Essay #4 Epilogue: Deadkidistan by Michelle Mirsky

This essay attempts to discuss the experiences a woman goes through after dealing with the death of her child Lev. Although a heart-wrenching story and experience aimed for all audiences, I feel as though the overall purpose was no executed well. I think the use of comic relief and several comparisons, such as a the boat and captain metaphor were used very well in Mirsky's favor, however, 5 1/2 pages of grieving was not compensated by the message at the end. The message that the essay attempts to convey is supposed to be something along the lines of, "Don't worry about the bad things, because good things happen everyday!" However, the final paragraph has poorly placed comic relief. The humor with the pun-self-created words were needed to lighten the mood and make the reading more emotionally bearable, but the remark about some people being natural assholes just ruins the mood. Nor is there any specific events that the author leads up to to logically reach this conclusion.

Death is a very bleak subject. I think a lot of people will try to cling on to something to comfort themselves from the fact that someone important to them is now gone. Picture Source:http://skately.com/img/library/logos/large/death-skateboards.png