What is loss? Loss is defined as the factor or process of losing something or someone. Loss comes in many different forms. Some examples from the short stories outlined in the following paragraphs are loss of possession, loss of a life, and the loss of what you thought you knew by learning the truth. Loss destroys peoples lives. In the short story “Was it a Dream?” written by Guy De Meapassant, man is mourning after the loss of his beloved wife, only to discover after her death that she was unfaithful to him. The guy is lost because his entire world is turned upside down because not only has he lost his partner, but he's lost the reassurance that was helping him cope by thinking his wife truly did love him even though she didn't. “The Gift …show more content…
In the book “Harveys Dream,” the women Janet loses her daughter to a tragic car accident. Now every now and then Janet wakes up and wonders if it was only a dream that something so unbelievably atrocious could have happened. This point proves that losing someone you love or care about is an extremely terrible and excruciating feeling. In almost all of these short stories that have been read in this ELA class there is something about loss in every single one of them. In the short story “Was it a Dream,” a man who loved this particular women who also just so happened to be his wife at random sadly passed away. After she passed away her lover went to go visit her grave and while he was there the truth on every grave came out and to cut to the point her grave told him that she passed away because she was cheating on him throughout their entire marriage. This was one of the main losses of a person that my eyes came into contact with but one of the other losses is in the story “Harrison Bergeron”. When Harrison Bergeron passes away by being shot to death it obviously has to mean that it messed up a lot of people. First off it messed up his family and ones that loved him but it also messed up the government that Harrison was in. This proves that even if the person is not someone who is intriguing to people it still ruins a lot of aspects to peoples daily lives and it'll still make people have a terrible feeling inside