DEATH
Death. What is it? Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary definition states that Death is “a permanent cessation of all vital function: end of life.” In a mythological sense Death is “the destroyer of life represented usually as a skeleton with a scythe.” Many words origins are based on an older language than ours. Death for example came from the Old Norse word ‘deyja’ and then was adopted by a Gothic language into the form ‘dauthus’, from there it went to an Old English form ‘death’, second to last it last it became a Mid. English term ‘deeth’. Then finally to the modern word ‘Death’.
Throughout the second semester of my senior year my class and I had the privilege to read an assortment of material. A few of them were “Shooting an Elephant”, “Shakespeare’s Sister”, as well as “The Whale Rider”, and The Giver. In “Shooting an Elephant” a man had been trampled to death by an elephant, and a police man had to kill the elephant. In “Shakespeare’s Sister” it talks about a made up sister that was supposed to be a sibling of Shakespeare. It tells about how the women, after a while, who commits suicide due to that in Old English times women were not supposed to be writers or actresses. She would get feed up with not getting the recognition for her writings. In “The Whale Rider”, a movie, a little girl was part of a way of life, similar to Shakespeare’s sister. She had prayed to her god to send help on a particular matter. It leads up to a little more than a dozen whales being beached. They were dieing until the little girl mounted on top the lead whale which signaled for the other whales to head towards the ocean again. She went out to sea on the whale where she had almost died. And in The Giver Jonas, the main character, witnessed the release of a twin, which means the twin was put to death. Some say that he (Jonas) died at the end of the book when it left off with Jonas one of the memories or was in it.
I researched several sites for the word Death. I came up with five websites. http://www.deathclock.com/ is a website that is supposed to be able to calculate the time of a person’s death. http://www.deathonline.net/ is a site that talks about death as well as rituals. http://www.deathmetal.com/ is a site that is all about death metal music. http://www.near-death.com/ is about near-death experiences and the afterlife. http://www.deardeath.com/ is about anything death related.
Researching online lead me to a site about Edgar Allen Poe. In my opinion Poe is somewhat fascinated with death. Looking through several of his works, I found a particular stanza that interested me the most. It is written like:
“How shall the ritual be read?
The requiem how sung by you
By yours, the evil eye,
By the slanderous tongue
That did to death the innocence that died,
And died so young.”
This interested me the most because it’s hard so believe that children can die at only an early age, and not being able to experience life to its fullest.
Death. What is it? Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary definition states that Death is “a permanent cessation of all vital function: end of life.” In a mythological sense Death is “the destroyer of life represented usually as a skeleton with a scythe.” Many words origins are based on an older language than ours. Death for example came from the Old Norse word ‘deyja’ and then was adopted by a Gothic language into the form ‘dauthus’, from there it went to an Old English form ‘death’, second to last it last it became a Mid. English term ‘deeth’. Then finally to the modern word ‘Death’.
Throughout the second semester of my senior year my class and I had the privilege to read an assortment of material. A few of them were “Shooting an Elephant”, “Shakespeare’s Sister”, as well as “The Whale Rider”, and The Giver. In “Shooting an Elephant” a man had been trampled to death by an elephant, and a police man had to kill the elephant. In “Shakespeare’s Sister” it talks about a made up sister that was supposed to be a sibling of Shakespeare. It tells about how the women, after a while, who commits suicide due to that in Old English times women were not supposed to be writers or actresses. She would get feed up with not getting the recognition for her writings. In “The Whale Rider”, a movie, a little girl was part of a way of life, similar to Shakespeare’s sister. She had prayed to her god to send help on a particular matter. It leads up to a little more than a dozen whales being beached. They were dieing until the little girl mounted on top the lead whale which signaled for the other whales to head towards the ocean again. She went out to sea on the whale where she had almost died. And in The Giver Jonas, the main character, witnessed the release of a twin, which means the twin was put to death. Some say that he (Jonas) died at the end of the book when it left off with Jonas one of the memories or was in it.
I researched several sites for the word Death. I came up with five websites. http://www.deathclock.com/ is a website that is supposed to be able to calculate the time of a person’s death. http://www.deathonline.net/ is a site that talks about death as well as rituals. http://www.deathmetal.com/ is a site that is all about death metal music. http://www.near-death.com/ is about near-death experiences and the afterlife. http://www.deardeath.com/ is about anything death related.
Researching online lead me to a site about Edgar Allen Poe. In my opinion Poe is somewhat fascinated with death. Looking through several of his works, I found a particular stanza that interested me the most. It is written like:
“How shall the ritual be read?
The requiem how sung by you
By yours, the evil eye,
By the slanderous tongue
That did to death the innocence that died,
And died so young.”
This interested me the most because it’s hard so believe that children can die at only an early age, and not being able to experience life to its fullest.
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