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Death is the gift that nobody wants, but unfortunately is forced upon everyone from the moment we take that first breath of life, the inerrable ending to everyone’s story. History is filled with folk tales of people looking for the “cure,” the secret that will free all men from this curse. Tales of a fountain at the far ends of the world that reverses the effects of time to whom ever drink’s from it; stories passed down from generation to generation of people living so long that they become ossified. Sadly, those are all just stories told to help people keep on living the insignificant lives, nobody is excepted from what waits for them in the end. We come to this world alone and that’s how we leave it, most people can only hope that while we were here our life affected somebody and we won’t be forgotten so easily.
Different cultures have different ideologies to help them deal with the imminent passing of their loved ones. From the cultures that embrace and celebrating death as the one final test all men have to take. To the complete opposite, cowering and actively trying to escape deaths grip by any means necessary. But in the end, one thing that both customs share is the undeniable fact that death is simply one of the many things people have no control over. We can control things like; the clothes we wear, the food we eat and we can even actively control whom we choose to love. However we have absolutely no say on when our time in this world is over, some believe some supernatural being has predetermined it. Others however believe that the strong survive and separate himself or herself from weaker individual who will eventually be exterminated by nature.
Nonetheless, there are individuals in this world that do try to dictate...

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... old Chief would never had shown. Emphasizing the way his feet struck the ground as a way of letting the world know how empowered he now was. Finally feeling free from any chains that once held him and getting a high from this feeling. “I been away a long time” (325) the chief finally feels like the man he once was before he expedited all the traumas of war and the personal losses in his life, he was finally free again to be his own man.
Kesey and Burgess are both showing us that sometimes the greatest death a man can experience is from with in, but that from this death comes a new found manhood can be found. This in many ways can be the greatest death anyone can experience because once you have experience such a profound event nothing you have experienced before means anything, everything is new and wonderful and your free to do with your life as you please.

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