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The Doomed in Their Sinking By William H. Gass
“The Doomed in Their Sinking” is more than a short piece of non-fiction by William Gass. William Gass talks about his parents and struggles to recognize the reasons behind suicide. Gass opens this essay, talking about his mother suicide but he is unaware of the reason why his mother did suicide? He not only talks deeply about suicide but also talks about what keeps us going, but questions is it love, beliefs, faith, hope, etc. Gass uses examples and reasons of suicide in this essay. “Definitions of suicide, like definitions of adultery, are invariably normative, and frequently do little more than reflect the shallowest social attitudes, embody the most parochial perspectives”(37-38). Gass uses similes, pathos, ethos, anaphora, and the way his essay written to justify suicide.
As stated by Hix in his book, “It is an essay toward an considerate of suicide, with specific attention paid to suicide and writers from the very start (Hix47). “To find out the reason of suicide, he gives the historical example of renowned peoples like …show more content…
At the last line , Gass closes essay by saying ," Putting one's mother into words...It may have been easier to put her in her grave " .He also uses metaphors in reference to suicide, such as "their thoughts are open razors, their eyes go off like guns,...he own ocean like a message in a bottle so that she sank slowly somewhere as a stone sill sinks beneath the shoes of pilgrims and tourists, not like Plath with pills, or Crane or Woolf with water, Plath again by gas, or Berryman from a
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The Doomed in Their Sinking By William H. Gass
“The Doomed in Their Sinking” is more than a short piece of non-fiction by William Gass. William Gass talks about his parents and struggles to recognize the reasons behind suicide. Gass opens this essay, talking about his mother suicide but he is unaware of the reason why his mother did suicide? He not only talks deeply about suicide but also talks about what keeps us going, but questions is it love, beliefs, faith, hope, etc. Gass uses examples and reasons of suicide in this essay. “Definitions of suicide, like definitions of adultery, are invariably normative, and frequently do little more than reflect the shallowest social attitudes, embody the most parochial perspectives”(37-38). Gass uses similes, pathos, ethos, anaphora, and the way his essay written to justify suicide.
As stated by Hix in his book, “It is an essay toward an considerate of suicide, with specific attention paid to suicide and writers from the very start (Hix47). “To find out the reason of suicide, he gives the historical example of renowned peoples like …show more content…
At the last line , Gass closes essay by saying ," Putting one's mother into words...It may have been easier to put her in her grave " .He also uses metaphors in reference to suicide, such as "their thoughts are open razors, their eyes go off like guns,...he own ocean like a message in a bottle so that she sank slowly somewhere as a stone sill sinks beneath the shoes of pilgrims and tourists, not like Plath with pills, or Crane or Woolf with water, Plath again by gas, or Berryman from a