Greggor's Short Story: Red Worms

When she was finished, she knew what she had done had been awful. She stood up, did her curtsey, and slowly walked back to her seat. She tried not to cry as she felt every eye in the room fixed upon her, and as she endured the pain from some of the negative comments some people sitting

In P.D. Cacek’s short story “The Grave”, Elizabeth, the protagonist, resents bad mothers and their cruel treatment towards their children because Elizabeth is a bad mother. In the start of the story, Elizabeth notices a forgotten grave and immediately jumps to the conclusion that the grave belongs to a bad mother. As time passes, she tries to find reasons to disprove her statement but fails. As she gets home, the reader is introduced to Elizabeth’s mother, and this relationship illustrates the tension between to two. When it’s almost time to sleep, it is revealed to the reader that as Elizabeth leaves the grave, she dug up Precious' body and only recovers the skull. There are numerous examples of what happens when a parent fail in their job

The death of a loved one can result in a trauma where the painful experience causes a psychological scar. Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones explores the different ways in which people process grief when they lose a loved one. When young Susie Salmon is killed on her way home from school, the remaining four members of her family all deal differently with their grief. After Susie’s death, her mother, Abigail Salmon, endures the adversity of losing her daughter, her family collapsing, and accepting the loss of the life she never had the opportunity to live. Abigail uses Freud’s defence mechanisms to repress wounds, fears, her guilty desires, and to resolve conflicts, which results in her alienation and

Emily Grierson for years has slept beside the physical remains of her dead lover and is sadly a victim of a father who dominated her for years, and drove away suitors.

The memoir of Jeannette Walls had several characters, important people in her life. But, there was one specific character, her dad, that she had a close relationship with. Jeannette Walls grew up in poverty and always moved around. Her family was close, but Jeannette was closest to her father over anyone else. She loved and admired her father and defended him too. Her memoir, “The Glass Castle” is very popular. She is a grown-up now and cares about her parents. She offers to help them out of poverty, but they resist. Jeannette certainly cares for both parents, but her father has a special place in her heart. Jeannette has a special relationship with her father because she admired his heroicness, she got to pick Venus as her star, and he helped her and distracted her from being scared and in pain.

Chapter 24 – 1975 – This chapter marks Deborah’s intense questions — how much her relationship with her mother molds her fears and hopes. The diary entry on pages 195-6 is powerful — from Deborah’s reference to her upbringing which mandated silence to her tortured imaginings of her mother’s pain and aloneness on the day she died. Deborah’s research shows courage and tenacity.

3. Page #______ Why is a woman brought back to her kinsmen to be buried?

“We would have known nothing of the nature and reach of her sorrow if she had come back. But she left us and broke the family and the sorrow was released and we saw its wings and saw it fly a thousand ways into the hills, and sometime I think sorrow is a predatory thing because birds scream at dawn with a marvelous terror and there is, as I said before, a deathly bitterness in the smell of ponds and ditches (198).”

In the town of salem, massachusetts, there was a group of girls heading with a dark slave named tituba into the timberland forest, it was a dark curious night for them. The town’s minister, reverend parris’s daughter, betty falls, while the girls were dancing into the woods. She falls into an unmoving, unresponsive state, so now rumors pile up into the town saying betty’s incident had something to do with witchcraft. Parris, betty’s father has sent John Hale, an expert on witchcraft to determine if his daughter was indeed bewitched or not. Parris had knew all along that the girls and tituba were in the forest. Tituba starts getting accused of being the one responsible and being involved with witchcraft.

It can be difficult for a persona to understand a different perspective. The 1914 blank verse poem, Home Burial, by Robert Frost explores the death of a child and the consequences of this disturbing event on a mother and father. The poem is set at the burgeoning of WWI in pre-war western society. At its core this text explores the gender stereotypes of its time. The mother and father embody the two differing representations of grief over their child’s death. After a brief introduction, the text consists of mostly dialogue which gives the audience an insight into the emotional rift between two personas and their different experiences in dealing with the emotional consequences of death. The husband questions the emotional response of his wife using a demanding tone, desperate to try and understand the reasons for her longing actions “What is it you see From up there always- for

In her essay “Nine Days of Ruth,” Angela Morales eloquently yet humorously narrates the final nine days of her grandmother’s life. Initially, Morales reminisces about the day her grandmother Ruth passed away projecting a gothic, murky and vacant atmosphere. However, Morales shifts from a leaden tone to a more gratifying voice revealing her grandmother’s life trajectory: betrayal, death, and struggles. The author ends with a eulogy expressing to her grandmother that while other will bury with a different image or perspective in mind, she will bury her as a luminary. Make-believe, fantasy, and imagination play an important role in the essay because it conveys the beauty of death.

That night dinner was a quiet affair. The girl (Autumn?) sat dejectedly across the table from him, picking at her food. The severe reprimand she had been dealt earlier must be still bothering her. She should be used to it by now. Quickly shoveling down his food, Eli excused himself from the table early. After he had traveled upstairs to prepare for bed, he heard the echoing shouts of his parents from downstairs.

“My eyes filled with tears, I thought of my brother, and i thought of my stepfather, who was probably scrubing a piece of furniture with a wad of steel wool, is knuckles a nest of wiry fibers. I thought of Mom with a telephone to her ear, and my dead father on his rack of blackness, lighting up the earth with his glow of bones.”(Page 101)

The year is 1692. The village is t. In an upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, a young girl lays in a deep slumber. Doctors can not do anything for her, for no natural cause can be found. The village looks to otherworldly causes and in a moment of weakness, a woman confesses to witchcraft. The village erupts in a mass hysteria that leaves nineteen people dead.

The tone of this story is one of fear, regret, and guilt. The story first leaves the reader with impression that it may be a recount of the life of a daughter who was lost due to neglect. Soon it is evident