The Mummy - Original Writing

In spite of all the love they had for one other, and is sad that her husband is now dead, she is excited about the news that she will be free for the first time to do whatever she wanted. Instead of dreading the days ahead without her husband, she looks forward to them (Friedman,

In "A Sorrowful Woman" the wife is depressed with her life, so much so, "The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again"(p.1). This wife and mother has come to detest her life, the sight of her family,

Nancy suddenly became quiet and sighed. As tears streaming down from Nancy’s face, she look out the window and tried to avoid the author eye contact. The author hold Nancy’s hand and sat quiet beside her until she calmed down and continue her story. Nancy said that her early adulthood was the most painful period of her life. When she was 21 years old, her husband died. He was diagnosed with malaria and died when he was in the military of Viet Nam war. Nancy did not have a chance to stay beside her husband before he died. She was overwhelm and lost the will to live. Also at that time, she found out that she was pregnant; it was her first child. She had to face a lot of difficult situations that she could not tell anyone. She did not want her

The father’s way of dealing with his inner issues is reflected by the way he distracts himself with hobbies of the women he loves. This illustrates how a sudden tragedy can influence someone’s lifestyle. In fact, before his first wife passed away he showed a lot of interest in art and when she died he was lost and devastated ,” (…) after mom died, my sister and I used to worry about his living alone. And he was lonely.We knew that after putting in his usual twelve-hours workday, he would return to the empty house (...) then read medical journals until it was time to go to sleep.”(16). This implies that

The death of the narrator’s daughter, Grace, is something that the narrator suffers a lot and it is shocking for him as a father and a family. He remembers that his mother has given him the responsibility to take care of his brother, Sonny, which he is not able to do so. The death of his daughter leads him to approach his brother and listen to Sonny about what does he feels about life he has been going through for a long time.

The narrator is an undoubted neurotic man. Fist of all, he is pure isolated, which comes to surface when his wife mentions that he is on possession of any friends. In a sense, he feels

In the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the unprecedented ending was marked by the dramatic last words of the grandmother: “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own babies.” This revelation furthers the contrast between the families of both the grandmother and the Misfit, while enforcing the similarities between the grandmother and the Misfit. Throughout the story, the author skillfully adds hints to describe the relationship that the grandmother has with her son and her grandchildren.

His wife was also very independent and industrious. She, too, owned her own restaurant in this community. She was a very hard working woman. Her education had been interrupted, when both her parents passed away within two years of each other. She was seven when her mother passed and nine when her father passed period. She didn’t let that stop her. She lived with her brothers and sisters until of age. At the age of 18 she left the security of her brothers and sisters homes to begin her life in the unknown. The rest is history.

       As the tale begins we immediately can sympathize with the repressive plight of the protagonist.  Her romantic imagination is obvious as she describes the "hereditary estate" (Gilman, Wallpaper 170) or the "haunted house" (170) as she would like it to be.  She tells us of her husband, John, who "scoffs" (170) at her romantic sentiments and is "practical to the extreme" (170).  However, in a time

The short story heavily revolves around the protagonist woman Mary and her depressed son. The two are driving home from the hospital and the tension between them is very high. The reader is told that Mary and her husband Seamus was married for 20 years before conceiving David which resulted in the two being older parents and even more importantly not expected to become parents. Mary can’t comprehend what has made David so depressed though she realises that she may could have been there for him more often when he was growing up. The primary themes in the story is depression and the journey from life to death, furthermore motherly love and family dynamic plays an important role in the story “She smiled at the idea that now she would have two of them for company” (P.3, L. 84). The story is narrated by a third person omniscient narrator, this is evident by the narrator knowing the different character’s thoughts and furthermore the story begins with in media res “Mammy, how do people die?” he had asked, and Mary explained

Percival paused beneath the tree shade for a moment and took in the home 's appearance. Someone had taken their time to build the structure. The wattle-and-daub home was small, but carefully built with clean, even lines and

“Love is both a many splendored and splintered thing, leaving us torn and healed through every decade of life. Old age is not for sissies. Neither is old love.” (Morris, 2015) Bob Morris expressed his feelings towards his father’s old romance in this way. Old Morris developed a romantic relationship at the age of 81 with whom he called “a lady friend” named Arlene, a widow, not long after his wife died. (Morris, 2015) The relationship that lasted for over a year brought Old Morris both euphoria and torture. He was struggling with his increasingly vulnerable physical condition, source of frustration and depression, while maintaining the lovely romantic relationship with Arlene from which he gained joy and happiness. (Morris, 2015) This character analysis paper explores Old Morris’s developmental tasks, psychosocial crisis, and central process associated with his developmental stage, and ecological factors and systemic levels that influenced most on his coping with the crisis.

The mother’s death marks a change in the family. The “old father very quickly went to pieces,” (Desai) and could not adjust

I am eight years old, standing in front of the bathroom mirror. Inside, I see a creature with ferocious red eyes, bulging out of its sockets. Thousands of swelling bumps envelope its body while dark, malevolent sags droop over its cheekbones. From the mirror’s reflection, the creature appears to be at peace, yet a wave of hostility emits from it at the same time. I slow down, carefully turning around to see the beast.

As written previously, a woman loses her family tragically. The first family member she loses is her seven teen year old little brother, Robbie. He was murdered on a cold December night. After short six months, she loses her mother, who could not bear the grief of losing her only son. The only person, who is left in the woman’s life for