relationship is it will always be the hardest kind of loss.
People grow up, change and leave but the need of the parents will never change, everyone has a child inside himself and need someone to go back to in the hard times, someone you love and someone you trust. No one in this world wants the best for you as much as the mother because no one carries the much of love for you as she does. Mr. Benetto didn 't know how much he needed his mother until she was gone, that was the worst period of his life and he needed her more than any time before. The researcher thinks because of the strong love that she had for her sun and the strong relationship between them she stood by him, her spirit was surrounding him and helped him to get through his distress and depression. “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to
I consider my mother to be the most important person in my life because she has always been the rock in my family. She raised my two sisters and me to be independent, educated, and well-rounded individuals with little to no help from her family or my father. My mother learned at a young age that if you want something you must get up and find a way to achieve it for yourself. She worked two jobs to pay her way through college and always told my sisters and me that college was not an option, so she made sure we all
If I stay, which is an outstanding novel written by Gayle Forman, was published in 2009 and is an emotionally gripping story. The most interesting part of the novel starts with Mia’s life after the accident. The readers also learn about her life before the tragedy with the help of plentiful flashbacks. She recalls her colorful and vibrant family members so vividly that they could easily step off the page and break the hearts of the readers. Furthermore, her remembrances also highlight her passion for music and romance with her boyfriend. Moreover, the readers will find the entire novel very interesting and inspiring and will also find the climax of the novel very satisfying. The story revolves around seventeen year old Mia, who finds herself dealing with the aftermath of a terrible car accident which killed her entire family. During the coma, Mia goes through an out-of-the-body experience and observes all her friends and family that gather at the hospital. The memory of Mia flashes before her and she debates about whether or not she should wake up and face the grief of losing her family or, if she should die. Before summarizing the story, it is pertinent that the main characters of the story should be discussed briefly.
Growing up my mom was the only parent in my household, so naturally we were a very close family. My mom took care of all of us. She always made sure my siblings and I had everything we needed in order to be successful. She cooked, clean, worked, etc., she really was a super mom. Whenever I had a problem with something or needed to talk to someone she was always there for me. My mom gave
the reader to interpret what may have happened to the mother, and how it affects the relationship
Not only that but her questioning of gender role was a concern for her. After her parents were separated, her father’s expectations of her were no longer there and did not speak to one another. After a while, blaming one-self after a separation of the parents is always expected from young children and so Roberta’s feeling that the separation of her mother and father was due to her misbehavior at home allowed her to be not happy. The separation of her parents did not only cause Roberta to feel not happy but also her thinking was shaped in ways that blamed all men to be the exact same way and that on one could be the same. This can be related to what each child feels and thinks if that were to happen to their own family, and unfortunately in our current society there are people that still the same way as Roberta’s father and
No matter what actions or words a mother chooses, to a child his or her mother is on the highest pedestal. A mother is very important to a child because of the nourishing and love the child receives from his or her
Mothers are pictured as the care giver of the families and the ones who love their children unconditionally no matter the situation. They’ll do anything to support their family and raise their children right. In “The Queen of Mold” by Ruth Reichl, the mother in the story is pictured as the one who makes a meal almost out of nothing, just to provide and have something on the table for her family. Even though the food she cooks is moldy, this is how she demonstrates her motherly love.. In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, the mother is portrayed at first as an over excited mother waiting for her over achieving daughter Dee. As the story progresses the excitement for the daughter starts to go away and her motherly love towards Dee becomes complicated because Dee thinks she is greater and much smarter than the rest. Both of the stories depict complex motherhood, in Reichl story her mother’s love becomes complicated when she cooks food for the guest and her daughter tries to save the guest from being killed, while by the end of Walker story she only has love for the one daughter that has always been by her side and that’s Maggie.
do my own mother, and I believe she loves us just as if we were her own
In the novel “Out Of The Dust”, Billy Jo’s perception changed after Ma died because she was no longer in a comfortable environment. Her dad was very quiet and sad after the passing, and so was Billy Jo,. This made things very uncomfortable, sad, and empty in their household environment. Before Maa died, things were more hopeful, loving, cheerful, and had a comfortable, liveable, safe environment. Things changed greatly because Ma took huge chunks of their hearts with her, and left them to be hollow, which caused it to be difficult to love each other the same. So, billy Jo’s perception was greatly affected by her tragic mother’s passing.
Mother-daughter relationships are very important in life. Some say they are absolutely essential. Mothers nurture, encourage, and provide the help needed when it feels like the world is ending. Their presence makes everything better no matter what. Without a mother's love, without a mother's hug, daughters would all feel a little lost. After all, what are daughters without their mothers? Here are the greatest mother-daughter relationships seen on television (some make me totally jealous).
This piece is filled to the brim with emotion, causing even the most cold hearted of readers to feel the sorrow and suffering of the writer, Olaudah Equiano. Throughout the piece, he tells of horrific tales and focuses on the loss of his sister saying “the small relief which her presence gave me from pain was gone,..” The author’s emotion towards this loss is emphasized throughout the piece, and transmits to the reader who can feel the sorrow expressed in every word. The author’s opinion on his own life is also quite emotional. His pity towards the circumstances that make up his existence also evoke compassion towards the author’s life story. The reader is moved towards pity and sorrow as Equiano questions his own fate saying “as if fortune wished to give me this taste of joy, only to render the reverse more poignant.”
A mother can impact lives greatly. Could you imagine growing up without a mother? You can either be very lucky with a mother that cares for you or be deprived of that sense of love from a mother figure. It is inhumane to destroy any kind of maternal bond because mothers are not people to depend on, but are people to make depending not required.
Everyone needs someone in their life who is like a mother to them, a person who helps them along the journey of life. No matter your age, you need someone like this to guide you through the rough patches in your life. Mothers impact lives greatly, therefore affecting what a person experiences in their lifetime. In Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”, Ruth Younger has a mother-like relationship with most of the family, which impacts the plot and theme of the story.
I trust she is well in America?’ He always asks about our daughter. He often drove my wife and me to visit her at the College of Medicine in Enugu. I remember that when Ebere died, he came with his relatives for mgbalu and gave a touching, if rather long, speech about how well Ebere had treated him when he was our driver, how she gave him our daughter’s old clothes for his children” (Adichie
Gerard is the main character of the short story “Save as many as you ruin”. He has a daughter, Lucy, whose mother, Issy, died tragically many years prior to when the story takes place. Gerard has made many mistakes in his life, and in the story we hear about how he recovers from one of the biggest ones, when he once again meets the love of his life after many years of separation. The themes and topics discussed in the text include making mistakes, losing and finding love, coincidences and being a spectator in life.