Everything I Never Told You Analysis
Death is imminent to everyone, no one can escape from it sadly. Death can be describe as a permanent cessation of all vitals functioning; the end of life. It doesn’t matter if you’re the happiest person, or the poorest, you could be the most powerful beast in the African savannah, and we are all equals when it comes to dying. You don’t take nothing from this world when you die. Only dead memories that sooner or later wanders off like nothing had happen. But what happens to the family that’s left behind once someone decays off, to the unknown. A death in a family can leave many psychological problems in someone mind. It can do many damages through time and lead to more difficulties. One of the problems death bought in the novel “Everything I never told you” by Celeste Ng, was that
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The novel starts off by stating that one of the main characters is dead. The first page of the novel starts by saying “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” After the middle child Lydia disappears and is discovered dead at the bottom of a lake, the Lees will have to revisit painful memories that have contributed to extremely tense and fragile family. Through shifting perspectives and shifts in time, Everything I Never Told You explores the danger in silence and repression and the effects of never voicing how you really feel. Sigmund Freud’s mentions the conscious mind which is being aware and having control thoughts, and pre-conscious mind which is having the ability to recall thoughts and feeling without the sense of repression. He also mentions how the mind is like an iceberg. His theory of consciousness suggested an iceberg diagram– the tip of the iceberg that we see is the conscious mind, with the massive chunk of ice underwater that we couldn’t see from above, the unconscious mind. The tip of the iceberg consists of the Ego and the super-ego. Below the iceberg we see the unconscious mind consist of the Id and with a
The novel starts off by stating that one of the main characters is dead. The first page of the novel starts by saying “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” After the middle child Lydia disappears and is discovered dead at the bottom of a lake, the Lees will have to revisit painful memories that have contributed to extremely tense and fragile family. Through shifting perspectives and shifts in time, Everything I Never Told You explores the danger in silence and repression and the effects of never voicing how you really feel. Sigmund Freud’s mentions the conscious mind which is being aware and having control thoughts, and pre-conscious mind which is having the ability to recall thoughts and feeling without the sense of repression. He also mentions how the mind is like an iceberg. His theory of consciousness suggested an iceberg diagram– the tip of the iceberg that we see is the conscious mind, with the massive chunk of ice underwater that we couldn’t see from above, the unconscious mind. The tip of the iceberg consists of the Ego and the super-ego. Below the iceberg we see the unconscious mind consist of the Id and with a