Tag: loss
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Protected: Of Ambivalence, Loss, and What Seemed Retribution …
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Protected: Of Memories, Loss, and Johnnie Myron Weeks …
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Of Spirals, Parking Garages, and Points of Entry and Identification…
The road that led your protagonist away at the opening of your novel or story brings her or him home again during the final stage, but at a new level of awareness. And since time has moved forward, while the central character has been gone, we could entitle the journey, Back to the Future and…
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Of Spirals, Parking Garages, and Points of Entry and Identification…
The road that took the protagonist away, during the final stage of the novel, brings her or him home again, but at a new level of awareness. And since time has moved forward, while the central character has been gone, we could entitle the journey, Back to the Future and Home Again. The central character…
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Loss
At a loss for what to write? Examine your own losses. Seek out what’s hidden within you. Ever had a drought of faith? What about the death of a loved one, a lover, someone you thought you loved, but realized you didn’t even like?
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Transformation of a Father into a New Man
Edward P. Jones’ A New Man displays the transformation of a man whose daughter runs away from home and does not return. The story opens with fifty-two-year-old Woodrow L. Cunningham arriving home early mid-afternoon, one day in late October to find his fifteen year-old daughter, Elaine, home from school and with two boys in her…
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The Sunday Following Mother’s Day
Edward P. Jones’, The Sunday Following Mother’s Day, chronicles Madeleine William’s search for the reason, or rather the man who killed her mother. The story opens with a description of the silence in which the murder occurred—a night in early April when Madeleine was four-years-old, and her brother, ten. The two not learn of what…