Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and LearningState University of New York Press, 2012 M02 1 - 296 páginas In Dying to Teach, Jeffrey Berman confronts the most wrenching loss imaginable: the death of his beloved wife, Barbara. Through four interrelated narratives—how Barbara wrote about her illness in a cancer diary, how he cared for her throughout her illness, how his students reacted to his disclosure that she was dying, and how he responded to her death—Berman explores his efforts to hold on to Barbara precisely as she was letting go of life. Intensely personal, Dying to Teach affirms the power of writing to memorialize loss and work through grief, and demonstrates the importance of death education: teachers and students writing and talking about a subject that, until now, has often been deemed too personal for the classroom. |
Contenido
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2 BARBARAS DEATH | 63 |
3 MY EULOGY FOR BARBARA | 99 |
4 AN OPTIONAL WRITING ASSIGNMENT | 117 |
5 THE OTHER EULOGIES | 165 |
6 STUDENTS READING ABOUT BARBARAS LIFE | 185 |
7 LIFE AFTER BARBARA | 209 |
Appendix | 237 |
Works Cited | 263 |
Index | 273 |
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Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning Jeffrey Berman Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
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Página 69 - If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Página 215 - The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget ; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Página 182 - The LORD saw how great was man's wickedness on earth, and how every plan devised by his mind was nothing but evil all the time. 6] And the LORD regretted that He had made man on earth, and His heart was saddened.
Página 15 - Becker advances the thesis that "the idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity — activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for man.
Página 37 - To be loved to madness — such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
Página 112 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Página 12 - Physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it, bringing about an immediate reversion to a state anterior to language, to the sounds and cries a human being makes before language is learned.
Página 15 - Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.