A Bird In The House: Death and

            Love and Death scenes of Margret Lauence's A Bird In The House book.
             seen throughout the book there are three types of death; physical death, death of a.
             relationship, the death of a previous life or the death of a dream.
             Vanessa has been through a lot of family deaths. Some of these deaths have been .
             un-preventable, such as the stillborn baby sister of her's. When her grandfather Connor.
             died, it was un-preventable. He died of a stroke and Vanessa wasn't even there. Also,.
             when Mr. Pearl was going through his death, her father was just there to watch him die.
             Vanessa was very inconsiderate about his death, she talked grotesquely about it to her.
             grandfather, just to stand up for her father. Also, there were also some deaths that might.
             have been prevented. For example, her uncle Roderick died because his eye was shot out.
             and it made the war tougher for him. He might not have died if he hadn't lost sight in his.
             eye or he didn't lie about his age and go to war. Just as grandmother Connor might not.
             have died if she was not so stubborn about her heath, she did not believe in altering the.
             divine plan. She felt that if god wanted her heath that way, then there was no point in.
             getting an operation. With that operation she might not have died. Vanessa's father,.
             Ewen, would not have died of from his sickness if he wasn't a doctor. He got his sickness.
             from a patient of his. Vanessa clearly has been through a lot of family deaths.
             There were a lot of deaths of relationships throughout the story. The relationships.
             in this story were either broken up by grandfather Connor interfering or the relationship.
             just didn't last. Vanessa started out by seeing her grandfather Connor interfering and.
             splitting up relationships. First of all when her aunt Edna took home boyfriends, Mr.
             Connor would let them know they were not accepted. When she took Jimmy Lorimer to.
             the brick house, Vanessa's grandfather would argue with him, then go into his basement.