The Death Of Death - Original Writing

Throughout every story there remains a valuable impact onto the reader. Novels and Short stories often stand as the brilliant creation with a mastermind not far behind. One of the most recently studied works: Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicles of a Death Foretold; Showing a great example of styles and variations in writing. Without detail, art cannot prevail in iconic value. The iconic value of a piece depends upon how many different ways the reader can interpret the piece. In Chapter one of Chronicles of a Death Foretold most readers already understood someone croaked, however the form Marquez chose to describe the death relics gruesome imagery for the painter. The canvas and colors selected by Marquez gave the “true painter” an instant entrance

“The violence of the crash, the noise, the small table overturning, helped bring her out of he shock. She came out slowly, feeling cold and surprised, and she stood for a while blinking at the body, still holding the ridiculous piece of meat tight

When the rain stopped and the sun started to come out, I finally went to my car. I opened the driver’s side door, sat down, and closed it. I banged my hands on the dashboard multiple times and screamed. The tears came back, streaming down my face as if they were rivers themselves. When at last there were no more tears left to flow out, I turned my head towards the bridge and for the last time, I glared out at the spot where she stood before her

Society has been dominated for centuries by a relentless amount of distinctions that have separated mankind in nearly any area of life. From features to wealth, physical entities that define classes of people continually craft the world with an inherent structure that disables any two individuals from achieving equality. However, there is one event that shatters the confines of this rigid world. Death. However, Hurston attacks this notion of death as the great equalizer of the society as to depict a world where racism seeps into all aspects of one’s existence. After the hurricane in which Tea Cake and Janie worked tirelessly to escape its wrath, they are exposed to a world with a greater resemblance to hell than the place they once called home.

“One, Two, THREE!” Lennie and I sprint toward the bus. I don’t think I have ever seen Lennie run so fast. Just as I think we have made it to safety, a gunshot goes off. Right in front of the old bus, I fall to my knees as my vision becomes blurry. Even through all of the noise and commotion, all I can hear is my ears ringing. Most people would be scared or angry that they are dying, but I was happy because Lennie was safe. Surprisingly, the bus driver took Lennie and drove off. The bus before had just seemed like a bus, but now it was like a chariot, because it carried the only thing important to me in it. As the sight of the bus became vague, my eyes slowly shut and my smile slowly

The common theme that I found throughout these three articles was our ability to handle the topic of death. People (at least I know I personally do this) tend to side step the topic of death. We use terms such as “passed away” or “aren’t with us anymore” in order to sugarcoat the true reality of the situation. “Die” to us just sounds so harsh and terrifying. Not only do we phrase death in certain ways, but we also tend to ignore the facts. Wolff talks about how we all know how we are going to end up: we all have subconsciously acknowledged that it is highly likely that we will end up in a hospital bed somewhere unable to remember our closest friends and family. However, we put this in the back of our mind and do not think about it. This is

He went to the inert form and took her over his shoulder, like she was a prize or booty for a pirate and went outside. He looked around at the darkness and went to the truck, putting her in the back and then putting the tarp over her. She would awake to a massive headache and terror as he went back to her apartment to clean things up.

Traditionally, women have been known as the less dominant sex. They have been stereotyped as being only housewives and bearers of the children. Many interesting characters in literature are conceived from the tension women have faced with men. This tension is derived from men; society, in general; and within a woman herself. Kate Chopin‘s short story, “The Story of an Hour”, focus on a woman’s dilemma near the turn of the 19th century. Contradicting the “normal” or sad assumption of death, “The Story of an Hour” illustrates the significance of death representing freedom. The Story narrates about an hour of Louise Mallard’s life, as she tries to understand, and deal with her feelings of her husbands death.

In the novel “After the First Death” Miro, The General, and Ben had things happen to them that were unpleasant. Miro experienced regret threw the death of someone. The general experienced it by sending his own son. Ben experienced it threw depression, he felt like he let his dad down. They all experienced regret threw this novel in different ways.

“The slow-motion tire screech./That empty highway. I remember trying to listen/for the elevator doors closing in the lobby” (lines 13-15). The daughter could feel the family coming crashing down as the break occurred. She understood what was happening, but she didn’t understand how it would impact the entire family. As the mother exits, she leaves this gaping hole of stability.

We all struggle with our own immortality, many authors use death to declare their thoughts and beliefs on what it feels like, and what happens during the process of death. Stories such as Dorothy Richardson’s “Death” and Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, use a stream of conscious narration to get across to the reader that death is different and one in the same for everyone. Richardson and Porter use the stream of consciousness to add depth to their characters, and to tell the story of their characters experiences before dying and their thoughts of their life. Answers.com tells us that the stream of consciousness is a “literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur”.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold Reflective Statement In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s journalistic narrative, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, he takes on a unique style of writing to outline the social norm in the Columbium society. The discussions in class allowed me to see the roles of gender and magical realism in the story. The women in the novel are usually trained to be a perfect wife, and are expected to remain a virgin until marriage. They are the inferior gender in the Colombian society, while the men on the other hand are supposed to have a lot of “machismo.”

McCrea and Cheng have differing views on the role of identity within Joyce’s “The Dead.” McCrea argues that identity is incomplete because of the limitations of language whereas Cheng argues that the cultural atmosphere shapes identity. I, however, agree with certain aspects of both arguments. Firstly, I believe that McCrea’s focus on failed communication is needed to understand the nature of identity within “The Dead;” however, McCrea incorrectly blames everything on the failure of language, when the individual and society is also partly responsible. Therefore, I believe that Cheng’s argument, that the environment partly forms identity, is valid; however, he needlessly restricts the Conroys’ identities by directly comparing them to Britain and Ireland. I will use Cheng’s focus on a culturally formed identity in tandem with McCrea’s thematic focus on failed communication within “The Dead” to answer the question of why Gabriel Conroy’s identity fades at the end of “The Dead” (248). To answer this question, I will consider Gabriel’s personal thoughts about himself, others, and how he responds to each challenge he receives to his personhood.

"My personal impression is that he died without understanding his death" (Marquez 101). The above statement is stated by the narrator in Marquez's text. The novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold tells the story of the narrator's return in a small Colombian town in the 1950's to resolve the details of the murder of his close friend, Santiago Nasar, who is a handsome and wealthy man, who is dead due to Anglea’s lies. Angela Viscario is a beautiful girl, who is not a virgin. She lies about Santiago taking her virginity, due to this false statement, her twin brothers Pedro and Pablo Viscario decide to kill him to restore the family's honor. In the book Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Santiago Nasar is a victim of murder

Although a scene of a funeral home might come to mind when a reader first hears a short story aptly named “The Dead,” the tale actually takes place in the festive setting of a winter dance at the home of the two aunts of the main character, Gabriel Conroy. James Joyce’s short story “The Dead” has a literal title, because its main concept is death – both physical death and spiritual death.