Response to "The Management of Grief", Bharati Mukherjee -- By David Z. He

I heard a woman who is boiling water tells her story again, if I recall I remembers that she lives the street from mine, she and Satish moved in less than a month ago for a bigger place. They were friendly to neighbor and are liked widely by the society. They made homemade tandoori on their grill and even the white neighbors would stretch their arms desperate for another refill fir the lusture red, charred, juicy Indian chicken cuisine. Their younger daughter danced and sang, they made albums and everyone seemed to enjoy it. I saw my mother bowed and her eyebrows twisted together because of the sorrow of loss—“How many happy faces are gone, why does God give us so much if he plans to take it all away?” she cried out. Kusum, tells her story again, “When I first heard the news, my cousins called from Halifax before the morning, could you imagine? He has already up for prayers and his son overheard about something happened to a plan when he was on a rock channel while reviewing his medical test, “I cried out and paniced”, “what happen, something bad, what do you mean something bad? A hijack.” I’ve never thought it would be something so horrendous like bomb the plan of 364 people inside it. And then he said “sorry, but there is no confirmation of anything yet, check with your neighbors down the streets, lots of them must be on that air plane. As soon as I realized that the Kusums’ have booked their tickets to Vancouver, I panicked, hoping that the accident is just a mechanical mistake that make the planes not able to take off, I’m cheating myself over the brutal reality.

Response to "An Ounce of Cure", Alice Munro by David Z. He

Question: What does the title mean? Why was this saying changed from its original meaning for the title? How is this theme explored?

An ounce of cure, which represents the essential idea of this writing, means that “an ounce of prevention is worth an ounce of cure”. Judging from the main characters’ experience in her child hood, she is in ordeals throughout the story. The abuse using of alcohol to put her sorrow into numbness, also accompanied by guilt for the aftermath, the theme is developed by an incident happened in her child hood while she was babysitting, she got drunk and had to face her parents; from that, she learned that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, the original title seems to value cure more than the prevention, but the truth is a prevention is more important than the cure…