At the age of twelve I saw my first dead body. While walking down the street with my mother's new boyfriend we saw a man lying limp on the sidewalk. ... As I walked closer I broke out into a dead run. ... Within the same year, I was walking down the street by the Hudson River. ... My siblings and I grew up being called vulgar racial slurs and attacked when walking down the street for just being born white and living where we lived. ...

• Word Count: 1595
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"Okay, man, okay" is all that he would say. ... I just told him, "Sure man." ... Walking down the aisle, sweat dripping down, all I wanted to do was get out of there. ... Ryan was dead, killed instantly, when he crossed the yellow line and smashed into a dump truck. ... My friend was not dead, my friend was not dead; I kept saying in my head. ...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

One night while he is coming home he is struck by a car and pronounced dead. ... Pg.129 Through time, Godfrey feels that he will never be accepted into society because he will always be a walking reminder of morality. ... His voyage to the region of death has turned him into a different man. ... "With a view from the country of the dead how could it be otherwise? ... Pg. 159 & 161 He turns to the "icy spelling" using " the orthography of the dead" and devotes much of his time to his new vision. ...

• Word Count: 2022
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Finally, the aboriginal man serves as a final reminder to why family is important. During Quick's time in the country, it is the Aboriginal man who invites him to go home. ... Thus, he goes to work as normal, thinking "today wasn't his day to be worried", and is "dead wrong", losing the fingers of his hand. ... When Fish drowns and is apparently raised from the dead, the fact that their miracle turns sour as Fish is now mentally retarded causes them to lose their faith in God, as Oriel blames God for the tragedy. ... Besides this, Quick also sees "the figure of a man walking upon th...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8

He uses powerful imagery and describes the life of the average man. ... In the second stanza, he describes "wise men" possibly meaning philosophers or authors or any educated man. ... In the fifth stanza, Thomas describes "grave men" meaning those who are very old or very sick and are half dead or walking dead already. ...

• Word Count: 1243
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

First of all, death is not dreamless sleep in a single night because being dead means that there is no waking up after that night. ... Supportively, he states that if death is a journey, to other place, where deads are assembled then he would gladly come there to meet other philosophers, whom he greatly admires. ... Walking the path of life, one would eventually have to face different problems and sins are just inevitable. ... For an example, a man is afraid of height but he's forced to skydive. ... He claims himself to be as a good man and towards the end of the text he says, "no ev...

• Word Count: 1631
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Both the poem's narrator and Kelvin are walking wounded, with Kelvin using his therapy patients similarly to how the narrator uses words to actualize the loss in such a way as to make both it and the value of his pearl a constant presence. Kelvin is depicted walking amongst a city of tombstone-like skyscrapers; Pearl's narrator, prior to falling asleep, is resting atop his pearl's grave. ... Dead men naked they shall be one with the man in the wind and the west moon. ...

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Later, Laura admits to her mother that instead of going to school she "just went walking," worried that she had disappointed Amanda (1413). ... She settles her case by saying that she "married no planter," instead "a telephone man," trapped with her lifelong decision (1439). ... She also tells Laura that she will marry "some nice man," giving Laura a little hope (1415). ... Families that avoid reality and do not accept change will soon feel trapped in a life that has reached a dead end. ...

• Word Count: 1763
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School