Poem Analysis: Home Burial

Denial through himself is the hardest fight to win, and Brick is losing. He denies himself for the sake of others trying to please everyone around him instead of taking it and making himself happy. He does not want to feel the disappointment through his family, and he does not want to break Maggie 's heart. All the denial makes life harder than what it should be, and makes one and more people unhappy. Denial will get one nowhere in life, but only further behind in the race one calls

SE Hinton’s book, The Outsiders is about the relationship between two different social classes seen through the tension between two groups of boys. The story is told through the eyes of Ponyboy, a boy living in Oklahoma in the 1960’s. John Steinbeck’s book, Of Mice and Men is set in the Great Depression of the 1930’s on a ranch in Salinas, California. The book features Lennie Small and George Milton, ranch hands who have been friends for a long time who live with the struggles of working on a ranch during the Great Depression. In Hinton’s and Steinbeck’s novels there are many complex relationships.

Edna even says herself, “I would give up the unessential…my money…my life for my children, but not myself.” For her life, Edna realized that means her marriage and physical life. As far as her marriage, Edna was never truly happy with her marriage with Leonce. Furthermore, Edna states she truly cares for her children, but sometimes her search for herself may conflict with this. This then further discourages readers even more due to the fact that this gives insight to her actions, and somewhat justifies them.

She wants everyone to do what she says no ands, ifs, or buts about it. As the story progress towards the end she begins to develop sympathy for the misfit in a plea to save her life. At first she is a little obnoxious to the family and none of the family gets along well, but with death lingering around the corner it makes her develop a new perspective of life. She cries out the name of her son but receives no response. She thinks being a lady and saying "You wouldn 't shoot a lady, would you?"

The tension within their family pushes them more toward depression, making Loman uses death as a release, and Ilyich feels even more painful about his illness. However, the caring and support from the Loman family causes the essential difference between he and Ilyich, death for Loman is nothing to afraid of because part of the reasons he committed suicide is that he believes that it can bring freedom to not only him, but also his family. However, Ivan Ilyich spends a long time trying to accept his family and the misfortune he has encountered, and his death is not as meaningful as it is supposed to be because his family shows him little care about him even after he passed away. Even though the realities Ilyich and Loman has experienced are similar, the love and support from family eventually makes their death have different meaning. While Loman’s suicide is a release for both his family and him, Ilyich’s death is nothing special but the end of his own

This also shows that he is inconsiderate because if someone is a good leader, they usually listen to other inputs and act according to that, but Odysseus was headstrong and wanted to continue the taunting. The next time that Odysseus shows that he is inconsiderate is their stay at Circe’s land. The crew members have families at home which they want to see once again, but Odysseus is reluctant to

While the Yen family dragged down Adeline’s efforts and dreams to create peace within the family, Rex dragged Jeannette’s efforts down. Since Rex was an unstable man who would do anything to gain his children’s respect and support, he tells Jeannette that “I’ll die trying” to quit his drinking problem to

2) So, Mathilde would rather not be around or visit her good friend because when she comes home she feels sorry for herself for she does not have all the things her friend does. When she does this, she is not only affecting herself, she is affecting her husband, and her friend. Her friend does not get to spend time with her anymore, and her husband has to deal with her bad mood.

(1) This quote shows that he is trying to mask his true emotions with anger. His wife is desperately trying to have him open up with her but he is still unable to show his emotions. In addition, Stuart can be seen going on the defensive when asked to share his emotions. “I say, ‘Why did you have to go miles away?’

The pain Antigone was feeling knowing she couldn’t bury her brother was so deep it made her overlook her king and bury him herself not

He knows that he is not a good man. He believes that the punishment he has received didn’t fit his crime. The Misfit also believes that the world would be better off if Jesus didn’t rise from the dead. When the grandmother and him were talking about religion he Although he is not a good man, he does feels a bit of compassion for the grandmother when Bailey makes her cry, he says “Lady… don’t you get upset.

So, because she does not feel she can have someone who will understand her and not punish her for what happened, she does not speak. Her parent’s behavior toward her and each other make herself feel like she is a disappointment. Her mental state of mind is unstable and is struggling to process what happened to her. When her family and the people around her start pulling her down, she does not feel as strong and confident to stand up for herself and to face her so to speak demons. A perfect example of this is “I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist.

A romantic relationship between two people can be complicated, and sometimes even a genuine, loving relationship can become burdensome for one if their partner abandons them in times of adversity. In the novel, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, A man loses the support of his wife and assumes responsibility for his son while in a post-apocalyptic world. The man has a significant relationship with his wife as he is devastated by her death and he gets paranoid when he dreams of her. The un-named woman in the road is the man's wife and the boy's mother.

Anne Sexton’s “The Truth the Dead Know” centers on one person’s struggle to overcome her reservations regarding grief and mortality. The speaker, after having attended the funeral of her father only three months after her mother passed way, indignantly leaves the service. While on a trip to Cape Cod with a loved one, observing the tranquil landscape, she reflects on the role of human connection in her life, and chooses to confront her feelings towards the dead. The speaker, initially bitter and resentful towards the concept of death, eventually comes to feel sympathy for the dead and their inability to be human.

In The Awakening the main women characters I focused on are Edna Pontellier, Adele Ratignolle, and Mademoiselle Reisz. I also made some notes about the lady in black and Mariequita. Edna is a twenty eight year old married woman with two children. Early on in the book it was apparent that she was unhappy with her marriage. Her husband accused her of neglecting their children and not being attentive enough with them.