Grim: My Talk with Death

come to call him) is commonly known as the “Grim Reaper”. The Grim Reaper is considered an angel of death and is supposedly the man who takes you to the afterlife, or he is seen as ‘death personified’... yea, right. Everyone’s opinion (notice how I said opinion), is that he is some big scary monster, but you have to understand: when all you hear is negativity you become a negative person. Your opinion

respect. I’m just as excited as I am sad. You see my cat, who happens to be my best friend, died, and Mr. Reaper and Miss Freyja are about to determine her fate after death. I’ve also been waiting ages to meet Miss Freyja, I just wish I could have been under different circumstances. Grim Reaper talks about her often. I think he has a thing for her, you know. His eyes get all googly, and he non-stop smiles when her name is brought up.

influenced and affected society can inflect people's emotions. The two poems, “In memory of W.B Yeats” by Wystan Hugh Auden and Walt Whitman's “O' Captain !My Captain!”, mourn the death of a loved on. “In memory of W.B Yeats” is written about an Irish poet named William Butler, one who died peacefully surrounded by his loved ones in a hotel room. “O'Captain! My Captain!” is about Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S president, who was assassinated the morning of 14th April, a Friday in 1865. The poem by Auden was

to go to the police station of course. They asked me about what he did and when he came to kidnap me. To me it sounded like a bunch of chatter, my brain couldn’t really comprehend it all. But it didn’t get much did it? They took photos of the bruises on my neck and then questioned Loretta. Killer Kane let her go just in time for her not to choke to death, although she didn’t remember it all. Freak and I got our pictures in the paper like heroes, but I really wasn’t, he was. The Fair Gwen forgave

anyone know how did your death will affect you, your family or other people? I guess that a lot of people are questioning about what I just ask. Some people may think that I am insane when I ask them about the effect of someone’s death on their lives because death is something that we do not want talk about. I believe death is not the end of life, but there is another life after you die. “Dead like me” is a series movie about the life of the main character after her death, directed by Scott Winant

Also the Pedometer mention in the first line, “My Pedometer told me that I was twenty-five” this could be referencing the narrator's age. The pedometer seems to be an important aspect to the story and then when the narrator is behind the hedge and the pedometer breaks and stops working. This could be showing that the narrator has stopped aging and is actually in heaven as in heaven time would cease to exist. The narrator also says that “Why, even in my short life I have seen a great deal of advance-”

What is the Grim Reaper? Who is Death in The Book Thief? Both of these figures have things that make them alike and things that make them unique. Some similarities between the personas of both are that both of their roles were to collect the souls of the dead, they were both personified in many different ways and both could never be fully human. As much as the characters are similar to each other, there are quite a few things that make themselves unique. One is that Death acts as a person even

The short story of "The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe is a riveting story of betrayal and death. Within the story Poe focuses on the protagonist, Montresor, who has a great disdain for a man named Fortunat. Although we don't know why Montresor hates Fortunato, we know that Montresor wants revenge, and thus conspires a plan to murder Fortunato. In contrast to the audience, Fortunato is unaware of his impending doom, which is a beautiful display of dramatic irony. Within "The Cask Of Amontillado"

Gary Soto, a Mexican-American author, was born in 1952, Fresno, California. His parents were both Mexican-American. Soto did not expect a lot in his life, he imagined he would "’marry Mexican poor, work Mexican hours, and in the end die a Mexican death, broke and in despair’" (Lee). That’s what many people would have predicted for him. However, he instead became a writer of great worth, writing poems and short stories. “Soto is one of the most important voices in Chicano literature”(Sullivan). Soto

“O' Captain My, Captain”, by Walt Whitman, both mourns the death of a loved on. “In memory of W.B Yeats” is written about an Irish poet named Walter Butler that died in a hotel room, while “O'Captain My, Captain” is about Abraham Lincoln who was assassinated on Friday, April 14, 1895. The poem by Auden was written in 1940, a year after the poet W.B died, Whitman wrote his poem in 1865 the same year Abraham was assassinated. Both Auden's and