Day Of The Dead Poem

The Day of the Dead, October 31 to November 2, is a holiday celebrated to remember those who have passed away. Day of the Dead celebrations are generally celebrated in states from Mexico. The holiday is celebrated by making beautifully decorated altars that often contain food, drinks, flowers, and toys (Villalba). The holiday “recognizes death as a natural part of the human experience” (National Geographic). Death is something everyone has to deal with at a point in their lives. It is often found that when someone deals with a death, or faces death itself, it can be an emotional rollercoaster. Death brings a surge of emotions out from within people. Denial, isolation, and bargaining are just a few of these emotions. At the end of it all, acceptance
Shmoop’s Editorial Team discusses in their summary over the poem how “the speaker gives examples of how the force fuels, ‘drives,’ certain natural events and relates the force’s impact in those natural instances to it’s impact and action in his own life.” Some of the certain natural events relating to the speaker include the green fuse that drives the flower, the force which blasts the roots of trees, as well as the the force that dries the streams. All of these, and plenty more, the speaker connects to his own life. Additionally to the poem, the speaker also discusses the connection between “the cycle of life and death, noting that creation and destruction are part of the same process, both for man and nature” (“The Force,” Poetry 100). A similar comment was made by Meyer, “what is evident throughout the rhetorical movement of the poem is not just the connectedness of things but the strange, paradoxical mystery behind the blurred relationship between life and death.” What is grasped through out the comments is that through the same force that things are created, they are also destroyed. Youth and vitality are destroyed by time; at the end death is what
Risking his life to get near the fire is what his happiness is. He wouldn’t be able to live a careful, routine based life. He seeks danger to thrill his life.

Bob Peterson and Pete Docter, the directors of the award winning film Up, have both previously worked on Pixar projects before: Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Wall-E, and Finding Nemo (Charity). Their previous work in Pixar was a success and gave them insight to what they wanted for the film. The film focuses on Carl’s life after Ellie has passed away (Ebert). In order to understand how much of a struggle life after Ellie is for Carl, the backstory to their relationship was needed. A young Carl meets Ellie, the adventures girl. They start their life together as a married couple and deal with the challenges of events that prevent them to getting to their dream place; Paradise Falls. As they get older they create their own adventures together. Following the death of Ellie, Carl becomes “recluse, holds out against the world”