The constant death that encircles Janie is a persistent reminder that no one can defend against their finite lifespan, so instead, death should not be feared, or fought in order for new beginnings to arise. The motif of death relates to the book as a whole because both Tea Cake and Jody fear death and try to avoid it, often emotionally and physically harming Janie to their dying breath. A fear of death causes a person to live a life void of true freedom and peace. As Janie’s grandmother nears death she states, “[The] angel [with the] sword is [going to] stop by here”(15). She states that death is a divine angel that arrives only when necessary.
Since her son’s death, Amy had been containing her emotions as much as possible trying to come into terms with her child’s passing. She often spent her days visiting friends and seeking their comfort to keep her mind away from her son. Amy eventually broke down in rage in front of her husband during their confrontation exclaiming, “Friends make pretense of following to the grave, but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand. But the world’s evil. I won’t have grief so if I can change it.
Indeed, death is the only certainty in life. To many, death means pain, suffering, to be forgotten by the beloved ones and most above all the end of hoping for a better tomorrow. On the other hand, Emily Dickinson admires death as a perfect state of calmness of both the mind and soul in her poem “Because Death Couldn’t Stop for Me.” She goes on ahead saying that we cannot go to death but it is death that comes to us. You, I and we, can never escape this intimate and scary thing, Mr. Death, for a matter of fact we owe him. Being afraid of death is not reasonable.
In an entry dated 12 June, 1942, Anne wrote that her journal would serve as a "great support and comfort." She help that in Germany they don’t want this any more for the present days. We need to learn from our errors and that is what we need to focus about. All her family, including her, they were forced to hide if they don’t want to die. They hide and was fine but later they were found by Nazis and they were translated to a consentration camp, by the time all they die except for one, Otto Frank, Anne’s father.
He reads it again, wonders what his family will think, wonders who will tell Mutti. He feels sad for Mutti. He knows his death will be hard on her.” A Lot of quite sad events happened like this in both stories, which built a lot of Tension. Also, we see a flashback of Helmuth dying and saying goodbye to his friends and his family in letters. In “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” on pages 160-161 it says “She stopped as the dark door into Lilith’s Cave opened before them.
Justified Euthanasia “How terrible it is to love something death can touch” (Albus Dumbledore), is something everyone questions to themselves. There is a great desire to avoid it, but death is inescapable. Death approaches over time or unexpectedly and happens to everyone. In hospitals, a patient’s chance of life can hang by a choice. Euthanasia, is common to families who have loved ones in an incurable condition facing the inevitable.
Justified Euthanasia “How terrible it is to love something death can touch” (Albus Dumbledore), is something everyone questions to themselves. There is a great desire to avoid it, but death is inescapable. Death approaches over time or unexpectedly and happens to everyone. In hospitals, a patient’s chance of life can hang by a choice. Euthanasia, is common to families who have loved ones in an incurable condition facing the inevitable.
Howard and Ann have a son named Scotty who is hit by a car and later dies. The theme of loss can be seen through the fear of Howard and Ann and how they react to that fear. A sudden loss, or the possibility of losing someone can be shocking and leave a person confused. Ann and Howard are no different. The couple goes through all the natural emotions that most people would.
She also analyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India. This book covers what is like to be a widow in India. They way that people treat you as a maid, because your husband is dead and there is no one that can watch over you. And how the husbands’ family will not let you get marry once again, because it counts as if you’re cheating on your dead husband. This book has a great information, that I could use in my paper to let the readers understand more about, how there isn’t anything you can do after your husband is dead in some countries.
1.1 PROLOGUE: “I 'm not afraid of being dead. I 'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.” -Pamela Bone Death is one certain thing that has to come to every one whether one wants or not. It does not listen to anyone and it comes when it has to come. Death is certainly painful for everyone. Even a thought of it may engulf a person with fear but think once what will happen if one day all of a sudden you come to know that you are going to die soon because of some deadly disease which has no cure.