Loss In The Remains Of The Day

Margaret Atwood’s collection of poems, Morning in the Burned House, could just as easily have employed morning’s homonym—mourning—in the title. The overriding theme of loss and some of its sources and consequences—aging, grief, death, depression, and anger—permeate this collection and, in particular, Section IV which is a series of elegiac poems about Atwood’s father.

“The Loss of the Creature” is an essay in which the author, Walker Percy has communicated his vision of world in an alternate manner. He makes an argument about how having prepackaged idea about something, can create a symbolic complex in individual’s mind, making them to lose the true essence behind it. He composes that understanding can be reached through the true experience. The experiences I like to share based on my essay is the time I flew on a plane, the time I when to Boston for the first time, and my first time on a cruise.

As the women walk through the house, they begin to get a feel for what Mrs. Wright’s life is like. They notice things like the limited kitchen space, the broken stove, and the broken jars of fruit and begin to realize the day-to-day struggles that Mrs. Wright endured. The entire house has a solemn, depressing atmosphere. Mrs. Hale regretfully comments that, for this reason and the fact that Mr. Wright is a difficult man to be around, she never came to visit her old friend, Mrs. Wright.

In addition to placing his wife on bed rest, John mediates that renting a colonial mansion during the summer will help her recuperate. While in awe of her temporary home, the room in which she is detained contains a yellow wallpaper that she describes as unbearable. The narrator continues to illustrate the house which contains “hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people” (Gilman 1061). Although it appears as though she is describing the home's physical attributes, the narrator may subconsciously be noting the details of her confinement. She is kept under the close eye of her husband and his sister, Jennie, under a strict schedule in which she is incapable of veering from. Although staying in a mansion, the narrator is kept in her room for the majority of

Mrs. Bates had worked in the textile mills for a long time, but the town had stirred up rumors that a “boarder” was living with them, and that’s how she made more money. Society also looked down upon her because they said she frequently got drunk and took men for

The last shots of the Civil War rang out in 1865, but the battle for its meaning remains very much alive. Following the unqualified devastation which engulfed the Southern States who had aspired to create a republic founded on slavery, the survivors were faced with the overwhelming task of justifying their actions for future generations. These efforts ultimately came to fruition in a set of concepts which historians would later define as the “Myth of the Lost Cause”. One key tenet of this remarkably persistent and pervasive mindset is that of the relationship between Southern politics and the balance of states’ versus federal rights. Realizing that they were on the wrong side of history in terms of their support of slavery, proponents

One event in a person’s life can greatly impact their way of living and instances of this in “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien and this includes experiences of loss of a loved one, forgiveness and unrequited love. It’s universal that our experiences as people affect us and shape who we are.

In this excerpt, the novel, The Remains of the Day, a butler/son had the task of demoting his father from his high ranking position as a butler to one of lower responsibility due to his physical state. In this excerpt there are many devices that help portray the father and son relationship, such as: symbolism, imagery, diction, , metaphor, point of view, and sentence length. This novel shows one that it is difficult to lose your place in society as one ages. The son goes to meet with the father. The speaker utilizes diction in the first paragraph to show the reader a setting through the use of words like: “smallness,” “starkness,” and “bareness” to show how and where the father lives.

(MIP-1) The loss of her mother affects Najmah's actions throughout the book. (SIP-A) After the death of her mother, Najmah Is taken on the journey throughout the mountains with Akhtar and Khalida. (STEWE-1) After the death of Mada Jan, Najmah is saved by Akhtar and Khalida and brought on the journey in the mountains. “The next thing I am conscious of is being lifted in the arms of Bibi Usmani’s brother Akhtar” (83). While they are on the journey Najmah starts to dress as a boy to allow her to do more things than she would be able to do as a girl “I take advantage of being dressed as a boy to wander into the makeshift bazaar that has sprung up at the end of the tent village”(148). (STEWE-2) If Mada Jan had not passed, Najmah would not have

Wife. Servant. Maid. Interchangeably, these words rolled off the tongues of the typical 1970’s man. “Wives bore the full load of housekeeping, spending an average of 55 hours a week on domestic chores.”

The comparison of “A Jury of Her Peers” illustrates many similarities with the marital role of women. Throughout the story, the men, Mr. Hale, Mr. Peters, and Mr. Henderson, have consistently expressed their superiority over the roles of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters as homemakers. As the men had noticed the dirty unkept farmhouse, they begin to criticize Mrs. Wright as a housewife. The women start to have sympathy for Mrs. Wright because they have the same difficult

Additionally, in “A Jury of Her Peers,” women and men have distinctly different gender roles and the story demonstrates the different opportunities available to both men and women in terms of the division of labor and in society. The men control this world because social rules restrict women’s ability to move about, to choose their own interests, or to exist as separate beings from their husbands. Minnie Wright and Martha Hale are continuously defined as housekeepers. The responsibilities of caring for a house, and a kitchen, are in line with women. Martha Hale still thinks of Minnie Wright as Minnie Foster, underlining the identity change each woman experiences when she marries and takes her husband’s name as her own, when she becomes distinct from her husband’s identity and her own separate personality is lost. One aspect of this social subjugation of women in the story is the loneliness that results from being stuck in their homes. Men have each other’s company, but women must remain at the house by themselves. The women don’t often get out much. “Women are used to worrying over trifles.” (572) A childless woman, like Minnie Wright, would’ve felt this loneliness even more emotionally. The subjugation of women in the story is not confining to the economic and the social. The male characters contribute to these social rules and expectations with a more personal form of oppression: by belittling

Imagine going to bed and waking from a terrible nightmare just to realize that it was your everyday life. Imagine the grief and unbearable sadness you would have to persevere through every morning when you realize that your daughter isn’t on this earth anymore. You’ve lost her completely. Her abandoned room with the bed neatly made, never to be made a mess again. The spines of the untouched books on her shelf accumulating dust as the days pass by.

The Lost Thing is a picture book and a short animated film written by Shaun Tan. The basis of the story is about a boy who finds a strange lost creature on the beach. After asking many people, including Pete who know many things, if they know where the creature belongs without avail, the boy hears about a government agency that takes care of lost things. He and the creature go there, but they hear that this place doesn’t treat lost things well. Instead they find a paradise for lost things and the creature is left behind. The overall message of the Lost Thing is that society tries to make you grow up to early, but you should grow up in your own time.

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day is about the struggles one man, Mr. Stevens, has with relationships with his father, Miss Kenton and his employer, but the struggle he focuses on the most is to be a “great butler.” He pushes himself physically to work as hard as he can, as well as mentally to determine what makes a butler great. Stevens sacrifices all normal human encounters with those around him in order to be an emotionless person. “When one encounters them, one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness” (44). Stevens, through many trials, proves himself to be a “great butler.”