A Grief Observed | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Park - Where the narrator returns after his wife dies.

H.'s Death Bed - Where the narrator and his wife had many discussions.

Lewis's Body - The author describes missing his wife in the only place he could not escape from.

Lewis's Journal - The author uses this regularly over the course of his initial grieving, in order to review the process he goes through and to help others with what they might be able to expect.

Prayer - The author uses this regularly throughout the book, but in the beginning, he...
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