Unhappy Death Day : A Short Story

Within the article "A Life Worth Ending" Michael Wolff recounts the events of his ill mother at her final stage of life. Along with his own battle with a flawed healthcare system. Wolff Brilliantly intertwines literary elements with the use of characterization and his first point of view to tell his story.

In paragraph two on the second page the author introduces a new character that had been referred to as one of the bullies. This character gets introduced with a conversation between the main character and the bully. “What’re you looking at?” said William. Before this Margot was staring out the window, waiting for the sun to come out. William being the bully he is, questions everything margot does. This is important to the development of the main character Margot because it shows her relationship between the rest of her classmates.

One way Margot struggles with fitting in is she never joins in on anything. In paragraph 29 they all edged away from Margot they would not even look at her then she felt them leave. In paragraph 26 William said “What are you looking at.” Then in paragraph 27 Margot says “nothing.’’

So she had to move to South Carolina with her mother and stepfather. Once she moved her she felt like her life had took a tragic turn. Her stepfather was abusive to her mother and he really didn’t want her to live with them. She felt out of place and she really missed her father and the way she was use to growing 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.

Soon, she was at school and it was the day the sun would come out. But the other kids did not want her to see the sun. In the end they locked her in a closet and did not let her out until the sun left and went away. This story shows that the other kids struggled with understanding Margot.

The children all looked at the ground sadly, not knowing what else to say. They couldn’t help but feel horrible. Margot silently walked past them. She had a chance to see the sun again, and had missed it because of the class. She was able to see the sunlight through the crack of the door, but she wanted to see the real deal. When the teacher saw Margot with tear stains on her face, she immediately came to a realization. She had never seen Margot with any of the kids. Where was she? She was definitely not outside. “M-Margot, you weren’t outside, were you?”, the teacher questioned. The girl just stared out into space, she didn’t know what to say.

Kate decided that she should be a good friend to Jana and help her out. She told Jana that she needed to develop her thoughts more.

Dying was never a good thing, especially when they were someone that you had kwon for such a large percentage of your life. Killed in cold blood was an expression that I knew rather well, it was an expression that I had caused, the amount of people I had shot, stabbed, struggled or whatever else was a huge amount. It was something I wasn’t proud these days, but I use to be so glad when I saw a face of someone I didn’t like lying at the bottom of my feet. The expressions frozen on their face forever. I remember when my dad died, I was eighteen I never got to say goodbye, and the body was lost. Loosing someone wasn’t as bad as seeing everyone else who was still here expression.

After Margot finished reading her poem, the kids accused her of not writing her poem and they forced her into the closet. The students all were jealous of her experience with the

In the novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold by, Gabriel Marguez, the characters lack individualization and the communal values determine the events of the town. The characters in this novel only watch what happens but never try to stop it. The character’s thought that nothing evil could happen when the bishop was coming to their town. Therefore they never believed all the threats that were made toward the main character, Nasr Santiago. The communal values evolve around religious events, having family honor and virginity.

When I was in third grade I got suspended. It was my fault, I got suspended for two things. First reason was I hit my teacher with a flying pencil top eraser. The second reason was because me and my friend was not the most appropriate people in our school. We were always doing something bad.

People often use concepts like religion, honor, and reputation to mask their true intentions and berate others under the façade of a social contract. In both ACOADF and TVOMWEW the townspeople are morally vacuous so they subsequently use religion, honor, and reputation as guises to exploit and torture outsiders. Chronicle of a Death Foretold The tenants of both of the towns in Chronicle of a Death Foretold and TVOMWEW use the cover of religion to act with no morals. Religion in both stories is not regarded as sacred, but instead a tool to further one person or disadvantage another.

Chronicles of a death foretold is a novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. The narrative summarizes the events surrounding the murder of Santiago Nasar, Who is thought to have taken the virginity of Angela Vicario. On her wedding night after discovering she is not a virgin Angela’s husband Bayardo returns her to her house. Angela’s twin brothers find Santiago and kill him eventually. Bayardo came from a rich and wealthy family and the Vicario’s were relatively poor. Angela had no choice but to marry Bayardo even though she did not love him.

"Then why does it look like you are wandering around the hall and pretending to read your book."