When Emily dies, she goes to her funeral and sits down next to Mrs. Gibbs. She feels distant from the living and yearns to connect with her past. Emily decides to travel back in time against the warnings of the other dead. She chooses the happiest day of her life, her twelfth birthday. When she arrives, it is dawn, and her mother comes down the stairs to prepare breakfast. Her father arrives home from traveling with a special surprise for Emily. Instead of being overjoyed at the happy memory, Emily is disappointed at the way her parents waste their lives. People do not savor life but spend it on frivolous pursuits. They are self-centered and do not understand that life is precious.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
What is the theme of the chapter Lead?
Primo Levi's complex probing of the Holocaust, including his survival of Auschwitz and pre- and post-war life, is organized around indiv...
-
The statement "Development policy needs to be about poor people, not just poor countries," carries a lot of baggage. Let's dis...
-
Primo Levi's complex probing of the Holocaust, including his survival of Auschwitz and pre- and post-war life, is organized around indiv...
-
"Mistaken Identity" is an amusing anecdote recounted by the famous author Mark Twain about an experience he once had while traveli...
-
De Gouges's Declaration of the Rights of Woman was enormously influential. We can see its influences on early English feminist Mary Woll...
-
As if Hamlet were not obsessed enough with death, his uncovering of the skull of Yorick, the court jester from his youth, really sets him of...
-
The difference between Charlie at the beginning and the ending of the story Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes lies in his degree of conte...
No comments:
Post a Comment