Kate Chopin's View Of Death Essay

There’s a lot of ways to death, because we’re all different in a way of our diet, health, activities, jobs, aging, and many other more. In the story of an hour by Kate Chopin, the author view at the death differently from the man to send rain clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko. Chopin story of death was by health problem, when one of the lines state “Mrs. Millard was afflicted with a heart trouble” 1156. Silko view of death and how they deal with is different from Chopin story because Silko story involved different cultural and religion. It was Indian cultural and religious beliefs and Christianity beliefs. Since the religious are different the way each religious deal with death different. Mrs. Millard was told that her husband has died in the rail road accident by her husband friend Richards. Richard was in the news station when his friend name was in the lists of killed in the railroad

Two brothers found their grandfather death in the sheep camp and both brother first words spoken in the story was “send us rain clouds, Grandfather”, they paint their grandfather face and did what things in Indian traditions. When a catholic priest asks them about their grandfather they told him not to worry. They didn’t tell him the truth because they don’t want other religious involved in their tradition burial. In an Indian tradition neighbor brought foods to funeral house for the grave digger to eat after they had done the grave digging. Louise asks Leon to go ask priest to sprinkle holly water to Teofilo grave. The priest was sad that Leon and Ken didn’t tell him the truth. He only found out Teofilo death when Leon went to ask him to sprinkle holy water to Teofilo grave so that “he won’t be thirsty” was said by Louise, they didn’t want other religious to involved but they let them involved in the end. The priest doesn’t want to follow Leon at first but he changes his mind and follows Leon to the grave