Coping With Loss in Literature Term Paper

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For example, Mr. Aarons leaves his home early, every morning to drive to a construction job in Washington, D.C. The children and Mrs. Aarons milk the family's cow and grow and can fruits and vegetables to provide food for the Aaron family. In spite of all this effort, the family has little or no money for luxuries, such as art supplies for Jess. In contrast, the Burke family comes to the setting of rural Appalachia because they are dissatisfied with their comfortable life in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. Despite their best intentions, they are viewed dismissively as hippies by many of their neighbors. However, much as the children seek a fantasy life in their imaginary kingdom in the book, the adult Burke family was similarly in search of an ideal existence outside of the large cities on the eastern seaboard, searching for a sense of peace and an uncomplicated lifestyle. (Jess, in contrast, seeks peace and solitude in the museum he visits in a city, in an ironic contrast.)

Paterson is thus an author whose stories provide "sound" and "profound" moral guidance in contemporary settings, with a spiritual framework, but without passing judgment upon the characters in a dictatorial fashion.

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She has tolerance for difference, and for the ironic contrasts and complexities of modern, 'real life,' even when her characters are engaged in fantasy. (Lambarski, 2005) but she is still, even when at her most 'realistic' and morally ambiguous, optimistic. At first, the two families live within commuting distance of each other, they seem far apart in outlook and aspirations, only united by their common concern about their children's futures and their common wishes to achieve what is best for their children. But the desire for a fantasy, uncomplicated life outside of real world concerns is common to all the characters, a parallel in both the lives of the adults as well as the children's lives. And the families come to share a common sense of grief at the death of a young girl's life, cut tragically short, too soon. Although the end of the text does not provide a future of perfect harmony for either family, or for Jess in his environment, it still ends on a hopeful note, as Jess and his sister enter the kingdom together, slightly older and much wiser from the weight of their experiences.

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