There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving.
What is grief?
Grief is an emotion, that everyone will experience, and each one of us needs to find our own way to deal with this emotion. There is no "right" way to grieve, there is no answer to how each one of us will heal from the feelings of sadness, anger, loss and loneliness. There are a lot of reasons to be in grief, but the most intense grief usually comes from the death of a love one. Feelings such as sorrow, sadness, guilt, regret, anxiety, fear and helplessness isn't uncommon to go through after you lost a loved one.
There is no way to know how long the grief will go on. But overtime the intense grief and sorrow will subside. In 1969 Elizabeth Kübler-Ross introduced the 5 stages of grief: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. I think we all can agree that these are stages we go through when we have lost a loved one.
In the short story "No Angel" written by Bernie McGill, in 2010, our main character Annie, goes through grief and loneliness after she lost her father.
The short story is written in first person narrative, we see the story through the main character's eyes whose name is Annie.
The compositions is jumping in time between, present and flashbacks. The story starts in the middle of the story, media res. The first event is the first time Annie sees her father after his death. She sees him in the bathroom, where they are small talking. Right after this we jump right into a new flashback, which is the second time she sees her father after his death. Here we learn a bit more about the main character, we learn about how her mother and father used to take the train. We also learn