Finally in paragraph 20 we find our first reference to the title of the story, "A black girl in a black dress was sitting on the trunk of a sedan parked next to Justin’s Ford, laughing into her cell phone. Her face was painted white, and Wayne took her to be a vampire or some…
Bishop, Kyle William. American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking…
In Shih article, death in Dier El-Medina: a physiological assessment, he offers a unique perspective on how funerary practices and beliefs by modern standards were psychologically functional as part of the process of mourning. He makes use of the archeological records to figure out the pattern in which the funeral practices are carried out, so as to assess death under a psychology lens. Due to this assessment, Shih argues that the findings of other authors are wrong in the assessment of Egyptians as being preoccupied with death.…
In book eleven of the Odyssey, Odysseus travels to the realms of the dead where he encounters many ghosts, including a vision of Hercules. This brief moment portrays the tension between the ghosts--anguishing in Hades’ underworld--and Hercules who had the fortune to live with the gods on Mount Olympus in his afterlife. The tension Odysseus witnesses represents the polarity between heaven--symbolized by Hercules--and hell--symbolized by the ghosts. Death is a frequent motif throughout The Odyssey and by negatively portraying it, especially in comparison to Hercules’ afterlife with the gods, Homer shows why characters such as Odysseus struggle so valiantly to avoid it. Chapman’s translation of the Odyssey best captures this friction because he actively describes the ghosts, uses diction that emphasizes the struggle between heaven and hell, and chooses a meter that highlights this struggle.…
In “Memories of a Dead Man Walking” Helen Prejean is completely in denial of capital punishment. She believes that a men who committed a crime and is in prison with a death penalty is still a leaving person and has rights. Such as “ the right not to be tortured” and “the right not be killed”. She also is convinced that this prisoner have decency as well. Prejean also talk about Patrick Sonnier who was sentenced to death penalty, she was his spiritual advisor until he waited for execution. In her essay she says that she noticed that only poor people are selected for death row. Also it is noticeable how personal and serious she takes this condemned prisoner. She was with him until the…
In the film Night of the Living Dead there were many unimaginable, grotesque things that are taking place throughout the film. We know that people are afraid of two things, death and the unknown. Johnny began by badgering his sister, Barbara just like he did when they were children by saying “they’re coming to get you Barbara” while visiting their father’s gravesite. This shows that Barbara, even as an adult, she is afraid of the unknown. Unbeknownst to Johnny, Barbara was actually attacked by the unknown. Johnny jumps on “the thing” to protect his sister. This is the first sighting of a “thing”. The sighting of the thing connotes fear and death. Barbara runs off and finds safety in a house not far from the graveyard. Barbara meets Ben when he enters the house for safety as well. The house is another connotation of safety and warmth. Ben jumps right in to protection mode because Barbara appear to be in a state of shock due to the gory sighting of “the thing” and its attack on her brother.…
Throughout the 1960’s the majority of the news was focused on death. Throughout the 60’s multiple assassinations occurred as well as the start of the Vietnam War. Employment rates were dropping and the nation was in turmoil. The nation’s people were afraid of death and likely began seeing it as unavoidable. They had lost a president and a Civil Rights Leader and many had family and friends who were sent to war. It probably seemed that everyone was doomed and no one was invincible.…
In the short story “Kingdom Come,” author Autumn Spyksma showcases the story of a little girl finding out that death isn't so scary after all. It begins when Rita, the main character, gets in a car crash and is transported to a world of her own in her mind as she is in a coma. In this world she meets a deer, named Henry, who is actually her little brother who passed away of a brain tumor. Henry tries to lead Rita to the kingdom but one night on their journey she is stolen by the Masked Man. A ghost like lion comes out and scares the Masked Man away, and Henry and Rita continue their way to the Kingdom. Once they get to the gates Rita wakes up from her coma and screams her mom’s name before she dies and is declared brain dead. Rita then gets…
Jason Prado Analysis The symbolism in Maximus of Turn’s Sermon 37 provides the readers a way to understand how Jesus offers us salvation and his affection for us. Maximus accomplishes this by telling us the famous myth of Odysseus and through this story he symbolizes an essential object and compares them to that of Jesus and salvation. By doing this, the readers are able to have a better comprehension of how Jesus was able to provide salvation. The myth of Odysseus is well known, and a key part of this storyline was his ability to resist the temptations of the Sirens and continue on this path home. He manages to do so by putting ear wax in his companions’ ears and binding himself to the ship’s mast. Maximus helps us understand how Jesus gives…
October 31st, Day of the Dead, is celebrated in Mexico and other countries by families who have dealt with the grief and pain of loved ones that have passed away. Day of the Dead is a time focused on gatherings of friends and family to pray and remember others who have died (Villalba).…
People enjoy watching movies related to our own destruction or the end of the world. It seems that having the sensation that our destiny is to try to survive from an apocalypses, zombies or monsters is very interesting to people. This sensation is because “monsters can stand as symbols of human vulnerability and crisis, and such they play imaginative foils for thinking about our own responses to menace” (Asma, 2016). The movie “ Dawn of the Dead” is a good example of how a group of people coexisting within a mall tries to deal with each other’s personalities and behaviors, and how they fight against the zombies in order to survive. Also, this movie is a reflection of how people would react towards an event that paralyzes the world. Finally, movies about the destruction of the humanity transmit that most of these events start all of the sudden; In other words, humans are not prepare to deal with it because they did not expect it.…
Getting to the underworld was not a problem he just had to perform certain tasks to get Tiresias to come out and give him his prophecy. He had to dig a trench and pour his libations in it for the dead souls. Once he completed all of his tasks that is when everyone started to appear. The first ghost he recognized was his soldier Elpenor. When Odysseus saw him he was shocked, he could not believe that he was dead. Elpenor groaned and told Odysseus about his death and now he did not get a proper burial. This is essential to ancient greeks because that is the only way a soul can be at ease in their afterlife. Every single ghost Odysseus came in contact with was miserable, angry, and bitter. They all asked about their family (mainly sons) and had nothing positive about themselves. As said by Achilles he “rather be a slave on earth for another man- some dirt poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive- than rule down here over all the breathless bodies”(Homer, Odyssey 265). For a male to say this shows how bad the underworld is; Ancient Greeks were all about their pride and manhood therefore if he rather be a slave to another man take away all of his pride. Also, when Odysseus was leaving the underworld all the spirits kept surrounding him “thousands raising unearth cries, and blanching terror gripped me” (Homer,…
"[D]ealing with a monster, a man without morals," An analysis of morality in The Stranger, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold…
When I read Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the first time, I was initially not impressed by the book. I found the story to be uninteresting and predictable, like something that came from a Spanish soap opera. After reading the first few pages of the book, I already deduced that the man who was murdered in the story was the result of a marriage gone horribly wrong because the bride was not a virgin. That a bride who loses her virginity before marriage is a taboo that still persists in some parts of Latin America. By the time I finished reading the novel, I could not figure out the significance of this book. It was not until I learned more about the role of the characters and what they are supposed to represent, the event Marquez based on the story on, and how his cultural background is…
James Joyce’s “The Dead” is one of the most famous and revered short stories in the English language. It is also one of the least eventful. The majority of the action takes place inside the head of Gabriel Conroy; the events of the evening and a revelation about his wife’s former lover trigger a lengthy (and beautifully written) interior monologue, which eventually culminates in an epiphany. It’s through partaking in Gabriel’s thoughts by the use of free indirect discourse that Joyce unfolds the story of Gabriel’s epiphany and the great themes he wishes to convey: recognition of the passage of time, inevitable death, and what happens to the living. In a film, however, the narrative cannot include thoughts (at least not without the mechanical use of voice-overs), which presents an obvious challenge for John Huston. How does one show the audience the nuances of Gabriel’s character essential to understanding his epiphany, avoid using his thoughts, and still remain faithful to the text? The answer lies in the fact that film and writing are fundamentally different mediums, with vastly different methods of expression. Through ingenious usage of the camera, and subtle changes to the narrative, Huston reveals Gabriel’s superiority complex and lack of emotional intelligence, which allows the audience to understand the epiphany at the conclusion of the film.…