An Hour Or Two Sacred To Sorrow Summary

In An Hour or Two Sacred to Sorrow by Richard Steele, Steele discloses how his early losses made him more tender hearted and aware of death and sorrow. In the beginning, Steele starts by reminiscing the day his father died. Steele as a child, did not understand exactly what was happening but that he should be feeling a sense of sorrow. It was only when his mother sat “weeping alone”, that he knew something was wrong. Steele continues on claiming that as you get older you gain a better understanding of the situation than you did when you were a child. Expressing that memories can cause different emotions when we’re older, Steele also states that we remember the depressing memories more clearly than the pleasant ones. Steele describes a virgin
he meets and her true beauty, and how death struck her suddenly. In continuation, he describes the emotion and feeling he had directly after obtaining the news. Steele and his friends drank the rest of the night, concluding that they needed to remember the positive memories than to forget the tragic events that happened the night before.