Loss and Healing in The River Warren :: River

Loss and Healing in The River warren Each of us, in time, will experience a heart-stopping reality - the demise or loss of some integrity or something we love. Maybe it will be of a family member or just a pet we dearly cherished, but the feelings we have are completely too real and all too painful. This loss is probably by far the greatest and closely severe emotional trauma we can encounter, and the sense of loss and trouble that follows is a healthy, natural, and important part of healing (Death). In The River rabbit warren by Kent Meyers Jeff Gruber learns to deal with the grief associated with the loss of his younger brother, Chris. This grief is perhaps the strongest of all emotions that bind families together, but it can also be the hardest to overcome. We neer truly get over these feelings we just absorb them into our lives and move on. fit in to Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, there are five basic stages of grief. They are defending team and isolation, an ger, bargaining, depression, and at last acceptance. It is not unusual for people to be lost in one of the first four stages, and until they move on to acceptance their lives may be difficult and even painful (Stages). In The River Warren Jeff Gruber deals with these five stages of grief and finds peace in his life and with his father. The first stage of grief is denial and isolation. After Chriss death, life went on, but it went on in silence when it came to woof up rocks. Chris had loved to hear about the glacier that brought the rocks up, and it was difficult for Jeff and Leo to declare of it. Despite wanting to scream at Leo for working and pretension Chris was dead, Jeff could not. Instead he confides in his wife saying, He never really stopped working, Becca. Just kept on working. Things kept on growing, and he kept on working. When Becca asked him, What should he have done, though? The world didnt end. his repartee was, Didnt it? (Meyers 76) His fathe rs capacity for work bothered Jeff. To him it seemed as though nothing had