The Death Of Jim Loney Essay

1. Brother’s Funeral “When it came down to it, one of the called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the other is a lot more than one. (Zusack 18)”

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

"It was my folly! I have said it. But up to that epoch of my life, I had lived in vain. The world had been so cheerless! My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one!"

David Foster Wallace’s “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart,” essay highlights the dull, voiceless and unauthenticity that commercial autobiographies exhibit today. Following Wallace’s opening statements, he goes into detail on how the text is a “breathtaking insipid autobiography,” ruining the genre for him (142). The reading has many issues and fails to capture readers on many levels. Consequently, Wallace breaks down Tracy Austin’s autobiography, revealing the issues within.

“It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you

Lee Jenkins explores the elements of the rhetorical triangle, tone, diction, and structure in his exceptional piece, “A Good Man Down.” Jenkins writes an article about Ed Thomas, a football coach in Parkersburg, Iowa, who was shot and killed on June 24, 2009. Jenkins looks at how Thomas led the town through the hardships that they faced, and how they reacted to his death.

“I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case” (Page 194) In all of the time

In an article titled “Brainpower and Bankruptcy” by Wilson Quarterly, the idea that intelligence isn’t dependent on wealth is argued. Quarterly examines different IQ scores among varying incomes and argues that having a high IQ tends to put one in more financial distress. Quarterly states that “Intelligence alone doesn't explain why individuals succeed or fail in economic life.” This quote is a critical argument that supports Rose’s claim. Throughout Rose’s article his main idea is that a blue collar worker, receiving a low income, tends to hold more intelligence than typically perceived.

You made me who I am, I thought as he took his last breath. And I knew then that the answer to my question was yes” (322, Grande).

“Most times the stories were little more than anecdotes, short of breath and short of life.”

In his essay Hidden Intellectualism, Gerald Graff emphasizes the idea that to be an intellectual one does not have to excel in school. Graff argues that a person’s intelligence should not be measured by solely what they learned and how they progressed through school, rather, intelligence should be measured by more secular standards. Throughout the essay, Graff provides many examples on how this biased view of intellectualism affected him and others in his childhood and how he suggests that school curriculum be changed to better reflect the different types of intellectualism.

He was running at my side, out of breath, at the end of his strength, at wit's end. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his only support." (64).

Everyone wants to be the hero of their own story—the knight in shining armor that saves the day. The infallibility each person seeks in their own narrative, however, exists only through rose-tinted lenses. James Baldwin, in “Sonny’s Blues,” denies the reader, the narrator, and Sonny the ability to romanticize the truth. As a result, the sympathy the reader feels for the characters is limited, and the narrative, characters, and emotional impact of “Sonny’s Blues” becomes much more real. Baldwin controls the sympathy the reader feels towards both Sonny and the narrator through both reminding, and in order to remind, the reader of their real, imperfect humanity.

Tim wants his reader to know that stories can help us heal from wounds that life has delivered. Paul Berlin started to try to move on from Billy’s death but that was hard to do. When the helicopter came to pick Billy’s body up he couldn’t stop laughing. He didn’t know why he was laughing at a time like that, but he

Ron will continue to harass Julia and/or other employees. In addition, Julia could loose her job because there might be layoffs in her new department.