Neighbor Rosicky And The Tomorrow-Tamer

In “Confessions of a Liberal Gun Owner” by Justin Cronin, he uses logos, ethos, and pathos to discuss the pros and cons on the much debated topic of gun laws and ownership. His intent is to inform the readers of his view on the topic and why he appreciates and accepts gun usage.

As people near the time of their deaths, they begin to reflect upon the history and events of their own lives. Both John Keats’ “When I have Fears” and Henry Longfellow’s “Mezzo Cammin” reflect upon the speakers’ fears and thoughts of death. However, the conclusions between these two poems end quite differently. Although both reflect upon Death’s grasp, Keats’ displays an appreciation and subtle satisfaction with the wonders of life, while Longfellow morbidly mourns his past inactions and fears what events the future may bring.

In “The Last Stop” Brian Cable gives his rendition of what death is like and how we as human beings cope and handle it. Cable started the essay with his own view of death. In the first part he says, “Death is a subject largely ignored by the living. We don’t discuss it much, not as children, not as adults, and not even as seniors.” (104) Cable then gives a description of the mortuary he visits to interview a funeral director and its licensed mortician. He describes the building as, “a bit like a church, tall, with gothic arches and stained glass.” (104) He goes on to say that “it was not what I expected. I had thought it would be more like Forest Lawn, serene with green lush lawns and meticulously groomed gardens.” (104) However, instead

‘The Grave’ by Katherine Anne Porter is a story that illustrates the initiation of a child from innocence to experience. The underlying theme behind the central idea of innocence to experience is the cycle of life and death and rebirth. This theme is illustrated in the young protagonist, Miranda, and her epiphany on the concept of the cycle of life and rebirth. The dominant tone in ‘The Grave’ is melancholic, and that tone is created through the language elements of symbolism, diction, and imagery. The story’s tone is also supported by the fiction element character.

“What the dead don’t know piles up, though we don’t notice it at first,” is an insight in Roger Angell’s descriptive memoir, “Over the Wall” (414). Emotional responses, stimulating thoughts and solid feelings are elicited through the use of personal reflection, regarding the death of his wife, Carol. This literary nonfiction, memoir uses the present tense, a constant tone, and an informal view to help add immediacy, by keeping the reader involved step by step as the author connects his personal present and past experiences regarding death. Readers are continually intrigued by Angell’s literary nonfiction essay, with provoking thoughts focusing on death, while using figurative language to keep Carol alive, with the use of vivid personal reflections and descriptive personal experiences.

Death is a unique part of life, and loss is an unavoidable result of death. In Alice Walker’s 1973 short story “The Flowers”, childhood loss of innocence and death are illuminated through the experience of a child and her encounter with a dead man in post-slavery America. Louise Erdrich’s 1984 short story “The Red Convertible” is a story of loss in the face of death, set in Vietnam era America. Walker and Erdrich both use strong imagery and symbolism to effectively portray the impact of the common themes of loss and death in both short stories, albeit in different ways.

In the works of Wislawa Szymborska, the writer portrays death in different perspectives. The writer’s unique views of the world and her fascination with death are what create different themes in her poems. Whether positive or negative, the writer personifies death as a figure to recognize. Wislawa Szymborska sections her idealism of death into different themes.

In considering our current issue in society, people wonder if heroin clinics are a good or bad idea towards solving the problem, the increased use of heroin. Heroin is a psychoactive drug that is synthesized from morphine and is known to be highly addictive. Not only does heroin produce pleasurable effects for the user, but it can be potentially dangerous due to the user being unaware of the drugs purity and with tolerance developing rapidly, it poses an increased chance of overdosing. Based on European and Canadian models, advocates argue that the clinics will help provide addicts with a safe place to use, prevent the spread of disease and overdose deaths, and increase the odds that a drug user will return to a productive life. I could not agree anymore with this alternative way of treating this epidemic of increased heroin abuse. I believe heroin clinics will not only help

The short story, “This Way To The Gas, Ladies And Gentlemen” by Tadeusz Borowski and the poem “On My First Son” by Ben Johnson, both deal with death. They are very different types of death and are told in different ways but through some similar approaches, a similar feeling is portrayed to the reader of each.

The villagers conclude that "the bridge, clearly, had sacrificed its priest in order to appease the river" (103), and even the white man superintending the project is visited by the unsettling suspicion that "the damn thing almost was alive" (103). Kofi 's final apotheosis is achieved in his tribal capacity as priest rather than in his adopted profession as a bridgeman. The man who had tried to identify himself with the future achieves a paradoxical immortality by becoming assimilated to the most ancient of myths — "a man consumed by the gods lives forever" (104) — while the old gods quietly take up residence in the most arrogant monuments of modern technology.

“Death in the Woods” narrates a sequence of events—the life and death of Mrs. Grimes in its plot structure. This story does not just express the old woman’s tale, but re-tells it. The reader follows the narrator’s mental processes as he intertwines a series of half-remembered, half-fictionalized images, jumping from the old woman’s history to his own. In the first telling of the story, the narrator’s brother gives an inadequate version of it, which causes the narrator to tell it properly according to him. “Death in the Woods” begins with the narrator’s account of a certain type of old woman, describing her trips into town and characterizing her as ‘‘nothing special.’’ The exposition in “Death in the Woods” is uncovered throughout the story. Through the narrator, the reader is introduced to the characters. The characters, although, are perceived and viewed by the narrator in a specific aspect, which foes not give the reader a full understanding of the characters. This short story focuses on the central conflict of the events surrounding Mrs. Grimes freezing to death in the woods and the ensuing discovery of her body, but the story has several small conflicts throughout

Although the content of the story is largely devoted to events concerning her the progression of Olga’s metaphysical death, the opening is dedicated to the depiction of the her freshly erected grave. The early revelation of her death forces the reader to experience the course of her life with the foreknowledge of her imminent demise. This mindset is facilitated by the inclusion of the porcelain wreath and her portrait framed in a bronze medallion, which exist as representations of Olga herself that complement the nonlinear progression of her life. The cold porcelain of the wreath emphasizes the tragedy that the life of a girl as young and spirited as Olga has been extinguished so prematurely. The portrait demonstrates this duality of life and death through its placement and composition; although it portrays Olga as “a smart and charming school-girl, with happy, astonishingly vivacious eyes” (par. 1), the vitality depicted in the portrait stands in direct contrast to the cemetery setting which represents the conclusion of life. This paradoxical duality predicts Olga’s metaphysical death which will drive her into a state of

William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying navigates the ethics and politics of deathways by exploring the functional role of corpse disposal in constructing and deconstructing forms of community during an age of intense modernization. Inhabiting the periphery of a modern economic system as poor white subsistence farmers, but feeling forcefully the pull of the engulfing currents of modernity, the Bundren family undertakes a ten-day journey marred by fire and flood to bury their matriarch in Jefferson. Defining life and death as being co-imbricated, Faulkner parallels the ethics toward the dead and the ethics toward the precarious by showing how members of Yoknapatawpha engage in various modes of assistance or disavowal of the Bundren clan, coloring an ethical and political spectrum of responses to the dead and to the spectralized living. As the rotting corpse of Addie Bundren arrives in the center of the metropolis, forcing modernity to acknowledge the Bundrens as modern subjects-in-becoming, Faulkner, as I argue, grotesquely illustrates complexities of community during global modernization and urban migration and

The piece that demonstrates a wide scope of his worldview is Laments. Jan Kochanowski expresses his despair and emotions after the loss of his child in the form of treny. Treny are an older style of writing that praise the life and accomplishments of those who passed, especially well-known figures. Kochanowski’s Laments can be distinguished from the typical treny for the sole reason that the subject is a child instead of a famous or intellectual individual. However, the main character in Laments is Kochanowski himself. He plays the role of a grieving father and author who struggles to find the value and trust in any philosophy, religion and life itself after his daughter’s death disrupted his reality. In the article “Why We Write About Grief,” Oates explains that “Grief is the most humane of emotions but it is a one-sided emotion; it is not reciprocated.” This is exactly what makes Laments credible for the Kochanowski’s worldview through death. He experienced it himself as a parent; one cannot simply understand how it feels to lose a child. It is not a typical telling of a story about death; it is the dark emotions of a mourning father. Throughout the Laments, Kochanowski intertwines the theme of searching ways to relieve pain and his bitter reflection on death. Specifically, he expresses a rebellion against death.

The poem “Because I Could Not Stop For Death”, by Emily Dickinson, talks about death and the afterlife whereas “Mid-Term Break”by Seamus Heaney, is a poem that shows his attitude towards the death of his younger brother. I have chosen to do these 2 poems because of the theme “death”. “Mid-Term Break” is a poem that recaps the experience Seamus’ brothers death, whereas “Because I could Not Stop For Death” talks about being dead for centuries and how death is seen as a person. These two poems allow me to look at the different ways death is portrayed.