On May 25th, 2017, Rhonda woke up and something changed. She couldn’t feel anything. Her heart broke in pieces, and at that moment, life itself was like a dream. She went into the living room and sat on the couch knowing her aunt was gone. Social media was blowing up about how much everyone loved her. Rhonda sobbed and sobbed not knowing what the days will feel like without her here. She could not understand the fact that it was time for her to go. Her aunt fought cancer for ten years and it took her life away. The shopping days they spent together, the conversations they had were gone. Rhonda thought about all the times they were together holding hands and the regrets that ran through her mind. Her aunt’s name was Renee Parks. Renee was
Ellen just felt a distant sadness. Ellen cried just a little bit. Her grandmother was furious because Ellen showed some emotions. She told her to never cry again. After that Ellen becomes scarred for a long time.
The book Kooser shares these stories know that he is not just the only one that goes through this thing like breath of a loved one that was sick. “if you had lived we would all be miserable” and at time we think of what would have happened if our loved one were still alive, he tells his father what would have happen he tells him of how unhappy he would have been, “I miss you every day” this just changed all tone of the poem telling his daddy I still miss you and it doesn 't matter what if you were sick or not. And the last stay he uses in the book and this poem is having a good ending, here is this poem he shares him daddy best time and memory,” today lilacs are blooming in the side yards all over Iowa still welcoming
After the funeral is over Fay returns with her family to Texas for a few days while Laurel finishes saying goodbye to her old house. Fay is very bitter t...
Two sisters, Rose and Bianca, journey through life to find their need for closure after their mother’s death. Rose a responsible, smart, and career driven girl wanted nothing more than to escape the path of her past but in the end, she found the most peace in going back to where all the memories were made. While her sister Bianca died for a trip down memory lane and the hope to communicate with their death mother, when in the end, Bianca had no desire for her past. The girls each got what they wanted out of finally talking with their
A couple years ago my aunt passed away from brain cancer after a long battle. It was extremely tough to bare the loss but it was even worse to see her in that kind of pain. I really could connect when Denny was in denial that Eve was going to pass away. He would just reiterate to himself everyday that Eve will come home soon and everything will go back to the way it was before she became ill. I never thought that my own aunt would actually pass away I always thought she would over come it. She had a long tough battle for about 10 years she fought. It was quite incredible to have that much time with her. Everyday I am incredibly grateful for that time. Eve knew that she was going to die, but did not show it around her loved ones. She did not want to appear weak or close to death to Zoe and especially Denny. When Eve was in hospice she was afraid to die and leave her loved ones behind. She told Enzo, “Get me through tonight, that’s all I need. Protect me. Don’t let it happen tonight. Enzo, please. You’re the only one who can help” (Stein 127). This just shows she needed more time to accept what was going to happen and was not quite ready to let go yet. My aunt was the same way, I believe that she held on so long only for us. Once she knew that we would all be okay and that we did not want to see her in pain anymore that is when she knew that she could let go. Reading this part was very emotional for
Let it take care of itself for now. When she was sixty she had felt very old, finished, and went around making farewell trips to see her children and grandchildren. ” In her final days she recalls about all the struggles she had to go through in life. This story shows
Afterward, she sums it up: "The complete list of losses. There they are. And it helps, I've found, if I can count them off, so to speak”. That same night, when Dede falls asleep, things are different; she does not hear the spirits of her sisters running through the house. Her telling the of the story of a great loss over to herself, honors the memory of sacrifice and she can find the sense of closure with the heroic tragedy of her dear brave sisters.
She passed away from breast cancer a few years ago. Even in life today, cancer can tear a family apart and or could have the opposite effect of bringing a family together. From watching the film, an individual can tell that it brought their family together because they are still celebrating her life here on earth even though she cannot be there with them. When a family member has cancer, whether it be serve and stage three cancer, fighters will hang on with all of their might. Speaking from my own experience, my father had prostate cancer while I was in ninth grade. He got it treated with a surgery and radiation, he then got the clear he was cancer free. In my senior year of high school, my dad kept having tests done and realized his cancer was coming back more rapidly then before. To treat the aggressive cancer, he had six treatments of chemotherapy and the twenty-six treatments of radiation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. While he was doing radiation at Mayo five hours away from our family, he was separated from our family for five weeks and only came home on the weekends. If we did not keep in contact with my dad and go visit him, my family could have easily been torn apart just like the seashell wind chime could break
After establishing this sad and bitter tone, Danticat moves to a more rejoiceful tone when she reminisces about the times when her grandmother would tell her stories: “My grandmother was an old country woman who always felt displaced in the City of Port-au-Prince—where we lived—and had nothing but her patched-up quilts and her stories to console her. She was the one who told me about Anacaona” (137). Danticat then shifts to a more neutral tone when she recalls her grandmother’s peaceful death with her eyes open. She took her grandmother’s death calmly because death was so frequent in Haiti. She further explains, “I have such a strong feeling that death is not the end, that the people we bury are going off to live somewhere else” (138).
Her family life is depicted with contradictions of order and chaos, love and animosity, conventionality and avant-garde. Although the underlying story of her father’s dark secret was troubling, it lends itself to a better understanding of the family dynamics and what was normal for her family. The author doesn’t seem to suggest that her father’s behavior was acceptable or even tolerable. However, the ending of this excerpt leaves the reader with an undeniable sense that the author felt a connection to her father even if it wasn’t one that was desirable. This is best understood with her reaction to his suicide when she states, “But his absence resonated retroactively, echoing back through all the time I knew him. Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb.” (pg. 399)
It is hard to take in the fact that appamma is no longer with us. She had greatly contributed to building me up into the person I am today. There are so many great qualities that I have learned from her, like being gentle, kind, caring, and appreciative to those around you. Although we have cherished many memories together, it is tough to know we won’t share memorable moments anymore. I remember like it was yesterday, when we would watch TV together all night or devour the chocolate bars appamma bought from the pharmacy. The memories of us travelling together still remain fresh in my mind. When I was in kindergarten, it was appamma who dropped and picked me up from school. Even though for the last few years she lacked the ability to cook for
...ed to have helped her along the way. She was able to move on from Goerge and eventually marry someone else. On her deathbed , she advises them to get Goerge. She wants him to know that after all that, she was still happy and able to have a family. This is a bold statement that says she didn’t need him to survive. She is also a very indeoendent woman. She feels she does not a doctor. She is often rude with him. Granny tells the doctor, “Where were you forty years ago when I pulled through milk leg and double pneumonia?”. This is letting him know she doesn’t need him. She can survive without him. Being on your death bed can mentally affect anyone. She just didn’t want to be bothered.
It was almost as if her mother were really there, not dead five years. Perhaps out of fear that she would fade from her thoughts, Raya talked to her everyday. Kept her alive. She hadn’t anticipated a response, but more often than not, she knew what her mother would say, and so she would hear it in that soft, stern voice of hers.
This novel gives the reader great insight about what those who are battling cancer have to go through and how rough it could be on the family. When someone is diagnosed with cancer it effects everyone even
She saw to kids in a bike and took money out and payed them so they could tell her where she had to go next. They pointed to a house that was far but at this point with everything my grandmother had just gone through she felt like she hadn’t felt so close to anything like that house. Her and the guy she was with both walked towards the house and when they got there the people at the house already knew what it was they were there for.