Sloth

In the essay “sloth”, there are other emotions present other than grief. In the couple of beginning sentences you can tell that the author of this essay is very sad and deeply hurt, I would also say that they are emotionally lost. The writer also talks about feeling numb, and can’t even feel physical things. The writer talks about losing their fiancé in a car accident, and you can tell in the next couple sentences and how the tone of the essay is going that this accident really flipped this person world around. I feel that the writer had just lost all hope and what and where their life was going. This was such a traumatic accident that this person was just so lost and sad and hurt that they felt numb to everything and that this person can’t come to grips about what happened to their fiancé, and to the reader this is very sad devastating. As this essay goes on it talks about the writers finding a sloth above their head, and just noticing about how slow a sloth really moves. This is a metaphor for the writer realizing how long this grief is going to stick with tem until they can start to move on after their fiancés death. Realization is one of the emotions that are in this essay other than grief. As the writer talks about how slow the sloth really moves, and how unreal it is to them. The writer can’t believe that this creature actually moves this slow all the time, it is in its nature to move that slow, the writer connected the nature of the sloth’s slow movement to grief, and how slow it takes for someone to get over the feelings of grief, especially with the death of a loved one. This essay talks a lot about sadness and how hard it is to deal with the death of a fiancé, a lot of hopes and dreams and now crushed and all this person can feel now is numbness. My favorite part of the essay is when the reader does com to terms with their grief and they finally feel a sense of relief or acceptance in a way. The writer talks bout how slow the sloth moves but even thought it is going to take a long time for it to get where it is going that it will get there. The writer realizes that this is the pace that their grief is going to take, and that this loss of a loved one is going to take a very long time to get over, but once this long, slow time of grief has passed this person can come to terms with what has happened and hopefully try and start a new life for themselves. This essay started out as a gloomy very sad story and then towards the end the reader can kind of feel like there is a light at the end of the tunnel, the writer expresses that even though the times they are going through are very tough now but, eventually things will change for the better.