The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar
How death is portrayed in different ways In the short stories, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar and The Death of John death is portrayed in very different ways. In the short story Death of John, they are in a war. It explained when people got injured and had to go to the medics tent, John was a very nice person and told everyone else to go before he did. He put everyone first before him no matter how injured he was. While in M. Valdemar it was a science experiment where they were trying to figure out if they could make you like longer by putting you into hypnotism. So in order to find someone to try this on they needed to find someone that didn't know exactly what was happening so they would sign the contract. In the short story
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It is a natural death because while John is at war people get injured and may even die. So while working he got injured and was in the hospital. The story states, “for he looked a most heroic figure, lying there stately and still as the statue of some young knight asleep upon his tomb”. This explains a natural death from being shot. In the short story M. Valdemar he dies in a very unnatural way. Valdemar dies after a science experiment of trying to mesmerize to make you live longer. The story says, “ His condition remained precisely the same”. This shows that during the hytomizim he stayed in the same state. This is not something that happens normally to people, there aren't usually science experiments on you to see what will happen if they mesmerize you at death. The short story Death of John also is very emotional compared to M. Valdemar. People cared for John because he would always put others before himself. Anytime someone got injured he would tell them to go help himself no matter how injured he himself was hurt. This made it so lots of people cared for him. The story says” Goodbye, John, goodbye!”. This shows how there are people that care enough about him and feel the pain as he dies. So when John was dying lots of people were very close to him making it
It is a natural death because while John is at war people get injured and may even die. So while working he got injured and was in the hospital. The story states, “for he looked a most heroic figure, lying there stately and still as the statue of some young knight asleep upon his tomb”. This explains a natural death from being shot. In the short story M. Valdemar he dies in a very unnatural way. Valdemar dies after a science experiment of trying to mesmerize to make you live longer. The story says, “ His condition remained precisely the same”. This shows that during the hytomizim he stayed in the same state. This is not something that happens normally to people, there aren't usually science experiments on you to see what will happen if they mesmerize you at death. The short story Death of John also is very emotional compared to M. Valdemar. People cared for John because he would always put others before himself. Anytime someone got injured he would tell them to go help himself no matter how injured he himself was hurt. This made it so lots of people cared for him. The story says” Goodbye, John, goodbye!”. This shows how there are people that care enough about him and feel the pain as he dies. So when John was dying lots of people were very close to him making it