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Cremation as a theme in on of George Bernard Shaw's books
Title: Cremation as a theme in on of George Bernard Shaw's books
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 758 | Pages: 3.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cremation as a theme in on of George Bernard Shaw's books
In a written exerpt from a letter about the cremation of his mother, George
Bernard Shaw recalls her "passage" with humor and understanding. The dark humor
associated with the horrid details of disposing of his mother's physical body are eventually
reconciled with an understanding that her spirit lives on. He imagines how she would find
humor in the bizarre event of her own cremation. The quality of humor unites Shaw and
his mother in a …showed first 75 words of 758 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 758 total…of the relationship the narrator had with his mother is clarified by their
shared sense of humor. The reader also feels at this point that their relationship will
survive by humor in memory thereby overcoming the morbid aspects of death. The
narrator has relived the entire experience by retelling it, but he has also reached a new
level knowing his memories will survive and his mother's spirit will live on in a new shared
understanding.
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