The Day Of The Night

The idea of death can be, and is an enormously disturbing, unknown issue in which many people can have many different opinions. To some individuals, the process of life can progress painstakingly slow, while for others life moves too fast. In the excerpt We Were the Mulvaneys, by Joyce Carol Oates, a innocent farm boy named Judd Mulvaney has an eye-opening encounter by a brook near his driveway. During this encounter, Judd faces a chain of feelings and emotions that lead to his change of opinion of the issues of life and death, and change as a character. This emblematic imagery of life and death, as well as jumpy, and retrospective tones benefit the development of Judd as an innocent child as he begins to change into a more conscious and aware adult.

Death, besides being present in the form of the characters' mortality, also dominates much of the conversation, such as the brief discussion of an order of monks where they "got up at

Death is a topic that unites all of humanity. While it can be uncomfortable to think about, confronting death in unavoidable. “Dying” addresses that discomfort and universal unwillingness to consider the inevitability of death. Pinsky’s use of imagery, symbolism, and tone create a poetic experience that is like death, something every reader can relate to. In “Dying,” Pinsky describes how people are oblivious and almost uncaring when it comes to the thought of death. Pinsky is trying to convince the reader that they shouldn’t ignore the concept of death because life is shorter than it seems.

When Eve is diagnosed with brain cancer, she finds herself fighting the temptation of not giving in to the fear of death. Sickness forces her to overcome mental challenges that present themselves with being removed from her family and feeling death constantly loom around her. Eve admits to Enzo, the narrator, one night that “It's [cancer] bigger than me [her]. It's everywhere” (Stein 161). In this moment Eve feels that giving into fear is her easiest option. Despite this, Eve triumphs over her previous thoughts of death by finally accepting her situation. “Do you see? I'm [She’s] not afraid of it [death] anymore… Because it's not the end” (Stein 161). Eve realized that fighting death itself was not what she was battling, rather fighting her urge to give into the fear that comes with dying. In contrast to her previous anxious and doubtful mentality, Eve’s perseverance over her fear lead to a yet anticipated, but

The character of Death has human like empathy rather than just being the supernatural being readers would expect. The narrator tries to give their work more positive meaning by collecting stories and the emotions that come from the people he sees within his work. Such as Liesel, the protagonist from this novel. A “life” of the

He first emphasizes how ample and bright the place is. He also narrates how there are “poisonous particles… as motes in sun-beams, into the lungs” (40). He expresses how suffocating this place is with a cough (14). The fact that the women don’t cough and are “used to it” is like saying they don’t breathe anymore. He describes the women as the “blank-looking girls, with blank, white folders in their blank hands” (12). He portrays these women as cadavers being preserved in this cold place, like a morgue. He says, “…face pale with work, and blue with cold; an eye supernatural with unrelated misery” (11). He is intentionally making the reader feel they are dead alive through the description of a physical death, then a social and emotional death.

In the beginning of the bible, the world was dark. Then God created light in order to make it brighter. However, when the God is not here to protect the light, Night overtook. It is a time of darkness. It is also a place where people cannot see and help each other. Because of the faith in God, the darkness, hopeless of Night, and the period of Night, Elle Wiesel’s famous short novel is called “Night”, which is very significant for Elle Wiesel as well as the Jews during World War II.

In Tim’s first up-close and personal encounter with death, Linda, his girlfriend, dies of cancer before turning ten. When Tim attends her wake and sees her body, he is unable to cope with the reality of her death. Instead, he imagines that she is awake and normal and having a conversation with him. Through this conversation with a dead person, Tim comes to realize that his imagination - the stories that he makes up - can keep people alive after their deaths. If he remembers Linda’s corpse, that is all she can ever be, but if he continues to have conversations with her, to imagine her alive, to tell stories about her, then she remains alive as he portrays her. Though told at the end of the book, this vignette becomes a lens through which Tim views death throughout and explains why Tim, the character, and O’brien, the author, tell stories about dead friends. Tim tells stories about death - the death of his friend Kiowa, the postwar suicide of Norman Bowker, the corpse of the man he killed, the tragic accident that killed Ted Lavender, and Linda’s battle with cancer - to preserve the life of people he

So much had changed in so little time. As of yesterday and today, we have been on a train with no food and water. I couldn’t think of anything possibly worse than this. Throughout the night, Madame Schafter, a quiet, kind mother, howled all night about a fire which only she could see, which scared me. If someone so calm and level headed was hallucinating, what was I? “‘Look! Look at this fire! This terrible fire!’” (Wiesel 25). What fire was she talking about? Was she talking about the h*ll we were enduring on the cattle car? I had heard rumors that there were crematories wherever we were going, if they were even true. Men in the cattle car tied her up and gagged her, and eventually beat her into silence (Wiesel 26). Although I pitied Madame Schafter, her screaming was driving me crazy, and I too felt the urge to slap her across the face, anything to silence the screaming. I guess that as of now, thinking straight is out of the question. Little did I know that thinking straight would be out of the question for a very long time.

The theme of death is sprinkled throughout the entire novel. Katie and Lynn’s first experience with

Finally, the reader is introduced to the character around whom the story is centered, the accursed murderess, Mrs. Wright. She is depicted to be a person of great life and vitality in her younger years, yet her life as Mrs. Wright is portrayed as one of grim sameness, maintaining a humorless daily grind, devoid of life as one regards it in a normal social sense. Although it is clear to the reader that Mrs. Wright is indeed the culprit, she is portrayed sympathetically because of that very lack of normalcy in her daily routine. Where she was once a girl of fun and laughter, it is clear that over the years she has been forced into a reclusive shell by a marriage to a man who has been singularly oppressive. It is equally clear that she finally was brought to her personal breaking point, dealing with her situation in a manner that was at once final and yet inconclusive, depending on the outcome of the legal investigation. It is notable that regardless of the outcome, Mrs. Wright had finally realized a state of peace within herself, a state which had been denied her for the duration of her relationship with the deceased.

Though this can be considered romantic to an extent, it is the vigour, seriousness and enthusiasm Babette and Jack discuss who will die first that evokes the sense of cynicism. Through this cynical conversation the paranoia is seen as that anxiety and fear of death pervades their thoughts. The discussion of death this blatantly in the novel does provide a sense of critique and insight into the postmodern American as with the emergence of technology and popular culture, a level of desensitisation of a once taboo subject occurs and Babette and Jack act as examples of this. Both characters “help us to redefine death as something other than a terror, and enjoyment of this requires some detachment on the part of the individual. It has also been argued that we may be more accepting of death, dying, and the dead because of our frequent exposure to these phenomena through our popular culture.

In the short story “The Dead”, author James Joyce brings a mix of emotions into the character Gilbert’s mind. From the beginning of the passage, Gilbert uses negative diction in a story from his own point of view to express his feelings of death. Gilbert stares at his sleeping wife throughout the passage, and by starting off the reader can tell of his negative connotations expressed. Gilbert has to understand the meaning of death in the novel by looking at his wife and comparing, “yet a strange friendly pity for her.”

In Rowana’s Agajanian’s exerpt, Nothing Like Any Previous Material Musical: British or American depicts the highly influential economic and social factors of the film A Hard Day’s Night between the audience of Britain and the United States. A Hard Day’s Night was filmed by American enterprises by producer Walter Shenson and director Richard Lester. The film was created to expand the fame and musical recognition of the Beatles among the America and Britain. The intended purpose of the musical comedy was to reflect the public and private lives of The Beatles by taking the audience on a whimsical journal through an extraordinary 36 hours of a typical day in The Beatles life. The four main factors that contributed to the film was to reflect

“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