1. Sutton Hoo
After all of the children Shelley birthed, she was extremely lucky not to have died from complications as her mother did (2). ... During this era, children died young due to diseases and birthing complications; Before she wrote her novel, Shelley had three children who each died at an early age or prematurely, which is similar to the novel since the savage's first victims are children. ... The second was a young woman named Justine Moritz who represents Shelley's daughter Clara, who died at the age of one (Franklin 3). ... Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died on August 9...
The summer was nearly as bad; diseases flourished in these harsh conditions. ... On looking at the chap next to me I felt sick, for green stuff was oozing from the side of his mouth as he died." ... Some were killed outright; others would take days to die from their horrific injuries, lying alone and helpless in the mud. Their pitiful cries as they slowly died were deeply distressing to their comrades back in the trenches who could do nothing to help them. ... They loathed the old men They desired that profiteers should die by poison gas. ...
In the summer of 1846, it was apparent that this harbinger of starvation was consuming each and every farm throughout Ireland. ... Later, a conservative estimate of the death toll to the Irish immigration in 1847 to Canada alone was, "(out of) roughly 100,000 travelers, 25,000, or one in every four, died en route or within six months of arrival to their destination" (Gallagher 211). ...
Donne also attributes his poem religiously, implying upon our fate with death, "One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / and death shall be no more: Death thou shalt die," the thirteenth and fourteenth stanza. ... However, what the people of his town did not know is that status does not provide happiness, because he was unable to live on with his life; in the last stanza "And Richard Cory, one calm summer night / Went home and put a bullet through his head," committed suicide (Auden). ...
During a sea voyage Bethia's father dies, so now they are left without a father and a teacher. ... They strive at school and then Caleb and Joel move on to Harvard, where they both die around graduation time. ... During the summer a whale washes up onto the beach near the settlement. ...
Although the first year almost half of the population died, by 1632, 11 years after the beginning their population was up to 500. ... A first line of nonseparating Puritans led by John Endecott, reached Salem in 1628, and the first installment of the Great Migration, a thousand strong, arrived under John Winthrop in the summer of 1630 (Morgan, 80). ...