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Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin The theme of death is a recurring idea in the movie Temple Grandin, as she witnesses and experiences many deaths throughout the story. In the beginning when she is attending Mountain Country School, she comes across a horse named Chestnut. She immediately took a liking to him even though at first he came off very aggressive and was thought of as dangerous by staff. Temple was able to calm him down so that she could get very close and even pet him. Shortly after meeting Chestnut, he unexpectedly passes away and leaves Temple with many confusing questions. After that, a dear professor to her, professor Carlock, passes away suddenly. He was one of the only teachers that took a chance on Temple and pushed her to excel in school. …show more content…

With the first death of Chestnut, Temple thought of his passing as very literal and in a scientific sense. She couldn’t understand where he went and and why he was no longer there; she was more perplexed by the event than she was sad. Professor Carlock suggested that she no longer think about it and just try to remember Chestnut as he was when he was living instead. With the death of Mr. Carlock, she was very surprised because she had just seen him a few days before his passing and didn’t know that he was sick. With this death, she started to understand that life can take a turn for the worst at any moment and that unexpected tragedies can happen at any moment. As she begins working in slaughterhouses, she becomes more comfortable with the idea of death because that is what her job is centered around and she …show more content…

It’s hard when you’re experiencing grief not to think that their passing isn’t fair and that they still had so much more life to live. It’s difficult to comprehend that you will never be able to see, or touch, or talk to ever again. I see why Temple was thinking in such a literal way because when you get down to it, it's complicated to comprehend how someone can be breathing and alive one second and the next they are gone forever. There have been studies and tests done that show when someone dies, they instantly become slightly lighter and weigh less. Some say that’s when the soul leaves the body and scientists have tried to calculate the exact weight of the soul. But the question is, where do we go when our souls are no longer embedded in our bodies? Do we inhabit new bodies? Do we stay spirits forever and never have a chance at life again? I think the reason the idea of death is so interesting and puzzling is because we will never truly know what actually happens to living things when they

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