This paper explores how Faulkner employs the minor character Whitfield in As I Lay Dying to belittle simplistic Christianity. ... Whitfield is crossing the river because, yes, he does not want Addie to tell of their fornication, but he also desires to make things right with her family before she dies: "I would say to her husband: "Anse, I have sinned. ... Cora, another symbol of Christianity, picks up on this: "She had never been pure religious, not even after that summer at the camp meeting when brother Whitfield wrestled with her spirit, singled her out and strove with the vanity in her mo...

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Housman's To an Athlete Dying Young. ... /And the name died before the man", reveals the concept that those dying at the peak of their glory or youth are really quite lucky. ... Toni Morrison's The Blues Eye is composed of sections that are labeled by the seasons: autumn, winter, spring, and summer. ... Pecola's baby dies in autumn, the season of harvesting. Summer, being the last chapter in the book, should bring a feeling of relaxation and new life but hatred and self destruction through the "new" eyes of Pecola begs to differ. ...

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He said the money is mine and not yours until I die, to his own daughter. ... To me it seemed like he was happy she died, because now he got all her money. ... If my father ever refused to save my mother from dieing, I would give him a piece of my mind. ... It happened the summer before he was entering college at University of Massachusetts on a full academic scholarship. ... Even though, it was the day her mom died, she has the right to fight with her dad. ...

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He said the money is mine and not yours until I die, to his own daughter. ... To me it seemed like he was happy she died, because now he got all her money. ... If my father ever refused to save my mother from dieing, I would give him a piece of my mind. ... It happened the summer before he was entering college at University of Massachusetts on a full academic scholarship. ... Even though, it was the day her mom died, she has the right to fight with her dad. ...

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While this man is indeed giving her a flower, it is a dying flower. The flower symbolizing their love which is dying because she is married. In the second stanza her find out this other lover has died. ... Not in that death is romantic, but that love is proved through dying. ... Even though the poem is set up to give the reader a beautiful late summer day by mentioning strawberries, you later get a sense of the pain and sadness that is in this graveyard also. ...

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During the Lieutenants suicide, his agony "burned as strong as the summer sun." ... In "Patriotism" Mishima implores soldier of the Imperial troops to live for their country and therefore die for their country. "Ever since her marriage her husbands existence had been her own existence and every breath of his had been a breath drawn by herself," Mishima tells the reader as Shinji is dying. The same is true of Shinjis relationship with Japan, which Mishima sees as dying. ...

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When an individual is experiencing one or more of the stages of dying, they tend to focus on a large amount of negative thoughts and periodically show it with their actions and decisions. ... It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of it (Morrison 14. ... One day during the summer, Sula hears her mother talking to her friends. ... Sometimes there is no reason to point the finger at when someone dies. ... Hannah dies by fire just like her brother, but in her case, accidentally. ...

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However, with all the events that happened during that summer, she was really inspired and she published an autobiographical novel named The Bell Jar. ... She talks about the first two times that she almost died, which has a direct link to Plath, who tried to commit suicide too; once when she consumed sleeping pills and the other time when she had a car accident. She expresses it by saying that she "did it again"(Plath 129), where the pronoun "it" means dying. Moreover, Plath also says "Dying Is an art" (Plath 130), as if it was a performance in front of an audie...

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Terminating life-sustaining treatments is withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments from a patient to let him or her die. ... They wish to die peacefully. ... Police, paramedics, and coroners put a very low priority of investigation of suicide when they discover that the deceased was dying anyway from a terminal illness. ... Her case raised many arguments on the subject of euthanasia and right to die. Another example of euthanasia and the right to die was demonstrated by a 79-year-old man. ...

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Finally, In America Emerson has written a complete essay about immortality, he said "the soul is not born, it does not die; it was not produced from anyone ..."... We can say that this practice as a mean of souls never die as opposite to bodies. ... It's much like the cycle of seasons spring , summer , autumn , and winter , where everyone born in a complete beauty , power and youth ,but through years and passing of time he will change ; he will fight the ravages of time which it carry with it diseases , wrinkles , harms and weakness ; as a result of his desire to live an eternal life ....

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