Essays on Grief

In the novel, Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat there are various themes that are portrayed and symbolized throughout the novel. Amabelle, an orphaned Haitian maid, struggles with the idea of letting go of the past, the tragedy of death, and loss. According to the quote by Barbara Christian, she states, “among the folk who…

Gilgamesh will have to face the five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Acceptance for Gilgamesh seems to be the hardest for him. He had to find a way to adjust to the death of his friend and companion, Enkidu and then come to accept his own morality. Gilgamesh first went through…

It is not easy to get over the trauma of being shot, let alone to forgive the person who is responsible for the shooting. It also depends on the situation in which one is in, in that moment and how he/ she gets out of it. In the case of Gerald Stern, a poet on…

Inside Out is an animated movie geared for a children’s audience that follows a young girl named Riley as she experiences her family’s move across the country. In this paper, I will use the movie to illustrate the theories of Piaget, Erikson, and Kohlberg on Stages of Development and Kubler-Ross on Stages of Grief. We…

Today is a day of great sadness in the literary world. While I was not a personal friend of Amy Bender, she touched me on a personal and emotional level. Her death came unexpectedly and as I watched the story unfold on the news I felt a deep sense of grief. She was an author…

1. About Schmidt is a story of Warren Schmidt who experiences a lot of personal turmoil and emotional pain as he travels down the road of grieving. Schmidt, a retired insurance man, becomes a sponsor to a Tanzanian child to whom he narrates the ups and downs of his life. After his wife suddenly dies…

“Orientation” is written by Daniel Orozco. Daniel Orozco was born in San Francisco in 1957, he still lives in San Francisco and teaches creative writing at Stanford University. “Orientation” was published in The Seattle Review in 1994. “Orientation” starts in medias res, and a person, who could either be female or male, so I’ll go…

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the reader is faced with a wide array of transformation of humans to objects, plants and animals and also the seasonal transformation due to the emotions of the Gods’. Too most of us today, the changing of the seasons is due to the rotation of the earth around the sun. In Ovid’s…

The reason I chose Zoe Ashland is because she is a gorgeous, strong, and independent woman. She keeps her head up even if she’ hurting inside. She is an inspiration for Hispanic descendents. She is very focused and determined. Ashland has been working since the age of 21 . She makes me want to keep…

Historically death was a familiar part of everyday life, in modern day society grieving has become a private affair, fertile ground for the examination of the impact of the application of the ecological and strengths perspective. This essay will investigate the impact of grief on a family, married couple with two preschoolers, having experienced the…