Sum : Forty Tales From The Afterlives By David Eagleman

The End Or Something Like That is the book I read the author of this book is Ann Dee Ellis it was published in May 1 2014 it has 346 pages in the book and has won no awards.

When we have strong love for others, we take risks, we go against our beliefs, we put ourselves in danger, and we let our loved ones go. Without love, there would be none of that. In this book, The Dead and the Gone, written by Susan Beth Pfeffer, a comet smashes the moon closer to earth and it creates all sorts of problems. Alex, a teenage boy with two sisters, starts a long journey of survival and risks. This story is so realistic, at times was hard to read. You start to ask yourself these tough questions, like what you would do in a specific situation. Through out the whole story, love is definitely a recurring theme. It shows you how well love can hold a family is distress together.

Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, “The real question of life after death isn 't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.” The idea that death is inevitable is well known by everyone, yet no one is certain as to what happens afterwards. Even though the subject of life after death has been argued for centuries by many philosophers and theologians. In the article Sign Here If You Exist, Jill Sisson Quinn adequately employs figurative language, rhetoric questionings, and personal anecdotes to demonstrate a controversial argument on the topic of life after death.

A hero is not only someone with superpowers but can be anyone. It can be anyone like you or me. A hero is someone who is willing to stand up for other people. The book, A Lesson Before Dying, takes place in Louisiana and is about an innocent Black man convicted and sent to the electric chair. In the story there are real people that Ernest Gaines alludes to. Ernest Gaines makes an allusion to Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson. Beside these two, Mamie Till also stepped up and was audacious. They were all fearless and gave hope to many other people because of what they were doing. These heroes took a stand against society and changed the world for everyone.

As I read the reading “death”, I can conclude that the main idea for this reading that the author wants his readers to believe that the death is not something scary. We all should not be afraid about the fact that our bodies will cease to exist after death.

Many cultures have had “dark” pasts and histories. Some have had terrible wars, while others have had mass killings. Other cultures have had problems with discrimination towards diverse or dissimilar cultures and races. There are many reasons for this discrimination, but in the majority of cases, the most common reason is simply because of a difference between them. These differences can vary from physical appearances to cultural, traditional, or religious beliefs. Differences can lead to a culture’s social status of privilege for one race or group over another. One culture, or country, where this was apparent, was in the United States, specifically in the South. Slavery can be seen as one of the United State’s negative times in history.

Death is viewed as a gate to meet God and live an eternal life with him. Whatever happens at death is always a mystery. In much religious death once everyone dies they will face judgment by God (Noebel,2006). Death is not the end of life; it is the beginning of eternal existence. Postmodernism has no moral absolutes but rather places responsibility into the hands of the

“A Lesson Before Dying” is known as an outstanding book, in which I would have to agree on. The book has many excellent messages and morals throughout its entirety, But no other message speaks out more than the message of “Becoming a Man” and the obstacles you must first tackle before achieving that message. The author of “A Lesson Before Dying”, Ernest J. Gaines, expresses this throughout the book immensely. In many ways also making this the theme of the book.

Abstract The author’s perception and treatment of Everyman are that each individual need to prepare for it by repenting, following God, and doing good works. The author’s perception is that at the end of the day one cannot take anything or anyone with them when they die. The only entity someone can take is their actions and how they use the resources that are given to them. Those who put God before everything and perform good works will enjoy eternity with Him, but those who enjoy only the pleasures of life and forget God, will not. The author’s main message throughout the play is to not fearful of death but know that one day everyone will die, so do as much good as one can, repent of one’s sins, and to put God first. Keywords: author, perception, treatment, death The Author’s Perception and Treatment of Death in Everyman In the late fifteenth century, an unknown author wrote a morality play called Everyman. According to Pearson, a morality play during the Medieval period would communicate a moral lesson and make it so simple that both illiterate and well-educated audiences could both understand the lesson (Adu-Gyamfi, 2016). One may believe that the author of Everyman want to communicate to the audience that everyone will receive judgment the actions they commit on Earth. The author’s perception of death is that God is the only one who has the power to control when each individual die, so if one has a relationship with Him one should not be fearful death. The author

This novel is set in a fictional community of Bayonne, Louisiana, in the late 1940s. The setting in this story is important because of it’s informative background about the main protagonist, Jefferson whom is unfairly treated and sentenced to death for something he didn’t commit. The novel expresses the racism,injustice,and segregation.

Over the course of human events, men and women of all ages fought and worked relentlessly to better their lives and their families' lives as well. Despite the arduous efforts, each and every one of those people ended up or will end up exactly the same: buried six feet under the ground. Life and death are the largest eventualities to happen to humans as a whole, yet most sentient beings, particularly humans, are afraid of death, due mainly to the natural fear of the unknown. "Numbers" by Mary Cornish seems to beg the question of what does it mean to truly be alive. Being alive is to expand horizons and to feel what life has to offer or simply to be happy, but in layman's terms, life is more than just being born, surviving and finally dying.

In his poignant and moving novel, A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines asks us questions that reignite our own quest for the meaning of compassion. What do you teach a man condemned to die? What lesson might be useful in the final month of a man’s life? Is there a futility that we succumb to when we accept the judgment of men? These are the questions faced by Grant Wiggins, a young, black school teacher who has returned to his small Louisiana hometown following his college education. Persuaded by his aunt to counsel Jefferson, also a young, black man who has been sentenced to die for an armed robbery in which he was an unwitting bystander. Not to exonerate him, but to teach him. To give him something to call his own before he leaves this earth: knowledge.

Lucretius, translated by John Dryden, appeals to me on a higher level in it’s telling of an after life than Twain and Plato’s. Robert Hertz once claimed “each society constructs in its own image” an afterlife for it’s peoples souls to dwell in. The way in which I was raised and the societies I grew up around influenced me to understand the truths about death. It is trivial to spend time thinking of what waits for a human being after death because there is no way of knowing for sure. Lucretius wrote,“Death to us and death’s anxiety is less that nothing, if less cou’d be.” Lucretius points out that death is the one immovable truth in life; constantly worrying about death and prophesying what it will bring takes away from the life you are now currently living. In Twain’s piece, Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven, a man chases comets for thirty years after death and when he finally does reach heaven, he discovers it is vast and more complex beyond measure. Twain uses his story to speak out against the incongruities of popular christian beliefs during his time. How can the living know what the dead are

Within the threaded binding of the novel, The Hummingbird, author, Stephen Kiernan, states: “Mortality is life’s way of teaching us how to love.” This quote stands as the core of this compelling bildungsroman. Being known for using the setting of death and war in his previous titles such as “The Curiosity”, “American Patriotism”, and “Last Rights” Keirnan is specifically expansive with the relationship between life and death. He divides this novel into two different narratives: one, the the story of the main character, Deb Birch, a dedicated hospice nurse and wife to a soldier struggling with PTSD; the other, a framework narrative, an unverified manuscript of the only attack on American soil during World War 1 apart from Pearl Harbor. Through alternating narratives, historical context, and a medical setting, Kiernan pieces together the puzzle of two intertwining stories to reveal the reflection death has on the living and the powerful presence of love.

As a member of the curious human race, I think it is safe to say that we all, at one point or another in our lives, think about the puzzling and mysterious concept that is the afterlife. Is there an ultimate destination for our souls to arrive at once we leave the comprehendible earth? What connection will our past experiences on earth have on our life subsequent to our death? Who or what is the director of this complex journey we call life? These are the “mind-boggling” questions asked by those who are blindly searching that David Eaglemen, while assuming the role as one of those desperate “explorers”, attempts to answer in a whimsical yet sardonic manner.