DEATH

Matt Chappell
Eng 114 (11 TR)
Brent Blackwell
Due: Oct. 17


There are many questions that go unanswered in one’s lifetime. Many of these questions surround death and what happens after one dies. People ponder what happens to them after they die. Well, no one really knows for sure, and that’s why this is one of the only questions that remains unanswered throughout time. Don Delillo offers a few speculations towards what happens in his book White Noise. His characters, Jack and Babette, ask most of the same questions everyone else only thinks about. Delillo entertains the idea of death and what happens after death through the thoughts, feelings, and actions of his characters, actions which describe some of the ways society approaches the act of death.
Death is an inevitable thing. Everything dies. There are no exceptions to this universal rule of death. Most things don’t fear death because they can not comprehend the significance of death; however, people...