The Dead Literary Analysis

The Graveyard Book (2008) by Neil Gaiman breaks down the borderline between the dead and living world in his novel. Gaiman presents an irony in his novel by giving the caring nature to the dead people of the graveyard. He presents the graveyard as a safe place for an innocence, rather than the living world. Silas is a mysterious character throughout the novel and his existence is not stated very clearly amongst the living and dead. However, there are some evidence in the novel, which unravels the existence of Silas as an undead being, whose life is caught in-between the border line of life and death. Silas is a reformed version of a vampire, who is travelling through the darkness of life for the search of light.

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

A Long Way Gone shows how over time one’s character can be changed completely due to circumstances. For example, A Long Way Gone gives an understanding of how the most innocent children can become the most outrageous killers. Survival plays a very huge theme in the book because of the situations Ishmael had to go through. . Ever since Ishmael escaped from the chaos that was happening in Mattru Jong, Beah mainly had to focus on his survival every single day. Such an incident happened in Chapter 4. “Things changed rapidly in a matter of seconds and no one had any control over anything. We had yet to learn these things and implement survival tactics, which was what it came down to,” (Beah, 29). In Chapter 10, the boys are given meat at night

Has someone ever noticed that one of their family members was alike a story character? My Grandpa Al was similar to Jefferson in the book A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. This story gives a pleasing insight into Jefferson’s journey into becoming a man. Jefferson and my Grandpa Al are related in the way that they both never valued the joyfulness of life enough until it was too late. The two also resemble each other on the level that they are held back by the environment they are growing up in. They each needed to strive to become true to themselves.

In Into the Wild, Krakauer alludes to the works of Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau, and Jack London to show how Chris McCandless’ infatuation with existentialist literature influenced his decision to leave society behind and venture into the wild.

In The Chosen, the author Chaim Potok sets the story in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the 1940s where World War II and isolation have meaningful effects on the protagonists, Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter. Danny is the son of Reb Saunders, an important figure in the Hasidic Jewish community, while Reuven is the son of David Malter, a prominent Orthodox Jewish scholar. The story begins with a baseball game, kickstarting the book, as “Danny and [Reuven] would have never met if not for America’s entry into the Second World War and the desire this [breeds] on the part of some English teachers in the Jewish parochial schools in and around our area into competitive leagues” (Potok 12). Eventually, the atrocities of the Holocaust

Within the passage of James Joyce’s short story ‘The Dead’, symbolism and imagery is used to explore the relationship between Gabriel and his wife, Gretta. Symbolism of snow and fire is used to contrast the two characters of Gabriel and Gretta; Gabriel is represented as a lost snowflake who is uncertain of himself whereas Gretta has a contrasting personality where she has confidence and is very much adventurous. Whilst romantic imagery is used to connect the two characters through their intimate relationship alluding to nature and angelic connotations. Joyce presents snow as an essential feature in the lives of his protagonists, Gretta and Gabriel.

In Stoker’s novel Dracula, Dracula takes the reader down a long and twisted road following Count Dracula as he navigates. Dracula takes an introspective look at the dark and evil side of Count Dracula as he traverses the European countryside looking for his next victim. As you weave your way through this novel, there are a number of important literary elements and psychoanalytical present.

James Joyce wrote Dubliners to show the paralysis of the people of Ireland and how the nature of routine plays a huge part in their lives. The people of Dublin are confined and used to routines that they are unable to escape Ireland. No matter how hard they try to leave they wind up right back to where they originally were. The major themes in Dubliners that was articulated in Joyce’s stories was the repetitiveness of routines, and the sense of escape. “The Dead” was the last story in Dubliners that brought together all of his ideas. Joyce created Gabriel in many ways like himself and it is believed that “The Dead” is based of of Joyce’s life. Gabriel is a man who is educated but is very awkward in social situations. However Gabriel doesn’t

After I reached the bodies it was extremely hard for me to recognize the victims. When I reached down towards the bodies that was dressed in camos, I carefully looked at the dog tags through the mutilated mess. I reached for them and wiped the blood off to where I finally was able to read them; it had Dwayne’s name on them. As reinforcements began to approach our location, it dawned on me Dwayne had seen the bomb that was strapped to the child’s chest.

The short story “To hell with dying” by Alice Walker is told from a first-person narrative by the daughter of a family who “lived down the road” (1) from a man named Mr. Sweet. “Mr. Sweet was a diabetic and an alcoholic and a guitar player” (1) whom would have near death experiences through his low points in life and would be revived by the children. Walker uses imagery to describe the revival of Mr. Sweet, “To hell with dying, man,” my father would say” (1) trying to call him back from “the brink of death,” (1) the youngest of the children “would kiss him all over his wrinkled brown face and tickle him so that he would laugh all down his stomach, and his mustache…” (1) The Daughter tells the story in a past tense, going back to her memories

In the heart wrenching story, “The Dead” the main characters Gabriel and Gretta take readers on an emotional twist of events. During the story author James Joyce show how the dead affects the environment and mood of the living. During an eventful high profile party Gretta, Gabriel's wife, hears a song that takes her back in time causing her to be lost in thought. When arriving home from the party and discussing Gretta’s lost thoughts, it gives Gabriel a sense of lost pride and triggers Gabriel to have a somber epiphany. In the story James Joyce portrays a sense of insecurity, love and guilt from character to character; leaving readers with a regrettable taste.

The Dead Poets Society was made in 1989 and was directed by Peter Weir. It has taken place in Vermont during 1959 at a very strict and traditional boarding school called Welton, or “Hell-ton” Academy. This school is a prestigious place for white young men. The film was a major hit receiving critical acclaim and popularity in the box office. This movie is so wonderful because John Keating, played by Robin Williams, portrays a very nontraditional teacher that makes his students share in his love of poetry. Mr. Keating is a man who is true to himself and teaches his students this. Mr. Keating tried to take the boys away from the traditional classroom setting and sings and jokes with them.

In the short story "The Dead", the creator James Joyce certainly and unequivocally breathes life into an unpredictable character, Gabriel, through the abstract literary elements of motif and symbolism.

In the movie “Dead Poets Society”, one of the main characters, Neil Perry, is emotionally unstable and after setting up the Dead Poets Society, he commits suicide. He does this after the school play in which he starred in, but his dad told him he must go to military school and go to Harvard and become a doctor. Who is responsible for his death? It is hard to say who caused his death, but Neil did pull the trigger. However, Mr. Perry, Mr. Keating, and Neil himself were all responsible for his death.