Meaning Of Death: A Narrative Fiction

They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness. Greased they 'd say. Offed, lit up, zapped while zipping. It wasn 't cruelty, just stage presence. They were actors. When someone died, it wasn 't quite dying, because in a curious way, it seemed scripted, and because they had their lines mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy, and because they called it by other names, as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself. "

On 09/12/2016, I Deputy Daniel Pruitt was dispatched to 52455 West Highway 16 for an unattended death compliant. I arrived on scene st 6:45pm and meet with Creek County EMS unit 40.

I’m bound into a vicious cycle of obscurity so deep that the choice was luminous. I seem less than myself, but at the same time, I can feel relaxed- even self-righteous, believing that I, a mere mortal, am immanent within this existing plane… And, I ask, Why must we face reality and not become lost in the gray abyss of our mind when it returns to the dawn of darkness from whence it came? Truly, it is comforting there…

“He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something

no longer, "…but at this moment – from whence came the spirit I don't know – I resolved

The most important aspect of the Latin American culture has everything to do with honor. Women have the biggest responsibility when it comes to honor. Losing your honor might undoubtedly portray as the worst deed in this culture. In a Chronicle of a Death Foretold the author Gabriel Marquez demonstrates the horrifying actions taken when losing one’s honor. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the events that occurred in the novel and compare them to the same the culture and also the outcomes of going against your religion in different cultures.

He must have seen something in my appraisal of him, as when my eyes met his again, I saw understanding in them. “Where did you come in from?”

Traditionally, women have been known as the less dominant sex. They have been stereotyped as being only housewives and bearers of the children. Many interesting characters in literature are conceived from the tension women have faced with men. This tension is derived from men; society, in general; and within a woman herself. Kate Chopin‘s short story, “The Story of an Hour”, focus on a woman’s dilemma near the turn of the 19th century. Contradicting the “normal” or sad assumption of death, “The Story of an Hour” illustrates the significance of death representing freedom. The Story narrates about an hour of Louise Mallard’s life, as she tries to understand, and deal with her feelings of her husbands death.

The notion of death puts many things in perspective. Or even better, death has too much power to modify any perspective.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Marquez tells the story of the murder of a young man called Santiago Nasar. The novel is narrated by a man who returns to his hometown twenty seven years after the murder and attempts to reconstruct the events of the crime through the memories of other townspeople. Contrary to its title, Chronicle of a Death Foretold is technically not a chronicle. Instead, it is an amalgamation of the information the narrator compiles from the townspeople he interviews. Upon reading the text, the reader will find that the narrator is largely unreliable due to his personal relationships and biases which prevent him from relating the story with complete impartiality.

A universal fascination with death is not something newly discovered; in fact there is scarcely any other matter upon which our thoughts and feelings have changed so little over time . As humans we have the unique ability to be aware of our own mortality. This awareness means a preoccupation with death is never far from our minds, it only takes the opening of a newspaper to reveal how obsessed with death we are. However, whilst being an obsession, it is also simultaneously something that culture dictates as a forbidden subject. This conflict society creates about our feelings towards death is largely responsible for the popularity of gothic fiction. After all, life in gothic fiction never frees itself from the presence or threat of

Looking up to the sky he says, “[M]y eyes burned with anguish and anger,” (28). This is what sets him over the hill, his true epiphany, the ‘aha’

Details, details, details. Everything has details, especially when it comes to novels. In the books Perfume by Patrick Suskind and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Marquez, they both show signs of massive detail. When a great amount of detail is laid out, it helps the reader process everything that’s happening in the story and formulates images in the readers mind. It brings the story to life in a way that makes you take a second look around to make sure the story hasn’t become real.

Prior to the Interactive Oral Discussion, I thought that Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, was solely about the murder of Santiago Nasar. After discussing and analyzing the cultural, contextual, and social aspects of the story, I now realize that it has a much deeper meaning.

"what must be asked foremost to just rationalize what took place, to comprehend if I'm losing my mind amongst abstract dreams dreaming of a blissful, glorious paradise I cannot find? No, this is no time to be afraid. No, I'm not afraid, I'M NOT AFRAID!"