How Does Death Affect Perception Of Reality

How Death can affect Perception of Reality Perception of reality, what is it? It is how one views the world around them and each persons is different. Many things can alter and affect someone’s perception either negatively or positively and an example that could go both ways is death and the relationship someone may have with it. The authors, Jill McCorkle and Edgar Allen Poe, do a good job of displaying this in their writings. However, the character of Fish is accepting of death, whereas the character of Annabelle Lee is not. Edgar Allen Poe, the author of Annabelle Lee, was known in history as a depressing soul whose writings were dark. This could be because he was exposed to and experienced a large amount of tragedy throughout his life from a young age, which is why the majority of his writings involve death, but everyone has his or her theory. One of his most well known writings, the poem of Annabelle Lee, supports this as he and his soul mate share “…
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This informs the reader that the narrators’ father was a very kind and well like man by everyone as McCorkle also writes, “You have given each of the grandchildren a secret story or joke at some time or another. They all take turns leaning in to kiss you…” (229). Although the author is never specific as to why or how the narrators father is dying, she and her family is given the semi-luxury of having time to say goodbye and truly cherish the last moments with him as the author describes it: “Mom, Jeannie and I sit by your bed and sing all of your favorite songs…You stare vacantly upward, your eyes dry and frozen”(231). His daughters’ perspective of reality changes throughout the story as she remembers all of these memories with her father and the little life lessons he tried to teach her “And now that I am over forty and soon will give your advice to my own children” (231). She also realizes “that rectifying a mistake is sometimes reason enough to exist”